Results of NEJCA + SJC Chess for Kicks (CFK) event Saturday March 28th 2015 at the Chieftain Hotel, Inverness

U-300
1st Pranav Arcot (Robert Gordon's College) 7/7 (PQ)
2nd= Oliver Rose (Cawdor Primary) 5/7 (Q)
2nd= Ethan Nair (Hopeman Primary) 5/7 (Q)
4th Jake Tickle (Sleat Primary, Skye) 4.5/7 (Q)

Medals: Skye MacKintosh (Newtonmore Primary), Dallas MacKintosh (Newtonmore Primary), James MacKenzie (Cawdor Primary) Cameron Finlaysin-Main (Hopeman Primary)

U-600
1st Oran MacPherson-Raffell (Fettes College) (Q)

U-1000
1st Oishani Dutta (Broomhill) 5/6 (PQ)
2nd Nandini Dutta (St Margarets) 4/6 (Q)

Low entry in U-600 and U-1000 so events combined

PQ, previously qualified, Q, qualified this event.

Allegro
1st Jim Doyle (Phones) 4.5/5
2nd Andrew Newton (St Andrews) 4/5
3rd= Richard Birkett (Inverness) 3.5/5
3rd= David Congalton (Greenwood) 3.5/5

Thanks to the Chieftain Hotel for their sponsorship and co-operation.
Full results and photos at http://www.nejca.co.uk

Hi,

Remember clocks go forward tonight. Dont be late.

AGM at 3pm

Make sure you bring the trophies with you

Lightning tournament is after AGM

See you there

GG

Bon Accord are a few players short for SNCL on Sunday, due to problems with travel. If anyone would like a game, or knows someone who might (Glynis?), please give me a PM or email. Thanks

Has been ages since I submitted a grading request using the CS grading program.

Can't quite remember how I add a new player with no PNUM. Is something like 99999 ?

Team Lightning takes place on Sunday 29 March at Dunfermline immediately after SNCL and AGM. Entry form is on website. Best way to enter is by email to me and pay me at venue.

Because rating chart y-axis starts from zero my chart basically looks like a 1 year massive improvement in 2002 and then flat ever since. It's not true! It would be better if the y-axis range was shown between min and max rating only. Not sure if this is possible to set?

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Maybe we should give this a try .....or did we do that already I forget?

P.S. You may have noticed with no Richardson cup semi to play I am at a complete loss what to do this weekend

Watched this last night. At last a movie where the chess player is the cool guy and not the psycho social misfit. No part for our own J Aitken unfortunately but credos to see C. H. O'D. Alexander for showing the way to get the girl B-)

Chess players should watch this. Also, if you don't know about the chess players who contributed to the amazing achievements at Bletchley Park during WW2 then I recommend you look it up!

During commentary there they mentioned that one of the Accies players is a former Scottish Boys Chess Champion. I didn't catch the name. Anyone know who it is?

Thanks to Keith Rose for the 221 Games!
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and congress info here...
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