For those of you that aren't aware the 3rd Scottish Blitz is running again on the Saturday 31st May - entries are open and we hope to see you there! See the website <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.scottishblitz.org">http://www.scottishblitz.org</a><!-- m --> to enter...

Jonathan and I have been working hard to try and gain sponsorship for the event and we are asking for your help. We have completed a sponsorship report and are kindly asking you to share with the right people in your company! The sponsorship report can be found at:

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Please share with anyone who you think might be interested and we hope to see you at the end of May!

HI,

The girls and boys events were all good (SC and SJC) and SJC even did some age ones this year - again, all good.

That said, how about a Scottish "Junior" weekend even that simply combines the whole girl, boy and age championships - to be honest (simply compare) we get some asymmetry, so a joined up event would very possibly work better. Girl/Boy prizes can be awarded per section/age group as well as overall winner. You could do the same for Allegro (1 day event). That would then give us a very clear picture across age groups, a joined up girl/boy competition and wider scope for the girls across all the age groups - very likely attract more. Less logistical difficulties too.

Worth a though - I've already chatted with David on it and in principle he can see the idea. Worth a forum review though maybe to see if others feel the same way.

Entry form for this event is now available via the CS calendar.

Entry form for this event is now available via the CS calendar.

The GP tables are not displaying at the moment - we are investigating.

...are now posted on the site.
But, can anyone tell me how a player graded 1772 was playing in the under 1700 tournament?

A technical question if I may.....

I am trying to 'output' my ChessBase games into a 'text' version. I need the annotations/text to be automatically bracketed thus {blahblahblah} in order for the annotations to show up in the correct format for pgn4web. Does anyone know how to do this? The developer of pgn4web told me that ChessBase should do it automatically, but it doesn't seem to I could re-bracket every phrase or word individually, but life is too short!

An example to illustrate: this is what I get from the CB output -

26...exd6?? 27.Re1! and now I got that horrible sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach 27...Rc8 28.Rec1 Rc5 29.Rb2 Bf5 30.Rxc5?! Now I began to have hope again, but hope is a dangerous virtue in chess; it can rise higher than the position allows for. 30.Rc4 was better]

This is what I need it to do automatically -

26...exd6?? 27.Re1! {and now I got that horrible sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach.} 27...Rc8 28.Rec1 Rc5 29.Rb2 Bf5 30.Rxc5?! {Now I began to have hope again, but hope is a dangerous virtue in chess; it can rise higher than the position allows for.} 30.Rc4 {was better}]

Just noticed that the top seed in the Edinburgh Knights section is a boy from England aged seven. I understand there may not be live boards but would be good to see some of his games.

In the third round yesterday, Scotland 1 drew 2-2 with Austria Vienna 2 with Ian Robertson winning and Peter Jamieson losing with the other two games drawn. Scotland 2 lost by 1-3 to Austria - Neiderosterrich, with Alastair White drawing on board 1 and my opponent drawing by perpetual check after I missed best winning sacrifice in time scramble both against higher rated players with Douglas McKerracher and Ian Marks losing.

Anyone know if there will be live games from Edinburgh?