A new allegro event for the calendar and diaries. Ideal for all players, especially those seeking last minute Grand Prix points. The allegro will take place on Saturday, May 17th at the Mercure Hotel in Livingston, which is easily accessible from Edinburgh, Glasgow and Central Scotland. The hotel is close to the towns main shopping area.

Play will most likely be 5 rounds from 10am until 4.30pm. Further details, entry forms and so on will appear soon.

Entry for CW remains at £60 until the end of this month. Get your entries in to me ASAP please to assure you discount. Payment to Chess Scotland -- entry fee either written to me or use the email address on the entry form. Look forward to hearing from you.

GG

Just a reminder SNCL is on next week 23rd Feb. The venue is being refurbished so we are in the other rooms not the main hall. However, I am sure everyone will fit okay.

GG

Getting a bit concerned about our neighbors. Hope they can resolve things soon

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The first entries for the ESTC in Sibenik, Croatia, from 1-10 April 2014 are shown in the following website:-

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I am looking for further information about Frank Slotopolski [sometimes: Slotopolski Slater], born 1912, died 1987. There does not seem to have been an obituary in Scottish Chess.

Frank was associated with the Glasgow Jewish Institute CC, and the Glasgow League.
He donated the Slotopolski Trophy/Shield to the League. Can anyone confirm information about this trophy and/or supply a photograph? What was the trophy for? I have a reference from a Jewish Institute Yearbook (1954-55) that mentions a shield being given to the Glasgow Chess League to be used by the Third Division league members as their annual trophy. Could this be the Slotopolski Shield?

Other notes:
In 1950 his address was 330 Cathcart Rd, Glasgow (Southside).
He had a barber's shop in Bridgeton.

Thanks.
Alan McGowan
Historian, Chess Scotland

Results of NEJCA + SJC Chess for Kicks (CFK) event Saturday February 1st 2014 at Stonehaven Town Hall
Qualifying event

U-300
1st Jakub Gryla (Laurencekirk 7/7
2nd Collin Campbell (Albyn) 5.5/7
3rd Pranav Maganti (Robert Gordon's College) 5/7
3rd=( medal) Fadia Bedawi (Albyn) 5/7

U-600
1st Rafal Wilowski (Banchory) 5.5/6
2nd Thomas Roulson (Albyn School) 4/6
3rd Oishani Dutta (Bromhill) 4/6
4th Keith Murray (Laurencekirk) 4/6
(order of 2nd to 4th decided by play-off)

U-1000
1st Matthew Nelson (Laurencekirk) 4/6
2nd Anoop Babu (Aberdeen Grammar) 4/6
3rd Clarence Wei (Lathallan School) 3/6
(he defeated all others on 3/6)
4th = Nicholas Winter (Lathallan School) 3/6
Fraser Nelson (Laurencekirk) 3/6
Atharva Dabholkar (Robert Gordons) 3/6
All the above players qualify for the SJC Chess for Kicks final (Saturday June 1st, venue to be confirmed)

Junior/Adult Allegro
1st Calum MacQueen (Edinburgh) 5/5
2nd David Grant (Stonehaven) 4/5
3rd Graham McKay (Stonehaven) 3.5/5

Best Junior Prizes
Leonardo Sani (Castlehill) 3.5/5
Nicholas Straw (Banchory Academy/Newmachar) 3.5/5

As usual, full results and photos at http://www.nejca.co.uk
Gerald Lobley

Following on from the South Ayrshire event I have made a few changes to the Ayr Congress Entry Form to incorporate some of the things that I think worked well.

The website has been updated with the revised entry form and information for the congress which takes place during the late May Bank Holiday.

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Hi Guys
positive notes here - what would we like to see improved or changed in chess in Scotland let's see what ideas we can put forward here. I'll start the ball rolling, I would like the chess Scotland website linked to a site where we can play online chess within Scotland, for example either play opponents locally or in the highlands. Perhaps an inter-county tournament or whatever. Maybe a centrally structured training module for juniors different to what we have today. Let's get the ideas going.

Morning Folks

I am looking to organise a combined World Record attempt and Charity Chess Tournament later in the year (Sept / Oct/ Nov) and would like to hear your view on it.

During the world record attempt we are thinking of running a 2 day congress, 5 Rounds. Entry would be a donation to the charity fund.

Prizes would most likely be trophies and donated spot prizes.

Would there be an appetite to play in something like this?

Thoughts?