Here are the results for the Liverpool Quadrangular

North Scotland

Under 16
1 Andrew Horton ½ v ½ Murad Abdulla
2 Jake Manton 1 v 0 Lennart Koehn
3 Jason Lau 1 v 0 Leo Sani
4 Jordan Lewis ½ v ½ Jamie Underwood
5 James Walsh 1 v 0 Alexander Bold
6 Matthew Walsh 1 v 0 Caitlin Reid
5 1
Under 14
1 Daniel Abbas 1 v 0 Declan Shafi
2 James Moreby 0 v 1 Euan Gray
3 Josh Fernandes 1 v 0 Jack Stewart
4 Nugith Jayawarna ½ v ½ Leston D'Costa
5 Rohan Yesudian 1 v 0 Colin Howie
6 Riyaan Yesudian 1 v 0 Craig Gillies
7 Sam Hayman ½ v ½ Euan Dawson
8 Robert McLean 1 v 0 Michael Doyle
9 Sam Brennan 1 v 0 Callum Smith
10 Carmel Barwick 0 v 1 Stuthi Hegde
7 3
Under 12
1 Kevin Ye 0 v 1 Vagif Ramazanov
2 Mahima
Raghavendra 1 v 0 Ben Volland
3 Jack Nolan ½ v ½ Tom Constance
4 Adhitya Krishna 1 v 0 Rachel Smith
5 Dylan Kamath 0 v 1 Sam Harper
6 Anisha Kamath 0 v 1 Robert Pirrie
7 Harvey Wright 1 v 0 Andrew Ison
8 Lauren Cornwall 0 v 1 John Morrison
9 Ben Dible 1 v 0 Matthew Billcliff
10 Jay Kamath 1 v 0 Default
5½ 4½

Scotland Wales

Under 16
1 Murad Abdulla ½ v ½ Nicholas Evans
2 Lennart Koehn 1 v 0 Owain Davies
3 Leo Sani 1 v 0 Mateusz Sieduszewski
4 Jamie
Underwood ½ v ½ James Baker
5 Alexander Bold 1 v 0 Charles Kett
6 Caitlin Reid 1 v 0 Michael Evans
5 1
Under 14
1 Declan Shafi 1 v 0 Rhys Bennett
2 Euan Gray 0 v 1 Ben Thomas
3 Jack Stewart 0 v 1 Nyasha Katsande
4 Lotan D'Costa 0 v 1 Owen Bennett
5 Colin Howie 0 v 1 Alyssa Wang
6 Craig Gillies 0 v 1 Imogen Camp
7 Euan Dawson ½ v ½ Jamie Bell-Thomas
8 Michael Doyle 0 v 1 Joshua Williams
9 Callum Smith 1 v 0 Guto Neave
10 Stuthi Hegde 0 v 1 Arjun Balasahramaniam
2½ 7½
Under 12
1 Vagif
Ramazanov ½ v ½ Ben Choo Yin
2 Ben Volland ½ v ½ Arjun Bolina
3 Tom Constance 0 v 1 Chirag Guha
4 Rachel Smith 0 v 1 Shayanna Sivarajasingam
5 Sam Harper 1 v 0 Macey Taylor
6 Robert Pirrie 0 v 1 Venetia Sivarajasingam
7 Andrew Ison 1 v 0 Neya Govindaraj
8 John Morrison 1 v 0 Alice Tang
9 Matthew Billcliff 0 v 1 Hugo Fowler
10 Default 0 v 1 Caspian Fowler
4 6

Scotland Midlands

Under 16
1 Murad Abdulla 1 v 0 Sam Herring
2 Lennart Koehn ½ v ½ Harry Croasdale
3 Leo Sani 1 v 0 Eva Ressel
4 Jamie
Underwood 0 v 1 Owen Robinson
5 Alexander Bold ½ v ½ Saaras Mehan
6 Caitlin Reid 0 v 1 James Kearney
3 3
Under 14
1 Declan Shafi 1 v 0 Hari Solomonides
2 Euan Gray ½ v ½ Ashwin Kalyana
3 Jack Stewart ½ v ½ Taylor Pearson
4 Lotan D'Costa 0 v 1 Aloysius Lip
5 Colin Howie 0 v 1 Matthew Fergusson
6 Craig Gilles 0 v 1 Karim Sangha
7 Euan Dawson 0 v 1 Sahrin Ahluwahlia
8 Michael Doyle 0 v 1 Alex Jarvis
9 Callum Smith 0 v 1 Ryan Reed
10 Stuthi Hegde 1 v 0 Ishaan Bedi
3 7
Under 12
1 Vagif
Ramazanov 0 v 1 Jacob Boswell
2 Ben Volland 0 v 1 Jonah Willow
3 Tom Constance 0 v 1 Alex Sheerin
4 Rachel Smith 0 v 1 David Collyer
5 Sam Harper ½ v ½ Andrew Fergusson
6 Robert Pirrie 0 v 1 Helen Constantinou
7 Andrew Ison 0 v 1 Aroun Kalyana
8 John Morrison 1 v 0 Shyan Modi
9 Matthew Billcliff 1 v 0 Kishan Modi
10 Default 0 v 1 Anish Kalyana
2½ 7½


Under 16
Team A B C D Total Posn
Wales xx ½ 0 1 1½ 4th
Midlands 5½ xx 2 3 10½ 2nd
North 6 4 xx 5 15 1st
Scotland 5 3 1 xx 9 3rd

Under 14
Team A B C D Total Posn
Wales xx 6½ 5 7½ 19 1st
Midlands 3½ xx 5 7 15½ 3rd
North 5 5 xx 7 17 2nd
Scotland 2½ 3 3 xx 8½ 4th

Under 12
Team A B C D Total Posn
Wales xx 7½ 7½ 6 21 1st
Midlands 2½ xx 6½ 7½ 16½ 2nd
North 2½ 3½ xx 5½ 11½ 3rd
Scotland 4 2½ 4½ xx 11 4th

Thanks to Matt Turner, Jonny Edwards, Alex Gillies and Alastair Dawson for helping with coaching, David Congalton for helping me along the way and to all the players and parents who came.

Calum

Morning Everyone.

I have been having problems with the noticeboard this morning. I have been trying to remove some posts from the thread and getting loads of SQL errors. Instead of removing a couple of posts, it has deleted the whole thread!

Please accept my apologies for this. Not sure why it happened as I had several posts marked for moving to the deleted forum.

46 played today at Airdrie in three sections.

Thanks to the rest of the team for giving up their time to make this happen.


Michael Hanley will add results to this thread once he has done grading - probably by midnight tonight.

Anyone desperate to know their tournament grading performance before Dougie does the Wednesday update - Send me a mail or private message and I'll let you know asap.

Should this count as Scots abroad? Discuss. No, on second thoughts better not.

Anyway, there are six Scots playing in the FIDE Open - Clement Sreeves, Neil Berry, Paul Roberts, Andrew Green, Mike Groves and Douglas McKerracher. I had intended to go myself but family issues prevented me.

Douglas had a great result in round 1, beating Estonian IM Kalle Kirk (2435) in what was the biggest upset of the first round. Neil and Andrew are also on 1/1.

Thanks to AWIC for games from Oban 2013 - available here:-
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.chessscotland.com/gamedownload/games.htm">http://www.chessscotland.com/gamedownload/games.htm</a><!-- m -->

It is with great regret that we have been informed that Alan Birnie of Irvine and Greenwood chess clubs passed away last night.

There is no further information about the circumstances to be had at this time.

We hope to give details of the funeral arrangements on here when that information becomes available.

Our thoughts and condolences are with Alan's family at this difficult time.

As one of Alan's many friends of long standing I am saddened by his passing. He was a keen, competitive chess player and fun to socialise with. He will be greatly missed.

I am pleased to confirm that the Commonwealth Championships will be held in Glasgow from 30 June - 8 July 2014.

The playing venue will be in Cathedral Street in the Centre of Glasgow so ideal for commuting.

This is slightly earlier than normal but is to allow those wishing to stay to do so at reasonable costs. People are arriving early for the Commonwealth Games (athletic) starting on 23rd July and this is reflected in hotel prices and availability during the normal dates.

An entry form will be available in the very near future.

The main event will take place from 1.45pm daily. Junior Championships will be held from 9am.

Alex

The draw for the group stages of the London Chess Classic can be seen here
http://www.londonchessclassic.com/super16_draw.htm

Our own Jonathan Rowson (late replacement for Magnus Carlsen) has landed a corker of a group with Kramnik, Svidler and Sadler =o Good luck with that Jonathan!

I was playing a game earlier today and this position came up with black to play (bottom left square is a1). On initial glance it looked like it should be a draw. But it's actually a win by force for black. 8)

[pos]8/6Kp/7P/3k4/8/5n2/8/8 b - - 0 59[/pos]

At the moment someone who was not born in Scotland and who has never lived in Scotland but has a Scottish grandparent is ineligible to play for Scotland. This rule is likely to be reviewed at the council meeting or AGM in January. If it is changed then Matthew Turner will be immediately eligible to represent Scotland. To help me decide on this as a selector, I want people to email me with an answer to the following question by January 11 (a separate vote is being held among the 2300+ players).
Q Do you think that Matthew Turner should be considered for selection for the 2014 Olympiad ? Answer YES or NO