The European Individual Championship 2014 will be held on March 2-15, 2014 in Yerevan, Armenia. The venue of the championship is Yerevan Business Centre.
If anyone wishes to be the CS nomination please contact me by November 18

Alex has been kind enough to upload the new laws of chess that come into force on 1 July, 2014 on the Chess Arbiters Association Website http://www.chessarbitersassociation.co.u...ss2014.pdf

Some interesting ideas!

Quote:The Laws of Chess have two parts: 1. Basic Rules of Play and 2. Competition Rules

Quote:4.6 The act of promotion may be performed in various ways:
1. the pawn does not have to be placed on the square of arrival,

Quote:6.7 a. The rules of a competition shall specify in advance a default time. Any player who
arrives at the chessboard after the default time shall lose the game unless the
arbiter decides otherwise.

Quote:7.5 a ...If the player has moved a pawn to the furthest distant rank, pressed the clock, but
not replaced the pawn with a new piece, the move is illegal. The pawn shall be
replaced by a queen of the same colour as the pawn.

Quote:7.5 b b. After the action taken under Article 7.5.a, for the first completed illegal move by a
player the arbiter shall give two minutes extra time to his opponent; for the second
completed illegal move by the same player the arbiter shall declare the game lost
by this player. However, the game is drawn if the position is such that the
opponent cannot checkmate the player’s king by any possible series of legal
moves.

Quote:This adjustment of the clock shall not
apply to a player with a disability.

Quote:9.6 If one or both of the following occur(s) then the game is drawn:
a. the same position has appeared, as in 9.2b, for at least five consecutive alternate
moves by each player.
b. the last 75 moves have been completed by each player without the movement of
any pawn and without any capture.

Quote:11.2 The ‘playing venue’ is defined as the ‘playing area’, rest rooms, toilets, refreshment
area, area set aside for smoking and other places as designated by the arbiter.
The playing area is defined as the place where the games of a competition are played.
Only with the permission of the arbiter can
a. a player leave the playing venue.
b. the player having the move be allowed to leave the playing area.
c. A person who is neither a players nor arbiter be allowed access to the playing
area.

Quote:11.3 b b. During play, a player is forbidden to have a mobile phone and/or other electronic
means of communication in the playing venue. If it is evident that a player
brought such a device into the playing venue, he shall lose the game. The
opponent shall win.

Quote:The rules of a competition may specify a different, less severe, penalty.

Quote:The arbiter may require the player to allow his clothes, bags or other items to be
inspected, in private. The arbiter or a person authorised by the arbiter shall inspect
the player and shall be of the same gender as the player. If a player refuses to
cooperate with these obligations, the arbiter shall take measures in accordance
with Article 12.9.

Quote:11.9 A player shall have the right to request from the arbiter an explanation of particular
points in the Laws of Chess

Quote:12.9 Options available to the arbiter concerning penalties:
g. a fine announced in advance

Quote:G.4 If the player having the move has less than two minutes left on his clock, he may
request that a time delay or cumulative time of an extra five seconds be introduced for
both players, if possible. The clocks shall then be set with the extra time; the opponent
shall be awarded two extra minutes and the game shall continue.

Quote:fair play: 12.2a. Whether justice has been done has sometimes to be considered when an
arbiter finds that the Laws are inadequate.

Mikey is playing in the Bellvue Chess tournament in Alcudia.

Event website: http://www.bellevuechess.com/index.php?l...&pg=inicio

Mikey's blog: http://steelchessticles.blogspot.se/
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Results are in the Tournaments section

Open

1st – Gabriel Petesch
2nd = Stephen Burns-Mannion, George Neave
Under 2000 – Jim Doyle, George Pyrich
Under 1850 – Stephen Robinson

Challengers

1st = Joe Parks, Jeremy Mitchell
3rd = Daniel Thomas, Phil Thomas, Stephen Smith
3rd/U1700 – Pat McGovern

Major

1st – Ray Noble
2nd = John Pearston, Jan Baron-Majeric
Under 1460 – Euan Gray
Under 1350 – Nicholas Straw
Under 16 – Jack Stewart

Minor

1st - Ronnie Cutting
2nd – Gilbert Alomenu
3rd/U1100/Under 16 – Colin Howie, Thomas Jose, Ben Volland, Leston D’Costa, Robert Mathieson, Robbie McLeod
Under 850 – Agnijo Bannerjee
Primary – Nick Bremner, Benjamin Ridge

Giantkiller – Nick Bremner (620 points)

Hi Folks,

Okay entry date is now passed.
These are the teams I have. If you are not listed and want to enter please contact me ASAP

Perth (new)
SCDAD (new)
Wandering Dragons
Forth Valley A
Inverclyde Central
Corstorphine
Hamilton A,B
Dumfries
Pentland Hills
Edinburgh 1,2
Dundee City A,B
Dundee City Juniors
Kilmarnock
CSBOS 1,2
Cumbernauld
Prestwick (new)
Irvine
Stepps Warriors (new)
Thistles (new)
Woodmill Warriors
Giffnock
Edinburgh West
Dunfermline Knights
Dunfermline Knaves
North Ayrshire Crusaders
Lanark

Thirty teams but I still have some regular teams missing.

Look forward to hearing from you

On the 20th October, I will fly out to Dresden for the 1st World Disabled Chess Championships.
There are 89 players representing 19 countries. I will be the only representative from any of the home nations.
All three World Champions ( Blind, Deaf and Physically disabled) will be present at this event. The highest rated entrant is GM Thomas Luther from Germany at 2559.
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I will return return to Scotland on the 29th October.

Will Dundee have a live games broadcast this year?

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See the reference above to an old (extremely generous) review by "The Bad Master" - scroll to Chess Note 8323. Does anyone have a clue as to the lifetime scores between Fairhurst and Aitken? I don't but I imagine that it would be close. At any rate, they were both very fine players in Scotland's past.

Can't believe this old book (for which the late M D Thornton did most of the hard research work, I must add) is now virtually 30 years old. Guess the next book comes 20 years hence ... the 150th Anniversary!

Edinburgh and Edinburgh West are representing Scotland in the European Club Cup, Rhodes, October 19-27.

http://euro2013.chessdom.com/clubs/clubs-open/

You have to scroll a bit to see us, we're seeded 44th and 47th!

Can't wait!