A little over a week to go now, so this is just a little reminder:

• the prize fund this year is significantly higher than last year
• Andrew Green will be here to coach juniors during Sat and Sun
• The City Quay apartment rooms are still available. I have had enquiries about a couple of rooms but that still leaves two: £60 - £80 for the two nights. All monies received for letting these rooms go to congress funds so if you are looking for a room please consider this option. Info – http://www.dundee-congress.co.uk/cityQuay.htm - contact me directly if interested – <!-- e --><a href="mailto:director@dundee-congress.co.uk">director@dundee-congress.co.uk</a><!-- e -->
• Cheapest Travelodge = Strathmore Ave at £98 for the two nights; the two Travel Inns close to the venue are £140 for the two nights

Keith

Results of NEJCA Deeside event at Banchory Town Hall Sunday September 29th 2013
A new venue and area for the first NEJCA of the season - a day out on Royal Deeside!

Under-300
1st Stewart Flavill (Aboyne Primary) 6/7
2nd Rishi Ravishankar (Hill of Banchory Primary) 5.5/7
3rd Lewis Elrick (Kemnay Primary) 5/97
Best Girl Amelie Flavill (Aboyne Primary) 4.5/7

Under-750
Ist Atharva Dabholkar (Robert Gordons) 6/6
2nd Clarence Wei (Lathallan) 4.5/6
3rd= Robbie Burnett (Laurencekirk) 4/6
3rd= Ross Greig (Albyn School) 4/6
Best Girls Oishini Dutta & Nandini Dutta both 3/6

Over 750
1st Nicholas Straw (Banchory Academy) 6/6
2nd Tariq Pasha (Albyn School) 4.5/6
3rd Dylan Bodrell (Harlaw Academy) 4/6

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

The Euro Youth starts tomorrow in Budva, Montonegro.

Details of our team going can be found here.

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and the main site is

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Shaping up to be a good tournament with a strong bunch of players we're sending. I've got a feeling there is going to be a few big results coming Scotland's way!

It is easy to keep track of our results on

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which shows all the squad at the same time.

Best of luck to all, I'm sure you'll do us proud!

It looks as if we have as many entries as can be taken for the Poly Quickplay on Thur 27 Sept, so I'm afraid we can't guarantee that anyone turning up without having entered in advance would be able to play. The room is not as large as we'd like.

Does anyone know what progress has been made in the forming of this group?
Nothing has been heard since the AGM.

All the board links

Live Games

Round 1 Flash Multiboard Mobile
Round 2 Flash Multiboard Mobile
Round 3 Flash Multiboard Mobile
Round 4 Flash Multiboard Mobile
Round 5 Flash Multiboard Mobile

Might be going to Amsterdam in the next couple of weeks for work. If I get some free time I want to go and visit the Chess Museum. Anyone been there already and what did you think?

I am delighted to announce a partnership between Chessity and ChessScotland. As a part of this partnership Chessity will provide a group discount to Scottish players.

Chessity is a tactics trainer site that allows users to train their tactics by playing games, but to progress in the games you have to solve tactics. It also incorporates the famous Steps method used by the Dutch to teach their world-beating juniors. The site is clean, easy to use and in my opinion the best tactics trainer available on the net. The site is not limited to the computer either and it is possible to train using smart devices.

It is free to sign up and you can try the site out for yourself at <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.chessity.com">http://www.chessity.com</a><!-- m -->. To get the full benefits of the site you have to become a premium member. If the following targets are hit the cost will be as follows to Scottish chess players:

Number of users: Premium member price:
1 member and normal price: 35 euro
10 – 100 members: 18 euro
100 – 1000 members: 15 euro
1000 – 5000 members : 12 euro

If you are interested in this discount and would like a premium account for a year, please send an email to <!-- e --><a href="mailto:andrew.d.green@me.com">andrew.d.green@me.com</a><!-- e --> before the 10th of October. I highly recommend this site and hope you all enjoy it.

Badgers Brook are putting two teams into the above this coming season. We have 7 of the required 8 confirmed so far, and if we cannot fill the remaining space with someone from our club, we'll be looking to offer the opportunity to play for us to someone from another club.

Due to the grading restrictions the player would need to be graded no higher than 1700 allegro. The event takes place on the second Thursday of every month in Roslin from about 1900 hrs.

If anyone is interested then please send me a PM to let me know.

Thanks
Andrew

Held in St Margaret's Church Hall Airdrie, 54 entries, including 18 Secondary.

Results- <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.hamiltonjuniorchessclub.co.uk/2013/09/18/hamilton-junior-congress-15th-september-results/">http://www.hamiltonjuniorchessclub.co.u ... r-results/</a><!-- m -->