Hi

The first link no longer works - I tried to get sound in sinc and broke it.

http://youtu.be/5DRv6e4YelM
(Andy can you delete the first linkin the first thread. Cheers)

This newer version is a bit better but the whole concept is naff.

I would appreciate thoughts, opinions, suggestions and criticism of a possible series of girls only events outlined below. This is very much at an early stage of planning.

The objective behind the idea should be fairly obvious.

Scottish Elite Girls All Play All League
The basics
Individual competition for junior girls who would be eligible to participate in the 2014 Jessica Gilbert Cup for Scotland.

Four leagues of six players.

Series of five round, all play all events over the season to be held at various locations.

Incremental time control. Two day events - All moves in 60 minutes with 30 second increments. Three day events – same as congress the all play all would run alongside.

No charge for participation.

Strong coaching support available at all events.

Player who scores most points over the season will be awarded the Scottish Elite All Play All title.

Initial event
Initial League make-ups based on grading as published in the 2013 grading list.

All play all over a weekend. Prize for Division 1 winner for each weekend event.

Top player in Div 2, Div 3 & Div 4 promoted.

Bottom player in Div 1, Div 2 & Div 3 relegated.

Subsequent events
Division 4 will comprise the player relegated from Division 3 plus the five highest graded, available players not already participating in Divisions 1 to 3 based on live grades one calendar month before the start of the event. In other words players who played in Division 4 in the previous event must qualify again for the fourth division by remaining higher graded on the live list.

Possible dates and possible venues (all to be confirmed – only suggestions)
19-20 Oct Edinburgh Chess Club
2-3 Nov Perth
30 Nov - 1 Dec Stirling
24-26 Jan Ayr - South Ayrshire Congress
8-9 Feb Edinburgh Chess Club
1-2 Mar Edinburgh Chess Club
15-16 Mar Aberdeen
14-27 Apr Easter Event around this time
23-25 May Ayr - Ayr Congress
6-8 Jun Inverness - Highlands and Islands Congress

Hi

On Monday I picked up a smashing digital/vid camera complete with a 8 GB card, battery charger
and batteries for a couple of quid in a second hand shop in Haddington.

Thought I'd try it out.

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I believe that it was Sean Milton who once said to me that "Chess Scotland moves too slowly at times" and I have to agree with that at times.

Neither Andy, Hugh or I have been comfortable with what has been going on recently, we have been asked to moderate more in the last month or so than we have since I took over as moderator nearly 10 years ago. To be blunt we have been in an impossible position.

Hamish and the three of us have got together to discuss what to do to try and bring this all together and we have agreed as a group to the do the following from now on.

"CS Moderators should take the following line until discussion at the AGM

(i) Moderators will remove personal attacks on anyone, whether it be President, Directors,
members or non-members. For the first instance the person will receive a warning. If it persists then the person will be placed in a group that requires their posts to be checked prior to posting

(ii) Every time a post is removed, the moderators should say it has
been removed and why - e.g. offensive, abusive or obnoxious
etc."

Chess Scotland is not above criticism and there are things that have been going wrong that we need to fix. We cannot continue with personal attacks on everyone from the President to non-members and it has to stop.

If you wish to continue posting, it is implied that you agree with the above statement.

I am now going to change the posting statuses of everyone that has been changed recently as we are starting with a clean slate as of today.

I hope everyone agrees with this and we can start to move on and resolve the issues that are holding us back

Regards

Andy Howie

To both sides of this protracted and quite heated debate.

I want you to take 45 mins out and watch an old Star Trek Episode. The details for it are here

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708435/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Watch it and think about the message because that is ultimately where we are heading at the moment

Happy to report after 3 rounds all 19 are off the mark.

Neil Berry knocked over a GM in the first round.

With so many Scots lads there some have played each other
and some can no doubt expect to meet fellow club members again.

Here are the scores so far

Steven Tweedie 1½
Clement Sreeves 2
Iain Swan 1½ (including a draw v GM Eduardo Iturrizaga )
Calum MacQueen 1½
Neil Berry 2 (Including a win over GM Fernando Peralta )
Adam Bemner 2
Andrew Green 1½ (incluing a draw with IM Adrien Demuth )
Duncan Grassie 1
Larry Kirk 1
Daniel Mcgowan 1½
Jonathan Edwards 1½
Graeme Kafka 2
David Oswald 2
Michael Grove 1½
Robbie Coleman 1½ (incluing a draw with GM Jerez Jose Carlos Ibarra)
Hamish Olson 1½
Hugh Brechin 1
Stuart Hayes 1½
David Robertson 1

Grand Prix 2012-2013
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The Grand Prix figures are finalised July 22 after the addition of the 2013 Scottish Championships. Congratulations to the prizewinners. Prizes may be distributed at Marymass - all will be notified.

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Many thanks to our sponsors Chessbase, Everyman Books and New in Chess magazine.

Chessbase have already agreed to continue their long term sponsorship of the competition into next season. We will update sponsorship news when available.

Thanks to programmers Gordon Rattray and Andrew McHarg.

I have received a 'dodgy' email, ostensibly from Donald Wilson (text follows).
I have emailed Donald, in case he was not aware of what's happening.

Hello,

I am sorry for reaching you rather too late due to the situation of things right now.My family and I had a trip visiting Manila Philippines,everything was going on fine until last night when we got attacked by some unknown gunmen. All our money,phones and credit cards was stolen away including some valuable items, It was a terrible experience but the good thing is that they didn't hurt anyone or made away with our passports.

We have reported the incident to the local authorities and the consulate but their response was too casual, we were ask to come back in 2 weeks time for investigations to be made proper,But the truth is we can't wait till then as we have just got our return flight booked and is leaving in few hours from now but presently having problems sorting out our bills here and also getting a cab down to the airport, Right now we're financially strapped due to the unexpected robbery attack, Wondering if you can help us with a quick loan to sort out our bills and get back home. All we need is (£2,000 GBP ) I promise to refund you in full as soon as I return home hopefully tomorrow or next. write back now to let me know what you can do.

Thank You.

DONALD.

The live games that are broadcast at Scottish events can't be viewed by iPads/iPhones presumably because they use flash technology.

I see that Glorney games are going to be shown in 2 separate formats, including a non-flash one. What are the possibilities of this also being introduced for us as well?

Have posts by a moderator been deleted? I thought I saw some earlier today but they seem to have disappeared along with some from a regular contributor.