Lanarkshire County Championships held in St Margarets Church Hall Airdrie on Sunday 17th Feb

Primary 5 and Under Championship:
1st Sam Harper Lanark CC 7/7
2nd Matthew Walls St Marys Lanark 5.5/7
3rd Louis McGarrity St Brides Bothwell 4.5/5

Medals for 50% and above:
4/7 Aiden Healy St Marys Hamilton
Jack McKie St Josephs Blantyre
Hannah Wallace Cumbernauld CC
Thomas Campbell St Brides Bothwell

Primary Championship:
1st Joe McKie St Josephs Blantyre 6/7
2nd Martin Lang Hallside Cambuslang 5/7
3rd Michael Campbell St Brides Bothwell 5/7

Medals for 50% and above:
4/7 Callum Walker St Brides Bothwell
Darren Leung Hamilton College
3.5/7 Hannah Ord Hamilton College
Lucy Docherty St Brides Bothwell
Beth McAlister St Anthonys Rutherglen
Ryan Cunningham Bothwell

Secondary Championships:
1st Colin Howie East Kilbride CC 8/8
2nd Andrew Gillies Hamilton 6/8
3rd= Craig Gillies Hamilton
Darren Gillies Hamilton

Adult Championship:
1st Patrick Coffey Hamilton 6/6
2nd= Alex Gillies Crowwood 4/6
Jimmy Doyle Crowwood
Alan Jelfs East Kilbride

Grading Prize:
Andrew McCusker Hamilton 3/6

Michael.

OK I'm going to be a human target for posting this but....

I have heard umpteen arguments about the definition of playing strength using live grades instead of published grades, when and how to use them etc. Some people are of the opinion that published grades are out of date too quickly or that published grades should be strictly adhered to with the problem that different teams/different clubs apply different criteria, some using published grades, others using live grades. Surely all clubs should use the same criteria

May I suggest that either the published yearly grade become obsolete or that its updated more frequently than once per year. That way it would be fairer as then we would be happier using the same criteria

....Someone 8 pawns up lose?

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The Duck?

I introduced The Duck as a sidekick about 18 months ago.
It now has it's own fan club and is off on a world tour being posted from chess player
to chess player around the world. Last week he was at the Marshall Chess Club.

Posting on behalf of Andrzej Jakimiuk:
Chess tournament rapid
"There can be only one"
5 rounds 10 mins per player per game
Round 1 mon 18th feb
Rd2 mon 25th
Rd3 mon 4th
Rd4 mon 11th
Rd5 mon 18th
All starting at 7.30pm
Entry fee £5
Prize dependent on no. of entrants
Entrants limited to 14 players.
Book your place
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Prize for first only
Location - newington fish bar 23 south clerk street (downstairs)

A new party in Scotland for post 2014?

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It would appear that the Cameronian philosophy of crushing the little guy and suppression of free speech has permeated deeper into our society than you may have imagined. The following was removed from the Cumbernauld Chess Club noticeboard because it was deemed to "reflect badly on the club."

" Last season in Glasgow Division Two, I never lost a game. Therefore I believe that I have earned the right to play in our Division one matches. So being left aside in order to play Dunfermline players is Grossly unfair in my opinion. I appreciate that they helped us out of a hole in the past, but that is not my problem."

Dunfermline players very Kindly offered to play for us when Hamilton refused us the opportunity to reschedule a Division One Match.

" These players did NOT earn Promotion I DID. What is the point of working hard to earn promotion when someone else is going to reap the benefit??? And to add Insult to Injury, I'm to "stand by" as Reserve......
Er No Thank You !!!"

The reason that I'm posting this on here is that I object very strongly to my thoughts being suppressed from our noticeboard especially on the grounds that it reflects badly on the club.

I believe that having people slogging it out in Division two year after year, spending a fortune on petrol ferrying people around then earning promotion only to be replaced by players from another club who very conveniently become Cumbernauld players, reflect more badly on the club than my murmurs of discontent.

Admittedly I'm playing pretty crap at the moment , but still do not feel that my poor form justifies replacement with other players from another club in a desperate attempt to stay in Glasgow Division One.

Dunfermline players, please do not withdraw as a result of this posting as I would not now play anyway.
I just can not abide people telling me what I can and cannot think or feel. If I wanted THOUGHT SUPPRESSION I would swallow a few LARGATIL.

As the title says, Siegrun has asked me to post a list of her books that she'd like to give away. The list is as follows (desc = descriptive notation):

British Chess Mags 1994/5; some other mags
Fischer: My 60 memorable games (desc)
Forbes: Polgar sisters
Keene: Aron Nimzowitsch
Niemzowitsch: The Praxis od my system (desc)
Károlyi: Judit Polgar
Kasparov: My great predecessors IV
Motwani: H O T Chess
Gerzadowicz: Journal of a Chess Original
Gerzadowicz: Thinker’s Chess
Bologan: Selected games
Shirov: fire on board
Reti: Masters of the chess bd (desc)
Kmoch: Rubinstein’s masterpieces (desc)
Tartakower: 500 Master Games (desc)
Abrahams: Technique in chess (desc)
Ilyumzhinovaris…
Keene: How to beat Kasparov
Pandolfini: Principles of the new chess
Littlewood: How to play the middle game (desc)
Philips: The chess teacher
Walker: Test your chess
Kostyev: 40 lessons
Hodgson: Attack with Julian
Avni: creative chess
Avni: The GM’s mind
Avni: Surprise in chess
Taulbut: How to play the ruy lopez
Barden: The ruy lopez
Schiller: Complete defense to King Pawn openings

Please send her an email if interested.

Hi Folks,

Remember SNCL is on 24/2/13

I would appreciate getting all trophies back so that I am sure they are in my hands for prize giving in March.

EVERYONE look in your cupboards, attic, whatever and get the trophies found!!!!!!!!

GG

From the organisers of the European Senior Championships to be held in Plovdiv in March -

You have a nice opportunity to visit Bulgaria this summer as we have chain of tournaments -Bulgarian Chess Summer in one of the best Black sea resorts and very attractive prize funds.

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Best regards,
Central Office
ESCC 2013

Incidentally five of our senior players are registered for the Euro Seniors.

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I have decided to write my biography for the archives while I can still remember - it's currently 8 pages and I have just realised what debt I owe to Walter Munn, Stewart Reuben, Gerald Bonner and many others who organised these:

Look at this list - all disappeared - are there others ?

Langside Hall junior tournaments
Renfrewshire Open
Glasgow Chess Club and their open tournament
Lloyds Bank International
World U-26 Team champs
World Student Team champs
ARC Young Masters
a competitive Glasgow Schools League
a competitive Scottish Boys Championship
Glasgow Herald U-19 Championships
Glasgow League A K Miller team handicap
Renfrewshire county championship
Scottish county championship
A 14-round Olympiad

Perhaps instead of spending energy on this noticeboard those with time could organise a tournament