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Event started. See live games daily at link above (click "results"). Two Scots entered - Phil Giulian, Ian Marks. Rd 4 today. Good luck!

And the score was.....?

A few years ago there was quite a lot of talk about a reduction in the amount of players playing chess and general decline in the popularity of chess.

It seemed generally speaking with the smaller clubs numbers were declining, with the exception of some clubs, such as Hamilton, which at the time seemed to be increasing in size. This is no doubt down to the excellent work of Michael Hanley and others at the Club.

At Bellshill, numbers over the last few years have remained pretty constant, 1 season a player might leave and generally speaking a new member will come along - numbers are generally level.

It would be interesting to see where Chess was at today, are we still in decline? Has there been a resurgence in Chess amongst other clubs? Or have things really levelled out?

Just spotted this on the ECForum

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Is it just me or are some topics disappearing without a trace?

I’m sure I saw a topic about the Aftermath of Motion 4 or something like that. I know we have new forum rules but its beginning to get a bit like China on the Chess Scotland forum. Surely this topic won’t be deleted as well? We've gone from no moderation to hyper moderation overnight. :\

Can I also make the point that disagreeing with someone else’s opinion is not a personal attack. Certain posters on here don't realise that and I'm not sure the new forum rules are explicit enough on that.

An achievement equally worthy of recognition. First girl to win the Primary Individual!

I have never played Monica and as per my overall tactic of avoidance against precocious and talented youth, would be delighted for our score of 0-0 to remain that way

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Scotland's Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant has qualified for the Women's World Championship which is to be held in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia from 9 November to 3 December 2012. I hope she takes up the place.

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Well done to Andrew McCusker on wining the Rowson Award - you join a very select group!