What do a Dutchman, a Ukrainian, an Uzbeki, a Russian and a Filipino have in common at the moment?

As part of our 30th anniversary celebrations IM Craig Pritchett will give a simultaneous exhibition on Wednesday 19th December from 7.30pm.

Entry is open to non-club members - fee is £5 per head.

Venue is our normal club premises, i.e:

Saughtonhall Community Centre
22a Saughtonhall Avenue
Edinburgh EH12 5RN

See weblink below for a map:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&suge...d=0CGgQtgM

If you would like to play in this event then please contact me on ["mandkrobinson at btinternet dot com"], or else call me on 0131 447 3148, and I will confirm your place. Spaces are limited so advance booking is necessary to guarantee availability.

Craig has kindly agreed to donate a copy of one of his recent books - Heroes of Classical Chess or Giants of Innovation - as a prize for the best game.

Regards

Martin Robinson
President
Edinburgh West Chess Club

The Liverpool Quadrangular takes place November 30 to December 2, 2012

Squads below in alphabetical order.

Under 16: Murad Abdulla, Daniel Deary, Lennart Koehn, Andrew McCusker, Carl Milton, Stuart Wynne

Under 14: Alexander Bond, Colin Howie, Moray Lennox, Anna Milton, Declan Shafi, Fergus Skillen, Caitlin Reid, Liam Richmond, Zak Roy, Leonardo Sani, Jamie Underwood

Under 12: Matthew Billcliff, Euan Dawson, Michael Doyle, Andrew Gillies, Craig Gillies, Darren Gillies, Euan Gray, Stuthi Hegde, Kirsty McCusker, Thomas Stidolph, Ben Volland.

Coaches

U16 GM Matthew Turner
U14 Jonathan Edwards and Calum MacQueen
U12 Alastair Dawson and Alex Gillies

Head of Delegation Paul MacDonald

ChessScotland officials Donald Wilson, David Congalton and Judy Milton.

Good luck to eveyone at this event and a special thankyou to Donald, David and Judy for the terrific job they have done in organising accommodation and transport amongst other things.

Robin.

Hi dear chess players, My first visit to th Glen Pavilion it was great to see so many great chess players under one roof the venue was very good and well run with the usual organisers doing there bit, I went to watch my team play (Musselburgh) and take a few photographs with my new camera had a bit of a wonder around town to had a great day thanks to all.

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Seeing a I am a nice relaxed non-controversial member of ChessScotland, this might not mean too much. I would love to have a female player in every SNCL team. Everyone get their politcally correct hat on and have a think about it. People like Joy, Ali and Siegrun might be on my side but I am sure that there are others who are not.

Let all ladies fight for a place in the best teams. Anna , Kirsty and Stuthi would be contenders for the top teams. How does that sound? A female in every team.
What could it mean long term?... Competition for female adult and and junior international events. Sounds good to me...

Robin.

Available

Round 3

and after 3pm


Round 4

Enjoy

Hi, hopefully someone can explain the following problem to me...

I have downloaded the Grading calculator program and have been entering my results for this season. However, I don't understand some of the adjusted grades being used. Take the following...

Opps Adj Used
1789 1789 1849
1475 1475 1849
1885 1885 1885
2059 2179 2179
2007 2007 2007
1619 1739 1849
2216 2336 2336
1569 1569 1849
2475 2475 2475
1846 1966 1966
2175 2295 2295

...why are the figures in bold 120 points different between actual and adjusted?

Cheers,
Andy Burnett

As the more observant of you will have noticed at Oban, I am again growing a 'tache for Movember, to raise funds for men's cancer.

The growth will also be on display at SNCL tomorrow.

If you would like to make a donation, please go to my "Mome Page" at

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Thanks,

Alan Jelfs

A big thanks to Duncan Campbell and his squad of talented helpers for an excellent tournament.
There were some diffiulties presented to them by the entry of my friend who had severe mobility issues but they overcame them in a really sensitive way. So much so my well travelled friend said it was the best tournament he had ever been at.
Thanks to assistance from Arthur Guinness on Saturay my Sunday play was severely impaired but never the less it was a wonderful overall experience.
Cheers guys.

Round 7 in the World youth. Liam Richmond comes out of the hall after his game finishes to tell us that he won a rook on move 19. On move 20 the chief arbiter appeared, said that his Albanian opponent was ill and was declaring the game + - for Scotland. This effectively meant we got the point but Liam would not be credited with any grading points. We sought advice from home and decided to appeal. David Deary and I spoke to the chief arbiter in his office and he produced a medical certificate for Liam's opponent timed at 14.40 which he had received at 14.55 (The game started at 15.00). The Albanian player had missed the previous two rounds through illness. We suspect that the chief arbiter may have assumed that the Albanian boy was not going to turn up but realised two and a half hours into the game that he had. We lodged our appeal and our 100 euros deposit. The three panel appeals commitee included the Fide secretary-general. After some time considering, our appeal was successful and we were given the full result plus our deposit back. Thoughts?