Apologies, I have broken my laptop. It has been dismembered and is on the way to recovery..

Managed to pull the files off the hard drive and onto my works laptop. Remember kiddies, always have a backup =|

Round 1 am
Divison 1
A1-5 Giffnock & Clarkston A v Edinburgh Uni
B1-5 Cumbernauld v Edinburgh West
C1-5 Edinburgh 1 v Dundee City A
D1-5 Forth Valley v Hamilton A

Division 2
E1 -5 CS BOS 1 v Stonehaven
F1-5 Glenrothes Kings v East Kilbride
G1-5 Dundee City B v Greenwood
H1-5 Kilmarnock v Edinburgh 2

Division 3
I1-5 North Ayrshire Crusaders v Dumfries and District
J1-5 Forth Valley B v Hamilton B
K1-5 Lanark v Inverclyde
L1-5 Oban v Dunfermline Knights

Division 4
M1-5 Irvine v SJC
N1-5 Dundee City Juniors v Pentland Hills
O1-5 CSBOS2 v Mussleburgh
P1-5 Wandering Dragons v Corstorphine
Q1-5 Dunfermline Knaves v Woodmill Warriors

Round 2 pm
Divison 1
A1-5 Dundee City A v Cumbernauld
B1-5 Hamilton A v Edinburgh 1
C1-5 Edinburgh West v Giffnock & Clarkston A
D1-5 Edinburgh Uni v Forth Valley

Division 2
E1 -5 Edinburgh 2 v Dundee City B
F1-5 Greenwood v Glenrothes Kings
G1-5 Stonehaven v Kilmarnock
H1-5 East Kilbride v CS BOS 1

Division 3
I1-5 Dunfermline Knights v Lanark
J1-5 Hamilton B v Oban
K1-5 Dumfries and District v Forth Valley B
L1-5 Inverclyde v North Ayrshire Crusaders

Division 4
M1-5 v
N1-5 v
O1-5 v
P1-5 v
Q1-5 v

I'd like to bring to the attention of any organisors that intend to FIDE rate their events. As of 01.01.2013, there is a change in the regulations concerning who can be an arbiter at these events.

"The main change because of the new regulations will be that from 01.01.2013, in order a tournament to be rated, all its Arbiters ( IA, FA, National Arbiters) must be licensed.

A tournament with non-licensed Arbiters will not be rated."

This does not mean that you need a FIDE Licensed Arbiter for each section, only for the sections that are FIDE rated.

Here are the new Licence regulations

6. Arbiters’ Licence.

6.1 A titled active Arbiter (International Arbiter or FIDE Arbiter) and a National Arbiter working in a FIDE rated tournament shall be charged with a “licence fee”.
6.2.1 The licence will be valid for life, on the condition the arbiter remains an active arbiter, and will be in effect from the day after FIDE has received the fee.
6.2.2 The licence fee for National Arbiters is valid for life.
6.2.3 If a National Arbiter is awarded the title of “FIDE Arbiter” the licence fee for this title has to be paid to FIDE.
6.2.4 If an arbiter upgrades his/her category only the difference between the category fee has to be paid to FIDE.
6.2.5 If a “FIDE Arbiter” achieves the title of “International Arbiter”, the fee for the new title has to be paid to FIDE.
6.3 The licence fee will be:
a) for A’ Category Arbiters (only IAs): 300 €
b) for B’ Category Arbiters (only IAs): 200 €
c) for C’ Category Arbiters: IAs 160 €
FAs 120 €
d) for D’ Category Arbiters: IAs 100 €
FAs 80 €
e) for National Arbiters 20 €
6.4 Failure to pay the licence fee will lead to exclusion from the FIDE Arbiters’ list.
6.5 The Arbiters’ licence will come into effect from 01. 01. 2013.
6.6 From 01. 01. 2013 all arbiters of FIDE rated tournaments shall be licensed.
6.7.1 An arbiter who has become inactive (see annex 2, articles 1.3 and 1.4) is considered not to be licensed anymore and will be transferred to the list of inactive arbiters.
6.7.2 In order to be active again the inactive arbiter has to pay for a new licence, according to 6.3
6.8 If the article 6.6 is not fulfilled, the tournaments shall not be rated.
6.9 From 01. 01. 2013 the licence fee will be charged together with the application fee for all new awarded arbiter titles.

Hi Folks

One week to go to the new season. Hope you all have your team ready -- don't leave the phonecalls to the last minute!!!!

Remember Pay before You Play PLEASE

GG

I'll try not to turn this into a rant.

Basically, I think that chess doesn't receive the recognition it deserves in Scotland... I'm sure this was exactly what was discussed when looking into funding possibilities.

The reason I'm bringing this up again is that I'm treasurer for Edinburgh University Chess Club and we are going to be unable to defend our BUCA title in 2013 due to financial reasons. If such an important University fails to recognise chess then what hope is there? The only reason we entered a team this year was that we managed to secure sponsorship to cover the £200 team entry fee from a private company.

We then approached the University for funding as we are now British champions and received no financial support. OK, fair enough, they gave us a pat on the back and a mention in monthly uni magazine (only doing so because Raj who works at the Uni spoke to the Rector I believe). If we were a sports club in the Union's eyes then we would receive funding... We are seen as less than clubs such as Ultimate Frisbee (no disrespect meant!) who get all their expenses paid for.

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I was just double checking all was present and correct in our entries for this top event next month. I noticed that in the open U12 event there are 193 entries. I believe the bottom player gets a bye. So it's top 1 to 96 v 97 to 192. The boy seeded 1 from the USA is graded 2336. The boy seeded 97 ? Someone we know well!
This must surely be on a live board and I hope everyone turns up for this game to take place. Can't wait!

Just for curiosity value some of the most impressive performances from D & A

Pub grade Perf Diff
Sani, Leonardo J13 1072 1646 574
Gray, Euan J11 937 1418 481
Ramazanov, Vagif J 9 946 1423 477
Abdulla, Murad J12 1746 2180 434
Shafi, Declan J12 1309 1677 368
Dawson, Euan J11 778 1135 357
Milton, Anna J12 1327 1584 257
Underwood, Jamie R J13 1450 1677 227
Wynne, Stuart J14 1249 1469 220

Grading performances will follow later this evening:

Supported by Invensys Technology Ltd
Open

1st: FM Alan Tate
2nd=: IM Stephen Burns-Mannion, Calum MacQueen, Clement Sreeves
U2000: Jonathan Edwards
U1850=: Ali Roy Kevin Mayo, Alastair Dawson, Murad Abdulla

Challengers

1st =: Michael Ridge, John S.R. Smith, Jeremy Mitchell
Grading: Robert Lawson
Junior: Daniel Deary

Major

1st =: Norman Andrews, Bernard Cassidy
2nd=: Kevin Campbell, George Livie, Bruce Wallace, John Pearston
Junior: Leonardo Sani

Minor

1st: Euan Gray
2nd=: Norman Grant, Terry Doherty, Vagif Ramazanov, Ron Cutting, Jan Barron-Majerik
Junior: Samuel Kearns, Harry Turner
Primary: Euan Dawson

Giantkiller: David Newton

There were 16 players of 12 or under, notable performances from the list above:

Murad Abdulla (12 yrs, Aberdeen)
Euan Gray (11yrs, North Juniors)
Vagif Ramazanov (9 yrs, Aberdeen)

These are the teams I have so far. Tomorrow 15th Oct is the closing date. Please contact me if your team is not there

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Dundee City A
Forth Valley A
Giffnock
Cumbernauld
Hamilton A Team
Edinburgh West
Edinburgh 1
Dundee City B
Kilmarnock
CSBOS 1
Edinburgh 2
Stonehaven
Glenrothes Kings
Forth Valley B
North Ayrshire Crusaders
Dunfermline Knights
CSBOS 2
Irvine
Hamilton B Team
Dumfries
Oban
Dundee City Juniors
Corstorphine
Dunfermline Knaves
Musselburgh
Wandering Dragons
Pentland Hills

That makes 27teams with two new members so obviously some teams have not got in touch. Is it you??

GG

Are there any plans for the DGT boards to be used at Dundee this weekend?

Looking at the new laws coming in, one sprang immediately to mind

Under the punishment section

13.9 Options available to the arbiter concerning penalties:
a. warning
b. increasing the remaining time of the opponent
c. reducing the remaining time of the offending player
d. a fine announced in advance
e. declaring the game to be lost by the offending player (the arbiter shall also decide the opponent’s score)
f. increasing the points scored in the game by the opponent to the maximum available for that game
g. reducing the points scored in the game by the offending player
h. expulsion from the event, which should only be considered in conjunction with the organiser.


hmm. Fine being pints of beer perhaps :p