While watching the Tour De France I wonder whether we can award points (and prizes) based on certain aspects of players play during games. In the Tour you can gain points for for winning specified sprints or by doing the best climb; in chess (with live boards) would it be possible to allocate points for best performance in different areas of the game, with prizes (or just recognition) for the players who scores best say in the opening, the middle or end game?

Not sure on what basis you would allocate points: for example is it solely based on the advantage achieved after x moves in the opening or would it be for following the book furthest (not sure if that would encourage learning or just dis-courage players from thinking for themselves).

Could this be used as part of a training event to incentives players ?

Hello.

For anyone looking to improve on their chess library.

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Sorry if anyone is offended for posting this here.

Ta.

All

We have now rolled out the first part of a new development on tournament stats. When you visit a player's page after searching for them you'll now notice four links, as follows (new in bold):

- View Games: Lists all the games played by the player for the selected season and grade type.

- View Stats: Shows the player's stats including best wins, %wdl etc

- View Tournaments (Regular/Allegro): Shows top 10 tournaments based on TPR and a graph of all the player's TPRs in chronological order. Note for statistical accuracy events with too few games have been excluded. This feature also includes leagues as if they were single tournaments. Some TPRs may be slightly different to those shown on the final standings pages of the tournaments because they are freshly calculated and use a slightly different way of doing it. Instead of always rounding in a particular way the new version rounds to the nearest expected score, and so creates a slightly more reliable figure. This can be changed if anyone thinks it necessary.

Please pass on any thoughts or issues you find with the above.

More coming soon...

Motion 5

If a player has an ELO-rating with a country other than SCO then they are not eligible
to be Scottish Champion.

Proposer Andrew Muir
Seconder Andrew Burnett

Am I the only one who is slightly uneasy about this motion?

I can understand why some people do not think Jacob should be eligible to be Scottish champion after his decision to switch back to being Danish registered but there may be other people in the future who will be hit by this who probably should be eligible to be Scottish champion e.g. was Keti registered as SCO when she won in 2003?

Also I am not sure it makes sense for Jacob not to be eligible living in Bearsden but Matthew Turner to be eligible living in Somerset. To my mind either both should be eligible or neither.

If the intention is just to stop Jacob being eligible then I think people need to be more exact about why they don't think he should be eligible and any motion should reflect this.

(To be pedantic I think the motion should also refer to FIDE rating rather than ELO rating. FIDE ratings are an example of ELO ratings but you can have ELO ratings which are not FIDe ratings. CS grades are arguably just adjusted ELO ratings.)

It's my sad duty to report that Mark Sanderson, of the Edinburgh Chess Club, was killed in a traffic accident just outside Peebles on Monday.

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As well as being an active player (fond of various gambits), Mark was a tireless and efficient organiser (currently both Treasurer and organiser of our junior training), as he had been when he was living in Manchester and will leave an enormous gap at Edinburgh CC. But he will mostly be missed for his easy smile, boyish enthusiaism and affable manner.

David Archibald, Secretary,
Edinburgh Chess Club
1 Alva Street
Edinburgh
EH2 4PH

I am unable to get to AGM but would.ike to exercise my right to vote, particularly on the motions being presented.

Is there an electrinic form for doing this, or will an ordinary email do. Such an email would need to nominate someone to vote for them , and as directed.

The European Youth Chess Championships kicks off next Friday in Prague. Scotland are taking the following squad.

Under 10 Boys: Vagif Ramazanov, Liam Richmond
Under 12 Boys: Murad Abdulla, Kai Pannwitz
Under 12 Girls: Anna Milton
Under 14 Boys: Alexander Bond
Under 16 Boys: Nihad Abdullazada, Ian McDonald, Carl Milton
Under 16 Girls: Alice Lampard
Under 18 Boys: Andrew McClement, Hamish Olson
Under 18 Girls: Ali Roy

Coach: Alan Tate

The tournament can be found online at <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.eycc2012.eu/">http://www.eycc2012.eu/</a><!-- m -->. There will be some live coverage of games, though I don't yet know the extent. I'm hopeful that I will be able to keep people inform of results and how everything's progressing via this thread.

Should be fun!

I have some questions on Motion 2.

Quote:The following two motions are because of a failed attempt to gain lottery funding. We have been advised that they need to be changed if we want to be successful in the future. Amendment are in bold.
We wish to amend 14.7 to read “A Special General Meeting may be called for the purpose of dissolving Chess Scotland following the procedure of 14.1 or 14.2 . Should a motion to dissolve succeed, any assets would be transferred to the BCF in trust until such time as a new organisation in Scotland is formed.

Hi Everyone,

That time of year again (!) I am taking part in the Great Scottish swim on the 25th August, this year I am fundraising for St Andrew's hospice based in Airdrie.

The hospice is based just behind St Margaret's church where the Hamilton congress has been held the last couple of years.

From St Andrew's Website:
"St Andrew's Hospice provides specialist palliative care services - the total care of patients who require complex symptom management and or end-of-lifecare - and is open to all, without distinction of race, gender, or creed. It is Lanarkshire's only Specialist Hospice and provides multidisciplinary support for patients, their families, and carers."

To run the hospice they require roughly £44,000 per week in donations.

It is a fantastic cause and any donations would be greatly recieved.

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Thank you,

Kevin

Two weeks until the start of this year's Lanark Open. Details in the tournaments and events section.