I have been researching the life and games of the Berlin master Kurt Richter (1900-1969).

Alan Grant of Cathcart CC tells me that he recalls seeing an article on the inside front cover of a BCM, sometime in the last 3-4 years. It concerned a 'newly discovered' Kurt Richter game.

Does anyone have these years of the BCM? If so,could you oblige and see if the reference can be found?

Thank you for any assistance.

Alan McGowan
Historian, Chess Scotland

Please can you check your results at http://www.chessscotland.com/scottishcha.../prize.php and warn me of any mistakes.



Scottish Championships
1st= GM Nikolov Momchil, GM Vitaly Teterev, GM Jacob Aagaard, IM Jonathan Hawkins, IM Bragi Thorfinsson 7/9

Scottish Champion GM Jacob Aagaard 7/9

Scottish Senior Champions IM Roddy McKay, FM Philip Giulian 5.5/9

Junior Boy, Andrew McClement 5.5/9

Junior Girl Ali Roy, 4/9

U2400 Grading Jasmin Bejtovic, Michael De Verdier, IM Douglas Bryson, FM Alan Tate 6/9

U2200 Grading Daniel Lindner, Andrew McClement 5.5/9

U2050 Grading Douglas McKerracher, Nokkvi Sverrisson 5/9

U1950 Grading Douglas Will, Ian Marks 5/9

U1800 Grading Jon T Hardasson 4.5/9

Giant Killer Conor O'Donnell

Best Game FM Donald Holmes

Player of the Year Calum MacQueen

U1750 / Senior

1st= George Murphy, William Clinton 5/7

U1750 Boy Carl Milton 4/7

U1450

1st David Potts, 5/7

2nd = David Congalton, Joseph Weir, Bernard Cassidy, Iain Hope 4.5/7

U1450 Girl Anna Milton 2.5/7

Weekend Open

1st Alex Gillies 4/5

2nd= John Briggs, Jonathan Wells 3.5/5

Weekend Major

1st John Smith 4.5/5

2nd= Norman Lindsay, Keith Aitchieson, Joshua Higgs 4/5

U1475 Grading Ian Morris 3.5/5

Weekend Minor

1st Stuart Wynne, 4.5/5

2nd = David Watson, Liam Richmond, Leszek Rewak

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Please be aware there is an Orange Walk in Glasgow tomorrow. From what I can see one starts in Kelvingrove Park at 10:30 and heads from there to the Peoples palace. The other will start at Wallace street. It will affect George Square!

Give yourselves plenty of time to get to the venue

To quote from Strathclyde Police

"“On Saturday, there will be 174 parades taking place throughout the Force area. Of these, 46 parades, with up to 8000 marchers, will walk through Glasgow City Centre. "

Good luck everyone that is attending the Northern Gigafinal this weekend.

As they have both declared in advance that they wish their games to be graded I know that both Caitlin Reid & Iona Bryson are playing but haven't been able to get a list of Scottish entrants from the organisers.

As at July 2012 there are 275 Scots with a FIDE grade, However there are a further 200+ unrated Scots with a FIDE PNUM.

Unrated players are added for all the events where we submit FIDE data. FIDE require date of birth to be given at the time new players are added. It's a useful requirement which improves player identification. However this information is not always known and a guess at birth year is given to allow the new player addition to be made.

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I have just been having a look at the entries for the British & in particular the Junior Age Championships.

Scotland have 3 entries (so far). One from the North, one from the East & one from the West.

Which has lead me to post & say - : I still find it amazing that parents are willing to pay £100's & some cases £1000's of pounds for their children to go abroad to play & challenge against new opponents but so few ever play at the British. I am thinking more so of the U14's down as there are so few age group tournaments apart from this event & the Internationals. This years event in Whitley Bay is almost local as next year its back to Torquay & the swine flu zone!

Lord Kirkwood has very generously donated £250 for a best game prize at the Scottish Championship. I have been asked to select a winner. I hope to be able to post some daily comments about the games that I have enjoyed and get some feedback from other people. If you see a game that you think is particularly worthy then post a comment and I'll give it special attention. Before the Championships start I'd like to pose a question

What qualities should a best game have?

I post a link to photos of this event in Argentina

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Hamilton Junior Chess Club “Summer Camp”

Monday 6th August – Friday 10th August (9.00-16.00)

Bothwell Community Centre, Fallside Road, Bothwell, G71 8HF

The idea is various trainers going through a coaching course, with the lessons being e-mailed to the participants.

The day would be split as follows, morning: 2 lessons followed by some fun chess doubles/must take/ 4way chess etc. Then lunch, then in the afternoon another 2 lessons followed by 2 graded games in a tournament (giving 10 rounds all in).

The cost would be £20 per day ( i.e. £100 for the week), to cover premises, coaches, trophies etc.

Summer Camp Application Form ( to be returned by Monday 23rd July)

Name__________________________________________________________________________

Address_________________________________________________________________________

Parents E-Mail Address___________________________________________________________

My child will bring a Packed Lunch Yes/No

I give permission for my child to be taken along Main Street to buy hot food Yes/No

Soft drinks/sweets will be available at the venue.

I enclose a cheque for £100 for the week Yes/No

I enclose a cheque for _____ to cover days ______________________

Please make cheques payable to Hamilton Chess Club.

Preference will be given to those booking for the week, maximium numbers will be 30, number of trainers dependant on number of children attending, which is why entries need to be in by 23rd July.

Michael Hanley.