I regret to announce the death of Jim Thornton.  Jim has been a member of Paisley Chess Club through its various incarnations from Anchor, to Ciba-Geigy and Paisley YMCA.  He also served on its committee for a considerable number of years and was Honorary President.

His funeral will be held on Wednesday 28th at Craigton at 11.30.  G52 2DB.

I have received the following from Colin Baxter, son of Raymond Baxter

I am contacting you to let you know that my father, Raymond Baxter, passed away on 11 November at the age of 85.  My father was a leading chess player in Scotland in the 1960s, finishing in the top 3 of the Scottish Championship twice and representing Scotland at the Chess Olympliad in Israel in 1964.
 
His funeral will be held at Warriston Crematorium, Edinburgh at 12 noon this coming Monday (26th November).   I'm not sure if you have an online notice board or similar to make your members aware so that any current or (more likely) former players who remember my father can perhaps attend.

We have just received sad news that IA Ken Stewart, a stalwart of the Chess Scotland Management Committee, collapsed and died while hill walking yesterday.

We will share details of the funeral arrangements when we have them

Thirteen of our seniors are currently in Bled where the 28th World Senior Chess Championships kick off tomorrow. A full list of Scottish players and results can be found at the link below...

http://chess-results.com/tnr361550.aspx?...ES&flag=30

...and LIVE games should be available through the official site...

http://wscc2018.european-chessacademy.com/index.php/en/

Good luck to all!

Andy Burnett

Thirteen of our seniors are currently in Bled where the 28th World Senior Chess Championships kick off tomorrow. A full list of Scottish players and results can be found at the link below...

http://chess-results.com/tnr361550.aspx?...ES&flag=30

...and LIVE games should be available through the official site...

http://wscc2018.european-chessacademy.com/index.php/en/

Good luck to all!

Andy Burnett

Hi all,

Despite some difficulties with airport transport, our 2 representatives Sanjith Madhavan and Ishan Kumar have started very well indeed! Both are without a FIDE rating going into the competition but that is sure to change very soon with the trouble they are causing to highly graded opponents.

Sanjith is in the Open under-12 tournament and has opened with 2 draws - firstly to Jaime Alcon Llosada (Andorra) rated 1715 and then to Matteo Metzdorf (Germany) rated 1865.

Ishan has started impressively as well in the Open under-10 tournament with a loss in Round 1 but then a draw with Juan Esteban Medina (Colombia) rated 1332.

Round 3 was suspended today due to weather conditions.

All are welcome to an educational chess session at Glasgow Polytechnic Chess Club.

Thursday 8th November, at 7.30pm

Iain Swan will demonstrate a couple of exciting, attacking games from contemporary super-grandmaster praxis.

Once again people have gone home from SNCL without heir belongings.

A chess book. 

A packet of cigarettes.

If you can correctly describe these items we will give them back.

A fancy drinks bottle. We left it at the venue. If you are in the area go and get it otherwise hopefully it will be kept until next meeting. After that it will be thrown out.

A black king also went missing  in the analysis room. If you accidently took it home, can we have it back please.

Hope you all enjoyed the day.

GG

Will post grading tomorrow

Todays Results

Division 1
Division 2
Division 3
Division 4

Scotland's IM Stephen Mannion and Jonathan Grant are among the extremely strong field in this tournament, starting today. Good luck gents!

http://chess-results.com/tnr385685.aspx?...turdet=YES


Live games and commentary can be found at the site below...


https://iominternationalchess.com/
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