Hi Guys

Chess Scotland will be hosting a fund raising dinner on Friday November 16th at Ralston Golf Club in Paisley. Tickets for a three course set evening meal at priced at £30 per head with a vegetarian option if required. There should also be one or two guest speakers from the Scottish Chess Scene (any volunteers?) as well.

Please contact Ian Brownlee (07899 832770 or admin@chessscotland.com ) for further details. All monies raised will go towards Chess Scotland funds. Please send me any expressions of interest. If this is a success at all, we may replicate this at future events.

A fun night out will be had by all.

Does anyone have chessbase problems with Windows 10 ? I could hardly get it to work at the British Championships. It kept on hanging, freezing files, and it couldn't analyse games without putting in obscure symbols. Makes it very hard to play well.

Hi All
I am sorry to announce that due due to lack of interest the Lanark Open is cancelled this year...

The European Youth Chess Championships will be taking place in Latvia from the 19th to 30th of August.

Competing from Scotland will be:

Under 18

Euan Dawson

Under 16

Lukah Connolly-Sams

Under 14

Benjamin Ridge
Dietah Connolly-Sams
James Hartman

Under 12

Alasdair Sandham


All the best to our young international representatives.

Ruairidh

Good luck to Kalyan Kante, our Scottish representative at Jugendschach in Austria this year. Kalyan is taking part in the U14 Open section.

A nice news story there but was surprised that Paul Motwani does not appear in the list of youngest players? I'm sure I remember him telling me about his Olympiad trips when we were a University and pretty sure we were both teenagers at the time (long time ago )

Details of the inaugural Stranraer Congress are now available both on the CS website and also the Championship Chess website

Ireland are in the early stages of putting together an event in 2019 for previous, i.e. former, Glorney & Gilbert players - an ALUMINI Event! This is still in the early stages and they are looking for ideas and interest. They have sent the following for circulation: -

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Glorney/Faber/Gilbert/Robinson/Stokes ALUMNI event in 2019 
 
The Glorney Gilbert International 2019 organisers are considering a gathering of Glorney, Faber/Gilbert, Robinson & Stokes ALUMNI (from 1948 - 2018) . The initial idea is a gathering on Sun 21st July 2019 at the GGI 2019 venue in Ireland for some chess and/or a lunch followed by the opening ceremony of the GGI 2019. Other IDEAS as to date, duration, format, etc., welcome. Contact the organisers: juniors@icu.ie or see here for more.
 
Please spread the word to ALL ALUMNI asking those interested to email or to complete the contact form here.
 
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Should any former player be interested please contact them directly using their links - at this time I don't have enough information to answer any queries.

The huge Czech Open in Pardubice iis on just now with plenty of Scottish interest as usual! Alan Tate, Hamish Olson, Andrew Green, Neil Thomson, Lennart Koehn, Gary Gillespie and David Gillespie Jnr are all playing in various sections.

You can follow the Scottish results on this link...

http://chess-results.com/tnr365638.aspx?...ES&flag=30

...with LIVE games via this link on the organisers homepage...

http://www.czechopen.net/en/live-games/live-open-a/

All the best to our players participating!

Wishing all the best to Steve Hilton who is the Scotsman in the UK team going to Sofia, Bulgaria for the 8th IBCA World Team Championships for Blind and Visually Impaired Players from tomorrow till the 31st of July. The Championship is contested by the top 16 teams from last year's Blind and Visually Impaired Olympiad in Macedonia.

You can follow the results here:

http://chess-results.com/tnr365065.aspx?lan=1