Due to being unable to find an available suitable venue for 4th-6th May, the Stirling Chess Congress will no longer be taking place that weekend. I am hopeful that the congress will take place later in the year and will confirm the new dates and venue as soon as possible. A replacement congress at Renfrew will take place instead on the first weekend of May, with results counting towards the Masters Grand Prix instead of Stirling.

Your thoughts on the following please:

1. When making moves at the board should you be seated or is it permissible to stand?

2. Recording moves and your pen runs dry. What should happen?

3. After reaching the first time control is there a minimum amount of moves you need to make in the quick play finish or can you just sit until you have less than two minutes left and claim a draw?

Thank you.

Renfrew this weekend and the pairings and results should appear here

1st round draws up, Gary has decided to combine the u1700 and u1400, so ignore the 1700 section. 

just a quick post to let people know I have been out of action due to illness since before Xmas, I am now back to work and hoping to catch up on  everything junior related very soon.
if you have been waiting on a reply to an email or have been concerned about lack of news on the forum  recently please accept my apologies. And watch this space for updates


Fortunately there is a strong group of people in junior chess that have made sure things have still run as usual

Fiona

Junior Director

I would like to update the article on the Scottish Boys' in the History Archive, which ends at 1992. https://www.chessscotland.com/documents/...BoysCh.htm

I would be grateful if winners in later years could advise me of details of the competition, and direct my attention to any Scottish Chess magazine reports, as the competition was not always part of the annual congress. (Thanks to Graeme Robertson, I have the 1994 details.)

Many thanks,
Alan McGowan
Historian, Chess Scotland

Alan Tate plays Nakamura in round 1.

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tourna...2018/1/1/1

Castlehill 2½ - 2½ Glorney Juniors

Declan Shafi (2083f) 1 – 0 Kalyan Kante (1557f)
Sam Gregory (1868f) ½ - ½  Connor Sibbald (1359cs)
Lloyd Hughes (1821f)  0 – 1 Pranav Arcot (1232cs)
Ben Volland (1820f) 0 – 1 Oishani Dutta (1202cs)
Andy Rowe (1574cs) 1 – 0 Nandini Dutta (1125cs)

Very well played by all the Glorney team

The sad news has reached us that FM Tim Upton passed away yesterday, January 10th 2018, in Luxembourg...

Rob McAndrew writes:

'There are many others better able than I to remember his contribution to chess in Scotland.  I do not know in how many Scottish Championships he played, or how many Olympiads he played for Scotland. I do know that he played in the Malta Olympiad in 1980, and the Thessaloniki Olympiad in 1984, where he beat Heikki Westerinen.

He has lived, worked and played chess since 1994 in Luxembourg , where he played for the first team of Gambit Bonnevoie in the Luxembourg league. Gambit Bonnevoie, with Tim in the team, won the Luxembourg Championship for the 2016/2017 season. He captained the team which played in the European Club Cup in Turkey in October 2017, having represented and captained the club in a number of previous European Club Cup competitions.

He was the Treasurer of the EU Institutions chess club here in Luxembourg, and regularly attended the Thursday evening meetings, where we played blitz, analysed league games from the previous weekend, and discussed chess and politics and the respective fortunes of Hibs (his club) and Raith Rovers (mine).

He will be much missed here in Luxembourg.'


Chess Scotland passes on its sincerest condolences to Tim's family and friends, and a full obituary will be published in the Chess Scotland magazine.

A Happy New year to all.

I am currently preparing the DGT Clocks into their respective orders and will contact all who placed orders, most likely in the coming week, to make necessary delivery/collection arrangements.

Should any club/league require their clocks sooner please send me an email and I will try to accommodate.

If, however, you requested clocks via Chess Edinburgh or Ayrshire Chess League please contact them in the first instance as I will only be contacting their officials who placed the order with Chess Scotland with delivery/collection.  It is they who will be responsible for further distribution of clocks to their respective clubs.

Jim Webster

PS: It will be nice to reclaim the room in my house that currently looks like a distribution centre with 6 packages of clocks (weighting in at 151kg) being re-repacked and laid out into the smaller club orders.

I assume this counts as abroad!!!

Live games

http://www.hastingschess.com/live-games-201718/

4 Scots in top event + one former Scot.

All on live boards.