Hi all,

I currently require material for the next issue! If anyone fancies writing up reports on all or any of the following events before April 7th please get in touch <!-- e --><a href="mailto:abburnett@hotmail.com">abburnett@hotmail.com</a><!-- e -->:

-Scottish Girls Championship
-Irvine Congress,
-Edinburgh Congress
-Glasgow Blitz
-Team lightning
-other events: leagues, club championship, outside Scotland events with Scottish interest, etc

Games, reports, photos, personal accounts. Basically anything you think readers might find of interest. Don't worry about the format - I can sort that.

Many thanks,

Andy Burnett,

(CS magazine editor)

A reminder that the Team Lightning will take place after the SNCL on Sunday (see under Calendar for details).

Please let me have as many entries as possible in advance. It makes planning so much easier.

Thanks

P5&U (14 entries)
1st Sciennes A (Team shield) - won tie break with NSCS by 1/2 a board point.
2nd NSCS
3rd St Peter's A (School's shield)
4th ESMS A
5th Linlithgow Barbarians

Challengers prize: Flora Stevenson
Intermediate (1): James Gillespie's
Intermediate (2): St George's

P6/7 (16 entries)
1st Sciennes A (Team shield)
2nd St Peter's A (School shield)
3rd ESMS P7 A
4th Flora Stevenson
5th Brunstfield
6th James Gillespies

Challengers prize: Pentland A
Intermediate: Sciennes B
Minor: Pentland B

Secondary (5 entries)
1st Tiger Cubs (Team shield)
2nd NSCS
3rd Linlithgow Academy (Schools shield)

Can you solve the chess problem which holds key to human consciousness?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/...ciousness/

...seems like it should maybe be/have a topic.

Congratulations to the organisers of the Championships who had 45 team entries in 3 categories yesterday and to all those who participated including my own Club members who represented their various schools, noteably Bishopbriggs Academy who were brilliant in winning the Secondary School Title :-)

UNDER 300:
1st Ishan Rohatgi High School of Glasgow 6/6
2nd = James Prentice Clobber PS Milngavie 4.5/6
Aditya Zaveri Lanark CC 4.5/6
Raphael De Maigret Glasgow Academy 4.5/6
( James won tiebreak and got 2nd place trophy, with Aditya getting 3rd place trophy and Raphael getting a medal)

Medals for 50% and above:
4/6 Shwetika Balaji Glasgow Academy
Aryan Munshi Hillhead PS Glasgow
Kartike Sharan Hillhead PS Glasgow
3.5/6 Amy Rousseau Bishopton PS
Abhimanyu Singh Rana Hillhead PS Glasgow
Ishan Kumar Glasgow Academy / Lenzie Chess Academy
Kabir Kumar Anderson PS Glasgow
3/6 Caitlin Harnes St Marys PS Hamilton
Siyumi Parakramawansha Lenzie Chess Academy
Jackson Murtagh Bishopton PS
Marshall Liang Fettes College Edinburgh
Abhiram Kandala St Patricks PS Glasgow
Sandy Prentice Clobber PS Milngavie

UNDER 600:
1st Lewis Ng Lenzie Chess Academy 6/6
2nd Sean McCann Holy Cross PS Croy 5/6
3rd= James Coyle Glasgow Academy 4/6
Aarna Mishra Hamilton College 4/6
( James won the tiebreak and got the 3rd place trophy, with Aarna getting a medal)

Medals for 50% and above:
3/6 Brodie McCann Holy Cross PS Croy
Gia Kohli Glasgow Academy/ Lenzie Chess Academy
Jake Liu Glasgow Academy
Alina Tang Lenzie Chess Academy
OVER 600:
1st Murdo McLaurin Fettes College Edinburgh 4/4
2nd Carolina Espinosa Cancino Girvan PS ¾
3rd Ethan Palmer Hamilton CC 2.5/4

Medal for 50%:
2/4 Sahib Kohli Glasgow Academy/Lenzie Chess Academy

Placings in the <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.helpfriendssavemoney.co.uk">www.helpfriendssavemoney.co.uk</a><!-- w --> Grand Prix for the £50 first prize:
1st Sahib Kohli 22 points
2nd Murdo McLaurin 19.5points
3rd Pranav Saravanan 16 points

Michael.

Hi Guys

entry form and tournament details now posted here
http://chessscotland.com/tournament.php?...0816100545

Hopefully we'll have lots of interest for this inaugural  event

Anyone with any queries can either post them here or contact me directly

Results are up on the front page as well as on Chess results http://chess-results.com/tnr243674.aspx?...t=2&wi=821. FIDE grading will appear after Weds. Please can you let me know of any mistakes.

Looking through the leagues

Division 1

Winner will be either Dundee City A or Edinburgh 1. Edinburgh need to win to be champions any other result and Dundee win.

Relegated will be Giffnock. Who joins them is complicated.
For Thistles to be safe, they need to win. If they draw then they need either a win for Forth Valley or a win for Edinburgh West. If they lose then Edinburgh West also have to lose and score 2 game points less
Edinburgh West are safe if they win or draw. They can lose provided Thistles also lose and Edinburgh score 1.5 points (1 point goes to tie break that I am not going to think about tonight)
Forth Valley are safe with either a win, a draw or Thistles losing

Division 2
Inverclyde are champions, Stepps will be promoted with them

Going down East Kilbride are relegated, joining them CSBOS1 have to beat IPCC to stay op. IPCC stay up with a win or draw

Division 3
Bon Accord are champions, Perth will be promoted alongside them

Forth Valley B are relegated, Oban have to win 5-0 with Dunfermline losing 5-0 for it to go to tiebreak

Division 4

Yikes. 5 teams in with a chance. Donald will let me know the draw this week. Looking at it, seems likely that 4 of the teams will be paired together. Fair to say if either Lenzie, Musselburgh, Paisley, CSBOS2 or Crouching Tigers win their games, they have an excellent chance of being promoted.

If Musselburgh win then they will be champions. Lose and they are unlikely to be promoted. Draw, given their inferior board count v the others, they are unlikely to be promoted
CSBOS2 and Lenzie are a point behind so need to at least draw to be in with a chance.
Paisley and Crouching Tigers need to win and hope other results go their way

We were delighted to welcome over 160 kids today for our second team day of the season. In a new twist, the P6/7 event also acts as a qualifier for the u11 UK National Schools Chess Championships run by the ECF.

Congratulations to all the winners, and we look forward to seeing you at our events later in the year.

P5&U (16 entries)
1st Erskine Stewart Melville Schools (Knight's shield)
2nd Sciennes A (Almond shield)
3rd Sciennes B
4th St Peter's A
5th South Morningside

Challengers prize: ESMS P4
Intermediate: St Peter's B
Novice: West Lothian Barbarians

P6/7 (18 entries)
1st St Peter's A (Castle shield, UKSCC Qualifier) - Won tie break with Sciennes - third round of board elimination for match between 1st and 2nd.
2nd Sciennes A (Forth shield)
3rd St Peter's B
4th= Flora Stevenson - (Couldn't be separated on tie break)
4th= NSCS - (Couldn't be separated on tie break)
6th Brunstfield

Challengers prize: ESMS P7 A
Intermediate: ESMS P7B 
Barbarians prize: Linlithgow Barbarians
Novice: James Gillespie's

Secondary (6 entries)
1st Linlithgow Academy  (Lothians Winter shield)
2nd Auchterarder
3rd George Watson's (Esk shield)

Our next event is our final Team Day on the 19th of March. Entries will open this week.