Yes I know we have our Scottish Championships and England has its version in Bournemouth (can't afford their entry fee!!)
However, I'm looking for a lovely holiday destination -- four/five star accom, great food, sights to see and a little chess exercise per day. (don't mindif it is only for Ian -- I I'm too low a player. I'll make him work and I can have cocktails, non alcohol of course, by the pool)
Any ideas - my school holidays are all of July and first two weeks in Aug.

PS nowhere where I have to get Jags or risk being bitten by beasties

GG

Entrants so far

Daniel Breslin (bye Round 1)
Chris Perkin
Ian Brownlee
Graham Forbes (Bye Round 1)
James Watson
Jo Weir
Gerry Paterson (bye Round 1)
David Potts
Bill Perrie
David McDonald
Andrew McCusker
Lawrence Freel
Rosie Giulian (Bye Round 1)
Richard Cameron


Need another 10 non EK entrants

EK Players Playing so far

Lennart Koehn
Alan Jelfs
Jim Johnston (Bye Round 2)
Frankie Murray
Tony Dunlop
Tom Brisbane (Bye round 1)
Jim Robertson

We will be broadcasting the Richardson Final tomorrow, after the criticism of only showing the top 4 boards last year so we could see some Spens / Campbell Rosebowl action, it will be all 8 boards.

I also have my camera back repaired

If either captain wants to send me their team so I can set up early (but not publish), I would be very grateful

The Bowes-Lyon Trophy, an individual tournament for players rated under 1600, will take place at the Edinburgh Chess Club from 30th April - 1st May.
Information can be found in the Chess Scotland calendar.
There is a restriction on the number of players who can play, but there are still plenty of spaces available.

Unfortunately I won't be around for the Largs congress this year, it looks like a great event again. I did see the following in the terms and conditions though:

ANY PLAYER ACCUSED OF CHEATING WILL BE EXPELLED FROM THE EVENT IF THEY DO NOT COMPLY WITH THE ARBITER’S INVESTIGATION.

However there is no mention of any penalty for wrongly accusing someone of cheating. Cheating doesn't seem to be a problem in Scotland thankfully but this rule seems quite dangerous.

Best wishes to all our Seniors playing in Haikidiki today. All eight games are live on ChessBomb Arena.

George

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Scotland are represented in the U2300 section by Ian Robertson, Raj Bhopal and a favourite Ayrshire sparring partner of mine Stephen Robinson.

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Scotland have two teams in the 65+ section. Scotland B have a very strong opponent in the shape of Russia in round 1.

What should happen if black completes their 34th move to secure the additional quickplay time. However blacks flag has fallen which is noticed after the 34th move has been completed.

This happened in a recent team match with no arbiter present.

I have noticed this happening in a number of competitions and I was wondering if one of the Arbiters can explain the reason behind this.

In the final round of the Premier there are 4 players who have 3 1/2 points. They are:

Player 1 with a coloring of WBWB
Player 2 with a coloring of BWBW
Player 4 with a coloring of BWWB
Player 7 with a coloring of Bye BBW

Players 1 and 2 have already played each other.

The draw that was made was:

1 (White) vs 7 (Black)
4 (White) vs 2 (Black)

This means that player 7 ended up with 3 black, 1 white and 1 Bye and this did not give them an equalise of colours.

Can someone explain this?