Hi, please help me find any records of Ronald (Henry Jones) Malone. Born circa 1912 d 2012; an avid chess player in the Glasgow area. His clubs were (I think) Glasgow University, Howdens, he also play at the Kelvin Hall. Am unsure if the Kelvin Hall was a chess club at that time or a regular venue for tournaments. His playing days would have been around from 1932 until 1992. Any information, even just the confirmation of any of the above details would be great. Any of his games would be a fantastic bonus. Many thanks.

Across the Board with Dominic Lawson is on air again.

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Above links to BBC iplayer which will have the episodes.

As disability officer I an keen to hear from any clubs or players who may need assistance particularly from a disability point of view. Feel free to contact me on any matter.

4 Scots in action, IM Pritchett, FM Giulian, David Findlay, Alan Borwell.

Follow the action live on the official homepage: http://worldseniors2014.fide.com/

Player data: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr144386.aspx?lan=1

Rnd 1 Starts on Friday, 2pm UK time.

Thursday 23 October Arrivals
Friday 24 October 11:00 Technical Meeting
Friday 24 October 15:30 Opening Ceremony
Friday 24 October 16:00 Round 1
Saturday 25 October 16:00 Round 2
Sunday 26 October 16:00 Round 3
Monday 27 October 16:00 Round 4
Tuesday 28 October 16:00 Round 5
Wednesday 29 October 16:00 Round 6
Thursday 30 October Day off (excursion)
Friday 31 October 16:00 Round 7
Saturday 1 November 16:00 Round 8
Sunday 2 November 16:00 Round 9
Monday 3 November 16:00 Round 10
Tuesday 4 November 15:00 Round 11
Tuesday 4 November 21:00 Closing Ceremony

A 9 round swiss tournament with £3,000 in prizes, for players 2200 or above. Eligible for GM and IM norms. Sponsored by Brambles and The Friends of Chess.

Brambles Administration Hampstead International

15 – 23 December 2014

Format: 9 round swiss

Time Control: 40 moves in 90 minutes + 30 minutes with 30 second increment throughout.

Entry fee: depending on rating and title
Venue: TBC, but very likely Hampstead, London NW3

A 9 round swiss tournament restricted to 30 players, with £3,000 in prizes, for players 2200 or above. Eligible for GM and IM norms. Sponsored by Brambles and The Friends of Chess.

PRIZES

1st £1,000.00
2nd £800.00
3rd £500.00
4th £300.00
5th £200.00
6th £100.00

GMs receive free entry and a small fee, other players pay an entry fee based on title and rating as below;

IMs/WGM/WIM – £50.00
2300+ – £100.00
2250-2299 – £150.00
2200-2249 – £200.00

Time Control: 40 moves in 90 minutes + 30 minutes with 30 second increment throughout.

Prizes will be paid by bank transfer once the event has concluded.

Mind Sports Academy Finals
Multiple Chess Events 19 – 23 November 2014

Chess Mind Sports Academy Finals

What are you doing between Wednesday 19th and Sunday 23rd November 2014? Come and play chess in one of the best venues I have ever seen! This event is part of a Mind Sports Festival including Scrabble, Magic the Gathering, Go and others. We might even squeeze in some Shogi.

I'm proud to have been asked to run the chess events - let's make the chess the best part!

If you have five days and fancy winning a share of £10,000
If you have a weekend free
If you have spare time during the week
If you like rapid chess
If you like blitz chess - and fancy winning £600
If you have one evening
If you are Under 18

Then this has an event for you! The event will be broadcast live on the internet thanks to Dave Clayton, and the assistance of the ECF is gratefully acknowledged.

VENUE: ExCeL London Docklands, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, London E16 1XL (easy to get to by tube, has its own station! Custom House for ExCel)
Arbiters: Adam Raoof and Tim Dickinson; Thomas Thorpe and David Eustace (British Blitz Championships)

There are three main sections -

FIDE OPEN (£5,000 prizes, Arkell, Eggleston, Hebden, Gormally etc)
£2,000.00
£1,000.00
£750.00
£500.00
£250.00
£250.00
£250.00


FIDE Under 1900 (£2,000 prizes)
£1,000.00
£500.00
£300.00
£200.00

ECF graded Under 120 (£2,000 prizes)
£1,000.00
£500.00
£300.00
£200.00

Format: 9 round swiss. Time control: 90+30 seconds a move. Round times 10.30am and 3pm daily (one morning round on Sunday).
Gold+ ECF Membership required for English players in the FIDE events; Silver+ for all in the Under 120. All games also ECF graded.

WeekDAY Congress (ECF Graded), Weds 19 to Friday 21 (Round times 10.30am and 3pm daily plus one morning round on Friday) - Open, Under 160 and Under 120
Weekend Congress (ECF Graded), Friday 21 (one afternoon round on the Friday, round times 10.30am and 3pm daily) to Sunday - Open, Under 160 and Under 120 sections.

MSI FIDE Youth Championships a FIDE rated and ECF graded rapid tournament for players Under 18: Saturday 22nd November, £1,000 in prizes! Six rounds, starts 10.30am. One section.
FIDE Saturday Rapidplay, Four Sections: Open, Under 170, Under 145, Under 120. 10.30am start. Also ECF graded.

Official British Blitz Championships, Sunday 23 November 1pm, 11 rounds, FIDE rated, 11 rounds of Blitz chess at 3mins + 2 secs 1st prize £600 2nd prize £300 + grading prizes

ECF GRADED Rapidplays Wednesday, Thursday and Friday during the day from 11am
FIDE RATED Blitz tournaments on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday starting at 4.30pm

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I hope to see you there.

Anyone have results from the allegro today in Edinburgh?

I really like the format of this event. An outdoor bowling club venue that is not regularly used at this time of year but will probably welcome all business (and have very reasonable hire costs?). A fair entry fee with no prize fund but five games against players of a similar grade. Snacks/ coffee and tea provided.

I feel it's a format that should be utilised more throughout the calendar.

That's my "noticeboard" line. Now my family line...

My son (aged 28) has been playing chess for fun recently on an online basis. He wants to start playing more seriously on an over the board basis (nothing to do with me!) but is afraid of being outclassed if he jumps straight to congress level. I thought allegro to get some over the board games.....

If we had regular allegro tournaments at weekends with no emphasis on dosh but on games, a cup of coffee and a bite to eat and above all a blether about chess in Scotland who knows?

IM Pritchett is out in Denmark playing in the final round this morning. He is 5th seed and 1 of 11 titled players. Seems to be having a decent tournament as unbeaten and on 4.5/6 having played 4 out of the top 10. Board 1 agreed a quick 15 move draw , putting them both on joint 1st on 5.5/7.

If Craig, playing white can win his game in progress now, he will also finish joint 1st on 5.5/7.

Follow all the action live right now at: http://larsen.skakteam.dk/

:bash: Every time I go to CS website I get pestered by sites telling me to fill in surveys. Is everyone getting this or have I got a virus.


I've just checked this post and some of the words are blue and underlined. If you hover over them you get more adverts -- please don't. what's going on? How do I fix it??
Please advise!!

GG

I am surprised that there does not seem to be a topic open on this already (maybe there is and I did not search enough). When I renewed my membership my attention was drawn to this and I am glad it was because I might have missed it as I do not look at the Chess Scotland web-site very often: as one gets older one realises that a person has a limited time so concentrates on the important. I am concerned that yet more rules are being imposed on chess players who only want to play chess and that these might be hidden to some players: those not from Scotland or not on the interweb or those, like me, who think it is already a big effort to keep up with the real rules. To look at some of the specifics: I looked at the section on general principles and could not find any - I was hoping for something like Jesus' principle of love which, if you keep to, a person would almost be sure to be keeping the main laws of Judaism. Instead - just words. The important section for me is Chess Scotland Members. This begins by stating that members do not bring the game into disrepute - I thought that was already in the laws. Then the next important section, for me, is Players. It begins with arriving late. I cannot think of an instance where a player would arrive late without a good reason since the player will already be losing time or the game. The second is agreeing a result in advance of a game: I can see where this is coming from but this action can be innocent - for example in one congress it was the last round and my opponent, an older person like myself, wanted to get home early; so I asked him if he was offering a draw and if he had been I could see no harm in it as we were bot out of the running anyway. Deliberately failing to play one's best - how can anyone know if this is deliberate? Unreasonably failing to resign a lost game - what is unreasonable? what is lost? An example of the abuse of this "principle" is that of Peter MacFarland (not Para Handy but of the Wandering Dragons) when he was playing in a simultaneous at the Edinburgh chess club and had sacrificed a piece for a mating attack only to be told that he was a piece down and must resign. Failing to dress appropriately - a matter of opinion surely. Playing while unfit to do so - most older people are unfit: are we to be banned? Failing to submit results - I have always taken the view that it is in the interests of the winner to submit results otherwise the organiser could default both. Showing disrespect for the officials - always a dangerous thing to do anyway since they can impose penalties anyway - but sometimes an arbiter can be wrong! Ethics are important but they are for judging a person's own behavior, not others. Also they need to be simple - not a set of rules. If these are to be used for judging others and imposing penalties then make them part of the rules, subject to the usual scrutiny of rules to make sure that they are fair and enforceable. This is a long statement therefore there are probably some holes or misconceptions in it but this is a subject that needs to be talked about before those people who like to tell other people what to do, because they love power, tighten their vice-like grip on ordinary people (not a complaint about chess - yet, but as Tony Benn said "each generation must fight again for its freedom").