Just saw this on the Chessbase page.


1233 players at French Youth Championships


Wow!!!

Interesting article in the Telegraph today
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I found this while browsing Digg this evening

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Just to let everyone know that the 1st issue of SFC Monthly is now available for FREE!

Play through online, download as a pdf and download as a pgn file for your databases.

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Please feel free to share this link freely and widely (1st issue only please!) and I would appreciate any feedback, ideas and constructive criticism you might have.

Kind regards,
Andy Burnett

Need footballing arbiter here:

A player is in an offside position if three conditions are met: first, the player must be in the opposing team's half of the field. Second, the player must be in front of the ball. And third, there must be fewer than two opposing players between him and the opposing goal line, with the goalkeeper counting as an opposing player for these purposes.

Chelsea v Liverpool : Torres squared the ball to Willian to make 2-0. It was actually a forward pass. Why was Willian not offside ?

Can anyone list the new FIDE rules which have to be implemented and whether indeed we have to implement them ...

Results of NEJCA + SJC Chess for Kicks (CFK) event Saturday April 26th 2014 at Mastrick Community Centre, Aberdeen

U-300
1st Jakub Gryla (Laurencekirk) 5/5 (PQ)
2nd Cameron Barclay (Laurencekirk) 4/5 (Q)
3rd Vadim Dzevatovskis (Torry Academy) 4/5 (Q)
(2nd and 3rd places decided after play-off)

4th= (medals)
Kayla Stewart (Perth 3/5) (Q)
Fadia Bedawi (Albyn) 3/5
Pranav Saravanar (Albyn) 3/5
Kaylan Sai andan Kante (Westhill) 3/5
3rd qualification place decided after play-off between the 4 tied players

U-600
1st Oishani Dutta (Bromhill) 4.5/5 (PQ)
2nd Nandini Dutta (Bromhill) 3.5/5 (Q)
3rd Aiden Connor (Holy Cross) 3.5/5 (Q)
(2nd and 3rd places decided by result of individual match)

Medals
4th Mark Douglas (Albyn) (Q)
5th Keith Murray (Laurencekirk) (PQ)

U-1000
1st Tariq Pasha (Albyn) 4.5/5 (Q)
2nd Aaron Gourlay (Perth) 4/5 (Q)
3rd Atharva Dabholkar (Robert Gordons) 3/5 (PQ)

Medals
4th Nicholas Winter (Lathallan School) (PQ)
5th Andrei George (Aberdeen Grammar) (Q)

PQ, previously qualified, Q, qualified this event. The SJC Chess for Kicks final will be held on Saturday June 1st at Fir Park, Motherwell.

Junior/Adult Allegro
1st Jim Doyle (Stepps) 4/5
2nd Joy Durno (Newmachar) 4/5
(decided by result of individual match)
Best Junior
Nicholas Straw (Banchory Academy/Newmachar) 3/5

As usual, full results and photos at http://www.nejca.co.uk
Gerald Lobley

congratulations to my club Greenwood winning the Ayrshire League. This was the tightest finish ever with both Greenwood and champions of past two years, Kilmarnock, finishing on same points. First tie break
favoured Greenwood by 1 point. The Kilmarnock members, despite their disappointment, were generous in their congratulations.

I'd like to draw everyone's attention to the SJCA Educational Trust appeal (arranged in partnership with Chess Scotland) to raise funds to finance (at least) the full travel and accommodation costs of the twenty Scottish juniors involved in this year's Glorney International events (some 20 players in four separate team tournaments). This year's events will be hosted by Scotland (early August, Stirling).

All the necessary information is at the box at the head of the CS homepage, including the essential link to the relevant BTMyDonate donation page: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://mydonate.bt.com/events/glorney2014/124693">https://mydonate.bt.com/events/glorney2014/124693</a><!-- m -->

The donation page is extremely user-friendly and easy to use. The advantage of raising funds through a fully registered and regulated charity, such as the SJCA Educational Trust, is that donors can, if they wish, GiftAid their donations, as long as they are current UK taxpayers. This adds 25 pence wholly from the public purse to every £1 donated.

The trust itself is donating £1,000 quite separately. Since the trust's inception in 1969, it has always supported this important international event, now much expanded, expressly when Scotland is the host nation.

Donations can be made in complete anonymity or in name, with a message, if wished. Small amounts are welcome and indeed add up quickly if there are lots of them!

This is a very worthy cause (read the blurb at the BTMyDonate page). Do tell friends who don't access the noticeboard about it.

Having been a bit lax in updating progress I can now tell the world:

North East section was won by Declan Shafi, beating Leo Sani in the final round;
West and South East section was won by Ian Brownlee, beating Chris Donkin in the final round.

So Declan and Ian meet in the national final to decide the winner of the Nancy Elder tournament. They meet on 5th May at Stirling Chess Club.