...are just waiitng to be handed out.

We run a closed shop a tournamnt with all the Scottish GM's and three chosen candidates.
The GM's lose all their games to the chosen candidates.

The beauty of it is it won't cost a penny to run. We make up the games....
...infact we won't even have to bother doing that. We will just nick already played games.

To far fetched?

The Don Cup, Azuv, Russia, 2010 handed out 3 GM norms and 3 IM norms. (Congratulations)
Apparently The tournament is to be the subject of an investigation due to one or two (or six) things that have come to light.

Six games from each event match up 100% move for move. Here is just one.
Yes you can get duplicate games in well known GM prepetual/draws but six identical games from two tournaments?
Six long identical games that produce a positive reuslt in each one? I don't think so.

D. Yamnov - V.Eryomenko, Don Cup, Azov, Russia 2010

and…

Mobile Chess - Sjeng, 16th World Computer Chess Championship Beijing, 2008

White hanging on letting Black get two Queens to mate him is clear computer play.
A human at that level would resign. They should have used a different game or tampered with the ending.

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[pgn]1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd2 a6 8.0-0-0 h6 9.Be3 Bd7 10.f4 b5 11.Bd3 Be7 12.Rhe1 0-0 13.Nxc6 Bxc6 14.Bd4 b4 15.Nb1 e5 16.fxe5 dxe5 17.Bxe5 Qa5 18.Bd4 Rfd8 19.c3 Rac8 20.e5 Rxd4 21.exf6 Bxf6 22.cxd4 Ba4+ 23.Bc2 Bg5 24.b3 Bxb3 25.axb3 Qa2 26.Re8+ Rxe8 27.Qxg5 hxg5 28.g3 Rc8 29.Rd2 Qxb3 30.d5 Qa2 31.Kd1 Rxc2 32.Rxc2 Qxb1+ 33.Kd2 b3 34.Rc8+ Kh7 35.d6 Qa2+ 36.Ke3 Qxh2 37.Kf3 g4+ 38.Kxg4 Qe2+ 39.Kh4 g6 40.Kh3 Qe6+ 41.Kh2 Qxc8 42.Kg2 b2 43.Kh2 Qc2+ 44.Kh3 b1Q 45.Kh4 Qh2+ 46.Kg4 Qf5[/pgn]

You can get the 2010 Azov games here:

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...and the 16th World Computer Chess Championship 2008 games from here.

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The Andorra 19 are turning into the Badalona 4, for those of us who can't get enough of chess in the sun! Myself, Andrew Green, Clement Sreeves, and Michael Grove are all playing in the A section (2150+) of the Badalona Open starting on 2nd August. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://chess-results.com/tnr69821.aspx?http://chess-results.com/Tnr95026.aspx?lan=9">http://chess-results.com/tnr69821.aspx? ... aspx?lan=9</a><!-- m -->

Quote:Hi

I am writing to inform that we have confirmed dates for the second edition of BelleVue Chess, which will be from 13 to 20 October in Alcudia (Mallorca).

New this year is that there are two tournaments, one for players under 2000 FIDE and another for players under 2400 FIDE.

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Greetings.
BelleVeue Chess

Just to let you all know I am about to do some maintenance on the board as we are having a few problems.

The board may be down for a few hours (or even not at all :D). I have taken a backup in case I break it!

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Jonathan Grant is playing

Hi

The first link no longer works - I tried to get sound in sinc and broke it.

http://youtu.be/5DRv6e4YelM
(Andy can you delete the first linkin the first thread. Cheers)

This newer version is a bit better but the whole concept is naff.

I would appreciate thoughts, opinions, suggestions and criticism of a possible series of girls only events outlined below. This is very much at an early stage of planning.

The objective behind the idea should be fairly obvious.

Scottish Elite Girls All Play All League
The basics
Individual competition for junior girls who would be eligible to participate in the 2014 Jessica Gilbert Cup for Scotland.

Four leagues of six players.

Series of five round, all play all events over the season to be held at various locations.

Incremental time control. Two day events - All moves in 60 minutes with 30 second increments. Three day events – same as congress the all play all would run alongside.

No charge for participation.

Strong coaching support available at all events.

Player who scores most points over the season will be awarded the Scottish Elite All Play All title.

Initial event
Initial League make-ups based on grading as published in the 2013 grading list.

All play all over a weekend. Prize for Division 1 winner for each weekend event.

Top player in Div 2, Div 3 & Div 4 promoted.

Bottom player in Div 1, Div 2 & Div 3 relegated.

Subsequent events
Division 4 will comprise the player relegated from Division 3 plus the five highest graded, available players not already participating in Divisions 1 to 3 based on live grades one calendar month before the start of the event. In other words players who played in Division 4 in the previous event must qualify again for the fourth division by remaining higher graded on the live list.

Possible dates and possible venues (all to be confirmed – only suggestions)
19-20 Oct Edinburgh Chess Club
2-3 Nov Perth
30 Nov - 1 Dec Stirling
24-26 Jan Ayr - South Ayrshire Congress
8-9 Feb Edinburgh Chess Club
1-2 Mar Edinburgh Chess Club
15-16 Mar Aberdeen
14-27 Apr Easter Event around this time
23-25 May Ayr - Ayr Congress
6-8 Jun Inverness - Highlands and Islands Congress

Hi

On Monday I picked up a smashing digital/vid camera complete with a 8 GB card, battery charger
and batteries for a couple of quid in a second hand shop in Haddington.

Thought I'd try it out.

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I believe that it was Sean Milton who once said to me that "Chess Scotland moves too slowly at times" and I have to agree with that at times.

Neither Andy, Hugh or I have been comfortable with what has been going on recently, we have been asked to moderate more in the last month or so than we have since I took over as moderator nearly 10 years ago. To be blunt we have been in an impossible position.

Hamish and the three of us have got together to discuss what to do to try and bring this all together and we have agreed as a group to the do the following from now on.

"CS Moderators should take the following line until discussion at the AGM

(i) Moderators will remove personal attacks on anyone, whether it be President, Directors,
members or non-members. For the first instance the person will receive a warning. If it persists then the person will be placed in a group that requires their posts to be checked prior to posting

(ii) Every time a post is removed, the moderators should say it has
been removed and why - e.g. offensive, abusive or obnoxious
etc."

Chess Scotland is not above criticism and there are things that have been going wrong that we need to fix. We cannot continue with personal attacks on everyone from the President to non-members and it has to stop.

If you wish to continue posting, it is implied that you agree with the above statement.

I am now going to change the posting statuses of everyone that has been changed recently as we are starting with a clean slate as of today.

I hope everyone agrees with this and we can start to move on and resolve the issues that are holding us back

Regards

Andy Howie

To both sides of this protracted and quite heated debate.

I want you to take 45 mins out and watch an old Star Trek Episode. The details for it are here

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708435/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Watch it and think about the message because that is ultimately where we are heading at the moment