Just to take people's attention away from Council meetings and board moderation, I'd like to report the following discovery:

47 + 5 + 3 = 121

At least, that's what the list of entrants for this year's Scottish Championships appears to be saying.

Now, if we could just apply the underlying principle to Chess Scotland's bank accounts, we wouldn't miss the Government grant.

Thanks to everyone who has supplied data this season.

The grading year ends officially on June 30.

Please send any outstanding data by then.

The next Fide import of outside Scotland data will be included on July 1.

The 2013 Scottish Championships will be processed using new 2013-14 grades. The Championships will be included twice in the Grand Prix as the final event of 2012-13 season and the first event of 2013-14.

There will be a period of error checking for a couple of weeks in July before we close off the list for the year. So please send any additional information e.g. junior ages, spellings, change of club etc by July 14 and it can be incorporated into the finalised list.

The new season will start online as soon as checking is completed.

There will be a printed list which will be sent to all graders and congress organisers.

Dear All

The Jessie Gilbert Celebration International Chess Festival will again take place in the later half of August this year. We are open for entries.

Details can be seen from the festival home page:
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We have the following events:
* Open Norm Swiss event (11 rounds - see web site for exact schedule)
* Sections-4-all (anyone rated under 2000) events (2 weekend only events + 2 midweek events).
* Junior training days (including one where we will train new players from scratch).

Kind regards

Scott Freeman
CCF Activities Coordinator
English Chess Federation Accredited Coach & Arbiter
FIDE International Organiser & Arbiter
(CCF is an English Chess Federation Centre of Excellence)

Morning,

I am having problems with my router (I think) which is preventing me from logging in to confirm the venue. it is the Premier Inn at Charing Cross, Glasgow, same as the AGM. Apologies for this

It is my unfortunate duty to announce that Andrew Kilgariff, a Chess Scotland Life Member, died yesterday 15 June 2013. The following affectionate memories were written by his brother, Norman.

Chess was one of Andy’s life long loves. He taught me chess in the 1950s when he was about 10, I was about 5, though it was five years before I learned that en passant wasn’t cheating. I remember playing him ‘best out of ten’ in the mid 1960s for a tube of Smarties a game. He was winning 7-0 but game 8 was a different story.

He was about 4 pieces down, I was so busy nudging his king around I missed a cheapo and he pulled off an incredible swindle. 8-0. I hadn’t a clue that he had any chance of counterplay at all, but as he delivered ‘mate’ he leapt in the air ecstatically a few times, jumped over the couch, lapped it repeatedly chanting ‘yes ya beauty’ as I looked at the board in disbelief. It ended 10-0, but rather than take ten tubes of Smarties from me, he kindly settled for a box. Perhaps if I had been a better chess player he wouldn’t have got so fat.

We would play from time to time, sometimes not for years, and never again for Smarties, but in the 1980s I discovered the Cathcart Chess Club and chess gradings. Andy had heard about chess gradings before and had told me, we really wanted one but didn’t know where to buy them. Now I could explain it and in no time he joined RAF Leuchars Chess Club and never looked back.

Andy became very active in the TAFCA area, he liked to encourage & support chess ventures, whether shops, organisations, events or whatever. He just loved chess. We played each other Correspondence for years and OTB whenever possible. I think he set up the Cupar Chess Club when he was the Heidy at the primary school and then, years later, he moved to Perth. Deteriorating health will have curtailed his chess activity lately of course.

Chess gave him a lot of pleasure throughout his life and he gave a lot back. Now he has castled queen side.

After Round 2

2/2
Atharva Dabholkar, Declan Shafi, Euan Gray, Angus Matthews, Vagif Ramanasov

1.5 /2
Michael Doyle, John Morrison, Andrew McMillan

1/2
Euan Dawson, Leonard Holmes, Andrei Gheorgie, Matthew Billcliff, Tom Constance, Jonathan Bentick, Martin Lang, Anoop Babu, Callum Smith, Brodie Aitken, Matthew Walls, Euan Dunbar, Annalise Thomas, Joe McKie, Archie Kemp

0.5/2
Ben Volland

0/0
Sophie Bond, Lauren Bond, Robert Pirrie, Tristan Silverwood, Rachel Smith

Quote:David Deary wrote: Why has a post been removed from this thread? Unless I imagined it, there was another post on this thread.

I am beginning to get tired at the excessive level of moderation on this forum. In the recent past, topics have disappeared and posts deleted without any consultation or communication. In my view, It’s another reason that this forum is dead compared to the old one. It is odd that personal attacks are allowed to stand on this ‘public’ forum against certain posters and legitimate points that cannot be construed as an attack are removed.

I would ask the moderators to seriously consider whether they are applying the forum rules linked below.
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The Lanarkshire Chess League will be held on thursday 27th June 2013 at the University of the West of Scotland in Hamilton 7.30 PM Any club wishing to submit any points for the Agenda please submit them to me (<!-- e --><a href="mailto:Ian.brownlee@systemsit.co.uk">Ian.brownlee@systemsit.co.uk</a><!-- e -->) ASAP and I'll get them inserted. I will also endeavour to email out the proposed agenda nearer the time. I am also available by mobile telephone 07899 832770

Ian Brownlee

Sorry it has taken so long...

New Games Available on the CS DOWNLOADS page from...

Oban 2012 - thanks to Alistair Campbell
Glenrothes 2012 - thanks to George Pyrich
Glenrothes 2013 - thanks to George Pyrich

Currently being entered - Hamilton Stars Barred 2013

Will the live boards be used at the Primary Individual this weekend? It was great to watch the games last year.

Good luck to all who are taking part and I hope the new location is as enjoyable as Dolphin House was.