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Round 3

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Round 4

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Hi, hopefully someone can explain the following problem to me...

I have downloaded the Grading calculator program and have been entering my results for this season. However, I don't understand some of the adjusted grades being used. Take the following...

Opps Adj Used
1789 1789 1849
1475 1475 1849
1885 1885 1885
2059 2179 2179
2007 2007 2007
1619 1739 1849
2216 2336 2336
1569 1569 1849
2475 2475 2475
1846 1966 1966
2175 2295 2295

...why are the figures in bold 120 points different between actual and adjusted?

Cheers,
Andy Burnett

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The growth will also be on display at SNCL tomorrow.

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Thanks,

Alan Jelfs

A big thanks to Duncan Campbell and his squad of talented helpers for an excellent tournament.
There were some diffiulties presented to them by the entry of my friend who had severe mobility issues but they overcame them in a really sensitive way. So much so my well travelled friend said it was the best tournament he had ever been at.
Thanks to assistance from Arthur Guinness on Saturay my Sunday play was severely impaired but never the less it was a wonderful overall experience.
Cheers guys.

Round 7 in the World youth. Liam Richmond comes out of the hall after his game finishes to tell us that he won a rook on move 19. On move 20 the chief arbiter appeared, said that his Albanian opponent was ill and was declaring the game + - for Scotland. This effectively meant we got the point but Liam would not be credited with any grading points. We sought advice from home and decided to appeal. David Deary and I spoke to the chief arbiter in his office and he produced a medical certificate for Liam's opponent timed at 14.40 which he had received at 14.55 (The game started at 15.00). The Albanian player had missed the previous two rounds through illness. We suspect that the chief arbiter may have assumed that the Albanian boy was not going to turn up but realised two and a half hours into the game that he had. We lodged our appeal and our 100 euros deposit. The three panel appeals commitee included the Fide secretary-general. After some time considering, our appeal was successful and we were given the full result plus our deposit back. Thoughts?

As some of you may be aware, a situation arose this weekend in Oban regarding a certain player and a refusal to play on a live board. I don't want this to turn into anything personal or overly negative, but there were a large number of us seriously disgruntled by what went on that I feel it is worth raising so that something similar can either be avoided or fully clarified.

Live boards were in operation on the top 4 boards of the Open this weekend, in order that people watching could see some of the highest quality games played in Scotland purely for the entertainment and interest of spectators. After round 1, a request was made by the resident of the top board that he did not want to play on a live board, for what I believe was due to him feeling that he was disadvantaged by having games online which could be potentially used in future rounds for prep (matches are available on the same night in a database at most international tournaments by the way). As a result, you may have noticed that no moves were broadcast from this board for the rest of the event. Funnily enough, the IM in question seemed to be the only person who wasn't at the pub quiz on the Saturday night... Must've been preparing in his room for his game the next morning against my flatmate!

The reasons why some of us were upset is as follows:

These sensory boards were funded by the generous donations of CS members in order that games could be watched by people who either could not make the event, or do not play tournaments but still enjoy following them. By refusing to play on such a board seems somewhat selfish. It should also be noted that when one of Scotland's top players plays, the event becomes more interesting to everyone, including potential sponsors.

This player played the remainder of the games on a DGT board but with the transmission switched off. This seems a farce, as a perfectly functioning board was not being used to broadcast some of the other incredibly hard fought games in all 4 of the sections.

The thought of refusing due to prep issues during an event seems quite poor sportsmanship. Everyone is allowed to go and watch games, and even request to see duplicate scoresheets from the arbiter. Nobody really uses these games for preparation.

This is not meant as an attack on the person in question, but instead some clarification of what will happen in the future would be nice. As far as my own personal opinion goes, a clause should be inserted into all congresses that means all entrants agree that if they are due to play on a board which is being broadcast, it is being broadcast because the organiser feels it is something of interest to online followers, and therefore the game must be played on this board.

If anyone else has views on this it would be nice to hear them.

Having some issues, known in tech parlance as PEBCAK

Round 2
Round 3
Round 4
Round 5.

Seems to be quite a bit of interference on site which is causing a bit of havoc with the boards. Trying to find out who is broadcasting on channel 15...

[pgn]1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. Ng5 d5 6. exd5 Nxd5 7. Nxf7 Bxf2+ 8. Kf1 Ne3+ 9. Ke2 Bg4+[/pgn] Robin Johnson vs Jim Crawford

Dunfermline Knaves v Pentland Hills
Mussleburgh v Wandering Dragons
CSBos 2 v Irvine
Corstorphine v SJC
Woodmill Warriors v Dundee City Juniors

Under 300:
1st Siddharth Berera South Morningside 5/5
2nd Alen Shen Lenzie Chess Academy 4/5
3rd Jack Clelland Lenzie Chess Academy 4/5

Medals 50% and above:
3.5/5 Lewis Towle Bishopton
Rebecca Lamb Bishopton
3/5 Daniel Chamberlain Prestwick
Sambhav Chadha Glasgow Academy
Rachel Lorna Smith Irvine
Alexander Lonie Giffnock
Liam Wilson St John the Baptist Uddingston
2.5/5 Kyle Paterson Hamilton College
Carrick Simpson Hamilton College
Drystan Simpson Hamilton College
Ritvek Maheshwari Edinburgh

Under 600:
1st Tom Laing Prestwick 5/5
Arran Ghosh St Thomas Edinburgh 4/5
Advaith Sastry Bearsden 4/5

Medals for 50% and above:
3.5/5 Marc Lees St Brides Cambuslang
Beth McAlister St Anthonys Rutherglen
Andrew McNeil Paisley
3/5 Erin Allen St Anthonys Rutherglen
Jennifer Lowe Keir Hardie Motherwell
Aryaman Tyagi Giffnock
Aiden Connor Holy Cross Croy
Felix Esche Steiner School Edinburgh
2.5/5 Aaron Miller Hamilton College
Alexander Nicolson St Thomas Edinburgh
Kaleb Millar Hamilton College
Alix Smith Lenzie Chess Academy
Priyanshu Agarwal Edinburgh

Over 600:
1st Stuthi Hegde George Heriots 4/5
2nd Jack Stewart Greenwood 4/5
3rd Michael Doyle Hamilton 4/5

Medals for 50% and above:
3/5 Caitlin Reid Paisley
Ben Volland Muckhart
Fraser Kennedy Hamilton
Michael Campbell St Brides Bothwell
2.5/5 Rachel Lees St Aloysius Glasgow

Michael.