Children in Need is coming and an interesting chess challenge has been accepted at Keele University.
Staffordshire chess player and ECF Arbiter Matthew Carr is performing a 24 hour chess marathon at Keele University to raise money for Children in Need. Facing him in this challenge is Fraser Greenroyd, Matthew’s best friend and fellow madman. Its a game of skill vs Endurance. Matthew has the skill and tactics to be able to take Fraser down but not the endurance to make it last at high a level for 24 hours. Fraser may not be as powerful but is more than capable of lasting foe the entire duration. Who will win and how will the games go? Lets find out.
When & Where: Keele University Library foyer, Starting at 12pm on Friday 16th November until 12pm Saturday 17th November.
Time Control: All moves in 20 minutes + 10 seconds per move.
Rules: The game shall be played according to the FIDE Rapidplay laws of chess. We will play as many games as we can using the time control in 24 hours. 1 point for a win and ½ point for a draw. Whoever has the most points at the end of 24 hours will be declared the winner.
Boards and Equipment – For this challenge we will be using a DGT live board. The games will be broadcast online for the whole 24 hours so everyone will be able to keep track of our progress and who has the most points.
All are welcome to come and watch our progress and see how well we are getting on. We will have a donation bucket by us so feel free to come and donate any money you have to our cause. If you are unable to come and see us in person then you can donate money to our cause online. The donation website is at: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.justgiving.com/MatthewCarr-FraserGreenroyd">http://www.justgiving.com/MatthewCarr-FraserGreenroyd</a><!-- m -->
The website with the live games on will be announced at a later date.
You can also follow our preparations on facebook at:
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Finally the children in need website is: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008dk4b">http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008dk4b</a><!-- m -->

Hope this helps

Please give generously for Children in Need :U

Results of NEJCA event at Portknockie, Moray Saturday November 10th 2012

P5& Under
1st Nathan Roulson (Albyn School) 5/5
2nd Leonard Holmes (Laurencekirk PS) 4/5
3rd Rafal Wilowski (Banchory PS) 3/5
4th Oishani Dutta (Broomhill PS) 3/5

P6 & 7 (Portknockie Primary Shield)
1st Andrei Gheorghe (St Josephs) 5/5
2nd Atharva Dabholkar (Robert Gordons) 3.5/5
3rd Callum Smith (Banchory PS) 3/5
4th= (3/5) Thomas Stidolph (Banchory PS), Nandini Dutta (Broomhill PS), Mitchell Adam (Portknockie)

Open/Secondary
1st Nicholas Straw (Banchory Academy) 5/5
2nd Tariq Pasha (Albyn School) 4/5
3rd Paul Kaniowski (Buckie High) 3/5

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Next Event: Sunday, December 9th, at Albyn School, Aberdeen

Are these published somewhere? If so, can someone point me in right direction. Thanks

this is from tuesday 6th November league game Musselburgh 2 vs Wandering Dragons 4[pgn][Event "League Match"]
[Site "The Polish Club"]
[Date "2012.11.06"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Anne Donkin"]
[Black "Jim Crawford"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[BlackElo "1046"]
[WhiteElo "1215"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 d5 5.exd5 Na5 6.Qe2 Nxc4 7.Qxc4 Nxd5 8.d3 c6 9.Nc3 Bb4 10.a3 Bxc3+ 11.bxc3 h6 12.Nf3 f6 13.O-O Be6 14.Re1 Qd6 15.Qe4 Nxc3 16.Qg6+ Kf8 17.Bb2 Nd5 18.Nxe5 Nf4 19.Qg3 fxe5 20.Bxe5 Qd7 21.Qxf4+ Qf7 22.Bd6+ Ke8 23.Qxf7+ Kxf7 24.Re3 Rad8 25.Be5 Rhe8 26.Rae1 g6 27.f4 Rd5 28.g4 Bxg4 29.Kg2 Bf5 30.Kg3 h5 31.h4 a6 32.Ra1 Ra5 33.Rae1 Ra4 34.Bd6 Rxe3+ 35.Rxe3 Be6 36.Kf2 b6 37.Re4 Rxe4 38.dxe4 Bg4 39.c3 b5 40.Bb4 Ke6 41.Ke3 Bd1 42.Kd4 Bf3 43.Ke3 Bg4 44.Kd4
1/2-1/2[/pgn]

I've heard, through the loud beating of jungle drums, that the IJD is being a hard time over his board's selection, this year, for Liverpool. Does anyone on the board have any comment to make or do we have to treat silence as implied assent to recent criticism whether it is fair or not? There is a truly ugly rumour going around that a commercial interest has to some level dictated the choice of players this year. Personally, I find such an allegation insulting and barely credible! It would, nevertheless, be very helpful to be reassured, as a member of Chess Scotland, of the complete probity of the selectors. I fully appreciate that they often have hard decisions to make and can never please all of us all of the time. It is surely inevitable, on occasion, that some child will be passed over in favour of another with closely similar claim to selection. At the end of the day, there are only a limited number of places. All the more reason, then, that procedures are seen by everyone to be as equitable as human judgement allows them to be. I am personally unhappy with the idea of considering only those Juniors whose parents make their interest known. Why, for example, is an invitation based on merit considered to be such 'old hat'? I look at a potential situation where definite interest has been expressed on-line but the offer is subsequently declined. I ask myself how I would, as a parent, feel about that refusal. I would now want to be told very authoritatively that the guidance offered as to selection procedure by Chess Scotland has been conscientiously adhered to. A couple of fairly recent resignations from the Board leave me with the unhappy impression that all is not well and that, perhaps, a greater level of transparency is now, as always, required. =| ? All my best wishes and good luck, BTW, to our 'squad' in Slovenia-they'll certainly need it! =) Chris L

does anyone know what year she presented prizes at Langside Hall champs ?
I have a photo from my archives I wish to add

I was playing a game at my chess club last week at Musselburgh and both me and my opponent were short of time I just promoted a pawn and said queen please which my opponent change the pawn for a queen then his flag fell and he said that he should not have to change the pawn for a queen in his time and went on to say the game was null in void which I just laughed at and I walked away now this was a friendly game but was wondering what is the correct procedure for the promoting of a pawn to a queen is it your opponents job or your own ? Thanks for you help in this matter.

Jim Crawford

Does anyone know whether the Law Society Chess event is liable to re-surface and if so who is in charge?

The domain is due to expire at the end of the month and needs to be renewed @ a cost of £20 or so (I think from memory). If someone is wanting to keep that domain going (and has the funds :-) ) please can you contact me. [ chess at neuroscot.co.uk]

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Press Release
'School Chess Ltd. has launched a ground breaking website for school chess clubs http://www.schoolchess.net/en which is designed to facilitate live chess play between children and young people inschools and school chess clubs throughout the UK and beyond. Junior chess clubs are springing up all over the UK, both in schools and outside and numbers in existing clubs have mushroomed in recent years. All this shows that chess is one of the most enjoyable and exciting ways for children to learn how to think.
The site provides a safe learning environment for all users with absolutely no on-site advertising or pop-ups. The only personal information stored is a player's first name and surname initial. Teachers & players can access and review all their past games and learn from over 1,000 teaching and 'master' games stored on the site.
For players, <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.schoolchess.net">http://www.schoolchess.net</a><!-- m --> gives them the chance to test their chess strength against the whole world! It places them at the forefront of technology, and it has the capacity to liberate them from any staleness in their own chess club - there's a whole exciting world out there to explore and we open the gate.
Hassle-free online chess for schools. Teachers are automatically notified by email when invitations to play are received from other schools; so there's no reason to miss a potential match ever again. Whether it’s finding the perfect opponents using the clever search facility, or choosing a randomschool to play, the teachers love it. Itinerant chess teachers can be linked to multiple schools – a great feature.
When playing overseas opponents, a full auto-translation service is available, meaning teachers can chat in their own language, and players will understand messages too.
www.schoolchess.net offers a tailor-made educational website to children and young people in order to learn how to play chess, to improve their skills and to gain more match play experience.

Let me know if I can help further.

All the best,

Ian (Masson)'

I recommend this innovation as being a good solution for busy teachers/coaches and schools that don't happen to own a minibus! Chris H. =)

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first match of the season, well played Edinburgh 4