The grading deadline for receipt of new data is June 30. However the FIDE import on July 1 (eg 4NCL) will be included in this season's grades. There will be a couple of weeks of checking and new official season 2012-13 grades will appear online in mid July. The 2012 Scottish will be processed as first event of new season. The printed book will appear in late July.

Please send any result corrections, reports of missing data, changes of spelling, club, age etc before July 15 to <!-- e --><a href="mailto:grading@chessscotland.com">grading@chessscotland.com</a><!-- e -->

Hutch
You won a share in a grading prize at the Stewarton Bonnet Guild Chess Allegro on Sunday 10th June but I have no contact details for - you entered by phone.

Can you email me your postal address and I will send your prize on to you.

My email is <!-- e --><a href="mailto:john.montgomery@btinternet.com">john.montgomery@btinternet.com</a><!-- e -->

Thanks

Do you do it?
How do you do it?
How long do you spend doing it?
What has been the outcome?

etc...

I could say I've studied a bit, but not intesively or for an extended period of time. I've read Andy Burnett's book, as well as some from Jeremy Silman and a couple of other books with problems in them (and I've gone through games with a board too). All of these were very interesting reading, and I suppose I have improved as my grade has increased but I can't put my finger on exactly where or how I've improved. I also can't rule out that I've just improved by playing more, and I suspect it's probably a combination of the two.

Anyway, what are your experiences?

SWEDEN
Hello!

I am writing to you as tournament director of IM - tournaments in Sweden
(Lidkoping 120 km north of Gothenburg).

I am looking for players with ELO over 2250 primarily interested in playing
for winning IM-norms.
The tournament will be played over 9 days 12 players, 11 rounds.

Entry fee including accommodation is 6500 SEK.
The first tournament will be played in early October 2012.

It would be nice if we could get some player from your country.
The tournament will be followed on Internet (live-chess).

I want to thank you for taking the time to read this email, my hope
is that you pass it on to people involved in your union.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards

Peter Fransson
Tournament director

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ROMANIA
From: Arad Open 2012 [mailto:aradopen@gmail.com]
Sent: 16 June 2012 21:53
To: Sah Club Vados
Subject: Invitation to Arad PAB Romania Open 2012



We have the pleasure to invite you to 5th Arad PAB Romania Open 2012 which will take part in Arad (west of Romania, near hungarian border, 250 KM from Budapest), july 27th- august 2nd 2012. It will be a swiss 9 rounds open with the possibility to achieve international norms. Our prize fund was significantly increased, thus first prize is 1350 euro (more pricesely 6000 lei), total prize fund over 8000 euro for the main open.


This tournament is in our view a great possibility for foreign players to visit western Romania, with astonishing accommodation prices at top level hotels (from 13 euro/person/night in 4star Continental Forum Hotel) and very cheap possibilities of serving meals (6 euro lunch and 4 euro dinner in RetroRestaurant). In addition we prepared some interesting opportunities of spending the free time with our already very succesfull trips - wine tasting in Minis wineyard and canoe trips on the Mures river.

If it's not enough, you will certainly have fun in bughouse and blitz pairs tournament.

We hope you will enjoy our tournament and have a pleasant stay in Arad



More details about the tournament on our website:
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Info and registrations: <!-- e --><a href="mailto:aradopen@gmail.com">aradopen@gmail.com</a><!-- e -->
tel. +400722613128



You can connect our tournament with First Saturday in Budapest (250 Km from Arad, starts in august 4th) or oher interesting tournament in Drobeta Turnu Severin (Romania, 250 km from Arad) 3rd-8th of august 2012 <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.chessopen.net/">http://www.chessopen.net/</a><!-- m --> or even with European Rapid and Blitz Club Club – Bucharest 8th-12nd of august 2012 <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.eccrb.eu/">http://www.eccrb.eu/</a><!-- m -->



Best regards,

IO Alin Campeanu

Tournament Director

Mobile phone: +40-722-613128

This is just a quick plea for some sponsorship for the 30km that I managed to complete yesterday for the Dundee-St Andrews Summer Fun Run in just under 4 hours. All funds raised from the event will go directly to CLIC Sargent to help develop patient/carer support services for children with cancer in Dundee, Tayside and Fife.

I would just like to thank Alasdair Dawson who arranged the event which has proved a huge success, hoping that it will become an annual event.

JustGiving Link
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Thanks so much

A very battered and bruised Lloyd!!

Message from Jacqui:

Games gone to grade apart from 2. Leston D'Costa beat Declan & Lauren Bond beat Corbin Beaumont.

Those on 2/2 are Euan Gray, Monica Espinosa, Michael Doyle, Colin Howie, Leonardo Sani, Vagif Ramazanov, Leston D'Costa & Liam Richmond.

Activities this afternoon (thankfully rain has stopped).

Rounds 3 & 4 this evening.

I am testing the new software. it is still very much a beta version. I have 2 boards with me

Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
Round 4
Round 5
Round 6


Blog Day 1

Under 300:
1st Jack Stewart Greenwood Academy Irvine 6/6
2nd Oran Pathi Kirkhill PS Newton Mearns 5/6
3rd John Douglas Rockfield PS Oban 4.5/6 ( on tie-break)

Prizes for 50% and above:
4.5/6 Kyle McFie Paisley CC
Callum Smith Banchory PS Aberdeen
4/6 Joe McKie St Josephs PS Blantyre
Thomas Billcliff Lenzie Chess Academy
Aaron Copeland St John Ogilvie PS Irvine
Joe Pieroni Prestwick CC
3.5/6 Cole Harron Riverside PS Stirling
Marc Lees St Brides PS Cambuslang
3/6 Sam Harper Lanark CC
Aiden Connor Holy Cross PS Croy
Felix Esche Steiner School Edinburgh
Reece Kennedy Lenzie Chess Academy
Fraser Nelson Laurencekirk PS Angus
Daniel Dunn St Peters PS Edinburgh
Advaith Sastry Bearsden CC
Aaran Ghosh St Peters PS Edinburgh
Martin Lang Hallside PS Cambuslang

Under 600:
1st Andrew Gillies St Aloysius PS Chapelhall 5/6
2nd Stuthi Hegde George Heriots PS Edinburgh 5/6
3rd Fintan Pathi Kirkhill PS Newton Mearns 4/6

Prizes for 50% and above:
4/6 Andrew Bleakley Kilwinning
Dylan Bodrell Aberdeen
Robert Pirrie South Morningside PS Edinburgh
Megan Copeland Irvine
Tom Constance Lawhead PS St Andrews
3.5/6 Jake Sanger Prestwick CC
3/6 Leonard Holmes Laurencekirk PS Angus
Ben Volland Muckhart PS stirling
Saumya Maheshwari Edinburgh
Tariq Pasha Albyn School Aberdeen

Under 1000:
1st Euan Gray Mile End Aberdeen 5/6
2nd Leonardo Sani Castlehill CC 5/6
3rd Peter Eagles Albyn School Aberdeen4/6

prizes for 50% and above:
4/6 Leston Da Costa Aberdeen
3.5/6 Liam Richmond Rockfield PS Oban
Craig Gillies St Aloysius PS Chapelhall
Christopher Usher Paisley CC
Euan Dawson Lawhead PS St Andrews
3/6 Dan Clewitt Orkney
Rowan Pathi East Kilbride CC
Michael Doyle Holy Family PS Lenzie

A big thank you to John and the team for what proved to be another great Stewarton Allegro.

It really is brilliant the allegro is able to be held in conjunction with the Bonnet Guild, a bit of history with the future.

A big thank you must go out to all the volunteers who help out on the day, arbiters and kitchen staff who do a fantastic job feeding the chess playing hoards. £1.40 for a toastie and can of juice, virtually giving it away!

Not to mention the fact that many prizes were given out, including the ever popular family prizes. Such was the generoisty of prizes 2.5 was enough to gain a grading prize in the major for the under 1550 lol

Anyone that has never attended before I strongly recommend that you give it a go next year, ideal for the end of the season.

Peter Woods, Chess Suppliers <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.chesssuppliers.co.uk">www.chesssuppliers.co.uk</a><!-- w --> would be your best bet