Hi all,

Despite some difficulties with airport transport, our 2 representatives Sanjith Madhavan and Ishan Kumar have started very well indeed! Both are without a FIDE rating going into the competition but that is sure to change very soon with the trouble they are causing to highly graded opponents.

Sanjith is in the Open under-12 tournament and has opened with 2 draws - firstly to Jaime Alcon Llosada (Andorra) rated 1715 and then to Matteo Metzdorf (Germany) rated 1865.

Ishan has started impressively as well in the Open under-10 tournament with a loss in Round 1 but then a draw with Juan Esteban Medina (Colombia) rated 1332.

Round 3 was suspended today due to weather conditions.

All are welcome to an educational chess session at Glasgow Polytechnic Chess Club.

Thursday 8th November, at 7.30pm

Iain Swan will demonstrate a couple of exciting, attacking games from contemporary super-grandmaster praxis.

Once again people have gone home from SNCL without heir belongings.

A chess book. 

A packet of cigarettes.

If you can correctly describe these items we will give them back.

A fancy drinks bottle. We left it at the venue. If you are in the area go and get it otherwise hopefully it will be kept until next meeting. After that it will be thrown out.

A black king also went missing  in the analysis room. If you accidently took it home, can we have it back please.

Hope you all enjoyed the day.

GG

Will post grading tomorrow

Todays Results

Division 1
Division 2
Division 3
Division 4

Scotland's IM Stephen Mannion and Jonathan Grant are among the extremely strong field in this tournament, starting today. Good luck gents!

http://chess-results.com/tnr385685.aspx?...turdet=YES


Live games and commentary can be found at the site below...


https://iominternationalchess.com/
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Scotland's IM Stephen Mannion and Jonathan Grant are among the extremely strong field in this tournament, starting today. Good luck gents!

http://chess-results.com/tnr385685.aspx?...turdet=YES


Live games and commentary can be found at the site below...


https://iominternationalchess.com/

Dear all,

The World Youth Chess Championships are starting now in Halkidiki, Greece until the 31st of October. Scotland has 2 representatives:

1) U16 Open - Sambhav Chadha

2) U14 Open - Jake Sanger

Good luck to both of you! 

Ruairidh

I have good news and I have bad news. The good news is that the response has been so unexpectedly good that I have now done something I never expected to have to do (the bad news for any latecomer) - closed the congress to new entries (but as there is an odd number in both Major and Minor we would take one more in each).

We are at 134: the room given to the Open is full and the other area for Major and Minor is at a level where I would worry about becoming cramped. We will know better for next year if the large area could take more but caution rules for this year.

.

No Scottish teams taking part this year, unfortunately, but both Adam Bremner and Danny McGowan are playing - for Grantham Sharks - with all games transmitted live at the link below...

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tourna...018/1/12/1

It's that time again. The dates are 4th and 25th Nov, 24th of Feb and March.  Entry deadline 26th Oct.

I have completed entry forms and will send them to Karen Howie and Douglas Bryson for delivery to clubs and website calendar. However, I am happy for you to add your intention to participate on this site so that everyone can see who has entered.

Fee is £100 for team of 5, seven games each ----- great value!!!

Venue still at Carnegie Conference Centre, Dunfermline.

GG