Hi all,

Just to inform of upcoming Scottish junior participation in the following tournaments:

World Youth - Halkidiki, Greece (19th to 31st October 2018)

Under 16 Open - Sambhav Chadha

Under 14 Open - Jake Sanger


World Cadets - Santiago de Compostela, Spain (4th to 15th November 2018)

Under 12 Open - Sanjith Madhavan

Under 10 Open - Ishan Kumar

I have been trying to ascertain when and where this years AGM will take place. There is a distinct paucity of information.
The lead time for submission of motions, nominations for elections is substantial, now pushing the possible date into September and the new playing season.
Last year details of the AGM were published on July 8th, intended date August 19th, but that may have been altered.
I have been unable to find the minutes of last years AGM.

The Lanarkshire League AGM will again be held at the Layby Inn , Salsburgh on Wednesday 29th August at 7.30 pm Member clubs have items added to the Agenda by contacting me ian.brownlee@systemsit.co.uk. Topics discussed will include changing the time control to 75 minutes per player per game

Hi all,

So far I have received absolutely nothing about the Scottish Championship 'main event', and having not been there myself it makes it kind of difficult to report on it!

If anyone fancies writing up a nice piece on it, and others would like to annotate a game they played in it, please let me know asap! Deadline will be the 20th August.

Photos, etc also welcome!

Many thanks,
Andy Burnett

Hi Guys

Chess Scotland will be hosting a fund raising dinner on Friday November 16th at Ralston Golf Club in Paisley. Tickets for a three course set evening meal at priced at £30 per head with a vegetarian option if required. There should also be one or two guest speakers from the Scottish Chess Scene (any volunteers?) as well.

Please contact Ian Brownlee (07899 832770 or admin@chessscotland.com ) for further details. All monies raised will go towards Chess Scotland funds. Please send me any expressions of interest. If this is a success at all, we may replicate this at future events.

A fun night out will be had by all.

Does anyone have chessbase problems with Windows 10 ? I could hardly get it to work at the British Championships. It kept on hanging, freezing files, and it couldn't analyse games without putting in obscure symbols. Makes it very hard to play well.

Hi All
I am sorry to announce that due due to lack of interest the Lanark Open is cancelled this year...

The European Youth Chess Championships will be taking place in Latvia from the 19th to 30th of August.

Competing from Scotland will be:

Under 18

Euan Dawson

Under 16

Lukah Connolly-Sams

Under 14

Benjamin Ridge
Dietah Connolly-Sams
James Hartman

Under 12

Alasdair Sandham


All the best to our young international representatives.

Ruairidh

Good luck to Kalyan Kante, our Scottish representative at Jugendschach in Austria this year. Kalyan is taking part in the U14 Open section.

A nice news story there but was surprised that Paul Motwani does not appear in the list of youngest players? I'm sure I remember him telling me about his Olympiad trips when we were a University and pretty sure we were both teenagers at the time (long time ago )