At the AGM today, Ian was elected as Admin Director, Fiona both junior posts.  All motions passed (some with slight amendments) with the exception of merging the posts.

As a consequence, only Members of Chess Scotland can post in the forum.  As a result, all non members have now been set with read rights only.

There are some guest posters so you may see some people posting who are not members.  

If you are incorrectly prevented from posting, can you let Ian or myself know

Round 1 results

1             Brownlee, Ian      [0]      1:0    Marks, Ian A         [0] 
 2             Dunlop, Anthony    [0]   1:0    Donkin, Chris        [0] 
 3             McKay, Ruairidh    [0]    0:1    Doyle, James         [0] 
 4             McQuillan, Stephen [0]  1:0    McKay, Jonathan      [0] 
 5             Bye                             0:1    McCormack, Derek     [0]  
 6             Bond, Alexander    [0]   1:0    McClelland, Alastair [0] 
 7             Perrie, Bill       [0]         0:1    Smalls, Jim          [0] 
 8             Potts, David       [0]      1:0    McClelland, Declan   [0] 
 9             McAlroy, Kai       [0]      0:1    McKenna, John        [0] 
10           Murray, Frankie    [0]     1:0    Kearney, Martin      [0] 
11           Lawrie, Ken        [0]       0.5       Bye                      
12           Saemundsson, Thor  [0]  0     Default

Calum Smith on board 1 live boards

http://www.gibchess.com/junior/2017/live/main.htm

Hi, I saw this today. Excellent.

Venue 41, Hill Street which is a wee road between the west end of George St and Queen St.
It starts at noon.

(07-11-2016, 03:00 PM)harrymarron Wrote: Nice one!

A gentle reminder that the closing date for entries is tomorrow.

Entries are only accepted online and will not be accepted on the night.

If you miss the deadline then a begging email to dgclayton@btinternet.com would be your option.

Only 14 entrants so far so plenty of places left.

Come along, it'll be fun, honest.

Hi Guys

The Lanarkshire Chess League 2017 will be held at the Lay By 73 Main St, Salsburgh, Shotts ML7 4LW on Tuesday 12th Srptember 2017.  7.15 pm start

A formal agenda will be posted nearer the time.

Amongst the items on the Agenda will be a discussion aeising from matters arising from the CS AGM. Please send your attendtance confirmation to myself ian.brownlee@systemsit.co.uk

There may also be an application from Paisley CC to join the Lanarkshire Chess League and as well as another Lanarkshire Chess Club. More details nearer the time.

It would also be beneficial if clubs could send me approximate numbers of teams as a second division may be necessary this year

Ian Brownlee
Secretary, Lanarkshire Chess League

Hi Guys

if anyone else wants to play on Monday, please let me know asap.

Entry fees will be around £18 with a £2 discount for CS members. Juniors will also get a discount

Time control as usual is 1Hr plus 15 minute allegro.

The arbiter as usual is Tom Donohue.

The draw for each round will be posted here each week. If anyone wishes to have the draw sent by email, please ensure I have your email address.

Any help in setting up and putting away the equipment would be appreciated.

Lastly, the matches start at 7.30 PM. For the first week especially can everyone please be there for 7.15 pm for the first week. There will be a minutes silence for Jim Watson, who also supported this event

I really should do that arbiter course, but anyway:

If piece(s) knocked over and clock pressed, then either player can press the clock again until the board is setup appropriately by the offending piece-knocker-overer, yes?

e.g.
My move and I knock over some pieces (and press the clock).
It's then ok for either I, or my opponent, to quickly press the clock back to me until the board is reasonably back to normal?

I was playing board 2 for a GB team in the 15th IBCA Olympiad at Lake Ohrid Macedonia

Here are my results
B  loss v Serbia
W loss v Turkey
B  Draw v Romania
W Win  v Macedonia
B  Win  v Moldova
W Win  v Denmark
B  Win against Slovenia
B  Win v Italy
W loss v Ukraine

Giving me a grand total of 5.5/9