Zebras are defaulting on Sunday due to clash of tourneys. If your team is supposed to play them PLEASE contact Andy Howie to find out if you need to attend for game 1. Game 2 opponents will be able to go home early if you are not needed.

Remember it is possible for other teams to be defaulting individual boards so the five players could probably get a gradable friendly if they are there.

GG

I have been advised of the death of George Dickson on 13 February 2017.
Born in Edinburgh, he showed great talent as a junior. He was Scottish Boys' champion in 1955 and a member of Scotland's Glorney Cup team in 1955, 1956 and 1957, scoring 8/8.
He played in several Scottish Championships, coming 2nd behind Dr Aitken in 1957, 1958 and 1961.
George later moved to England, playing with the Metropolitan CC in London and in Middlesex County events.
His brief bio is at <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://chessscotland.com/history/biographies/dickson_g.htm">http://chessscotland.com/history/biogra ... kson_g.htm</a><!-- m -->

Alan McGowan
Historian, Chess Scotland

Gosh how time flies.

SNCL is on this weekend, Sun 26th Feb at Carnegie Conference Centre.

Please bring the trophies with you so that I have them for next month's prizegiving, thx.

GG

UNDER 300:
1st = Brodie McCann Holy Cross PS Croy 5/6
James Coyle Glasgow Academy 5/6
Louis Brownisky Lenzie Chess Academy 5/6
( on tie break Brodie got 1st place trophy, James 2nd and Louis 3rd )

Medals for 50% and above:
4.5/6 Rong Sheng Xia St Marys PS Hamilton
4/6 Kai McIlroy Lanark CC
Aryan Bunshi Hillhead PS
Abhiram Kandela St Patricks PS Glasgow
3.5/6 Pragna Aluri Our Lady of the Missions PS Giffnock
Ishan Rohatgi High School of Glasgow
3/6 Zander O’Donnell Bishopton
Aaron Rankin Bishopton
Kartike Sharan Hillhead Kumon CC
Connor Livingstone Holy Cross PS Croy
Ibrahim Khan High School of Glasgow

Qualifiers for CFK Final in June are, Brodie McCann, James Coyle, Rong Sheng 4/6
Xia, Kai McIlroy, Aryan Bunshi, Abhiram Kandela.

UNDER 600:
1st Sophie Heron Holy Cross PS Croy 5/6
2nd Lewis Ng Lenzie Chess Academy 4.5/6
3rd= Emma Heron Holy Cross PS Croy 4/6
Pranav Aluri Our Lady of the Missions PS Giffnock 4/6
( on tiebreak Emma got 3rd place trophy and Pranav got a medal)

Medals for 50% and above:
3.5/6 Sean McCann Holy Cross PS Croy
3/6 Zayd Khan High School of Glasgow
Alina Tang Lenzie Chess Academy
Florence Wilson Flora Stevenson PS Edinburgh
Declan McClelland Lanark CC

Qualifiers for CFK Final in June are, Sophie Heron, Lewis Ng, Emma Heron, Pranav Aluri.

UNDER 1000:
1st Liam Heron Holy Cross PS Croy 5/5
2nd = Mark Heron Holy Cross PS Croy 3/5
Luke Joyce Holy Cross PS Croy 3/5

Qualifiers for CFK Final in June are, Liam Heron, Mark Heron, Luke Joyce, Abhi Reddy.

Allegro:
1st Chris Hampton Wandering Dragons 4/5

Michael.

Due to a clash with junior chess events on 26th Feb 2017 “Queen’s Gambit” is looking for 2-3 players for our SNCL Division 4 team.

All abilities most welcome!
Find us on the day or reply to this post!!
SNCL info and venue: http://snclchess.co.uk/2016/06/dates-201...nge-venue/

“Queens Gambit” started as a team for those who support (and transport!) juniors to chess events, but didn’t normally have much opportunity to play real chess themselves (Mums, Dads, club organisers & juniors!).

See this link for our team members to date:
http://chess-results.com/tnr244400.aspx?...t=1&wi=821

Our inspiration is Liz Sams’s who has done so much for junior chess, and recently took the plunge into playing some real chess herself!

How about a condition that to have your name on the published list of Chess Scotland approved coaches comes with an agreement and expectation to provide 100hrs+ of free coaching activity per year?

The details of what anyone's 100 hrs might be can be at the discretionary approval of the board and/or junior director - e.g. some might already be helping out at schools etc, or occasionally doing even more assisting in events which should obviously count. Still, the principle is reasonable: if our name's on the list then we provide an element of quantifiable free service in support of junior Chess. There would not be any stringent "audit" as such ; it's more about setting clear expectations and honourably delivering on them for the benefit of having the listing - and the support in obtaining the necessary CP certification.

Just a thought.

UNDER 7:
1st Ruaridh Robertson St Brides PS Cambuslang
2nd Ekavira Singh High School of Glasgow

UNDER 8:
1st Sophie Heron Holy Cross PS Croy
2nd= Ibrahim Khan High School of Glasgow
Aditya Zaveri Lanark CC ( Ibrahim won tie-break and got 2nd place trophy, Aditya got 3rd place trophy)

UNDER 9:
1st= Rong Sheng Xia St Marys PS Hamilton 6/7
Sophie Heron Holy Cross PS Croy 6/7 ( Rong won tie-break and got 1st place trophy, Sophie got 2nd place trophy)
3rd Tony Chim Lenzie Chess Academy 5/7

Medals for 50% and above:
4/7 Cameron McOmish Hamilton College
Gia Kohli Glasgow Academy / Lenzie Chess Academy
Onomen Ibhanesebhor St Brides PS Bothwell
Ibrahim Khan High School of Glasgow
3.5/7 Alice Ocytko St Catherine’s PS Edinburgh
Ruaridh McDonald Muiredge PS Uddingston
Alina Tang Lenzie Chess Academy
Tommy Turner St Brides PS Bothwell

UNDER 10:
1st Oliver Whalley Stewart Melville Edinburgh 6/6
2nd Murdo McLaurin Fettes College Edinburgh 5/6
3rd= Ananth Subramaniam Robert Gordons Aberdeen 4/6
Carolina Espinosa Cancino Girvan PS 4/6
Rong Sheng Xia St Marys PS Hamilton 4/6 ( Ananth won tiebreak and got 3rd place trophy, Carolina and Rong got Medals)

Medals for 50% and above:
3.5/6 Emma Heron Holy Cross PS Croy
Orlaith Shepherd St Peters PS Edinburgh
3/6 Charlie Farquharason Glasgow Academy
Michael Moroz High School of Glasgow
James Coyle Glasgow Academy
Zayd Khan High School of Glasgow

UNDER 11:
1st= Murdo McLaurin Fettes College 6/7
Declan McClelland Lanark CC 6/7 ( Murdo won tiebreak and got 1st place trophy, Declan got 2nd place trophy)
3rd= Mark Heron Holy Cross PS Croy 5/7
Pranav Arcot Robert Gordons Aberdeen 5/7 ( Mark won tiebreak and got 3rd place trophy, Pranav got a medal)

Medals for 50% and above:
4/7 Florence Wilson Flora Stevenson PS Edinburgh
Abhi Reddy St Aloysius PS Chapelhall
Carolina Espinosa Cancino Girvan PS
3.5/7 Iris Benwell Stirling CC
Alex Brimlow Lenzie Chess Academy
Pranav Aluri Our Lady of the Missions PS Giffnock
Luke Joyce Holy Cross PS Croy

UNDER 12:
1st= Ritvik Maheshwari High School of Glasgow / Lenzie Chess Academy 5/6
Pranav Arcot Robert Gordons Aberdeen 5/6 ( Ritvik won tiebreak and got 1st place trophy, Pranav got the 2nd place trophy)
3rd Euan Wallace Holy Cross PS Croy 4/6

Medals for 50% and above:
3.5/6 Sorcha Shepherd St Peters PS Edinburgh
Finlay Gibb Aberdeen
Richard Zhang St Peters PS Edinburgh
3/6 Mark Heron Holy Cross PS Croy
Luca Barbieri Lenzie Chess Academy
Pavel Yanev Flora Stevenson PS Edinburgh

UNDER 14:
1st Liam Heron Holy Cross PS Croy 5/6
2nd= Anish Subramaniam Robert Gordons Aberdeen 3.5/6
Aiden Chim Lenzie Chess Academy 3.5/6
Sahib Kohli Glasgow Academy/Lenzie Chess Academy 3.5/6 ( on tie break Anish got the 2nd place trophy, Aiden got the 3rd place trophy, Sahib got a medal)

Michael.

I've never been too sure about this, but it has happened to me, so:

Increment - hence, in theory the game can go on forever.
Drawn position, but not trivially - e.g. there might be a fortress, but that might not be evident to everyone. In the particular case I remember I had a Rook+Bishop fortress against a queen and King but there were also pawns on the board. It was "clearly" drawn, but the point is...

the game can just go on and on and on. Three move repetition need never arise ; the 50 move rule (does that even still exist) need never arise (or at least not for many hours) as the odd pawn move can always be made, and any 2 minute rules can be kept at bay by the increment. So...what exactly is the protocol?

In my case, I did call the arbiter (it was 22:30pm and I wanted to get some sleep), but even then it took another 30mins and probably only ended because the other player did eventually concede the draw- probably only due to my demonstrable frustration and having to pseudo repeat moves.

In short...is there an issue here or am I (and I suspect a few others) just ignorant of the correct protocol?

European Individual Chess Championship
Minsk, Belarus 29th May - 11th June 2017

Although this is open to as many participants from any nation as want to play, all entries must go through the national federations, so...

If anyone would like to play in this please contact me. I am hoping to secure funding for entry and ECU fees for one player, the highest-rated SCO participant.

Entry deadline for the event is May 1st, deadline for any CS financial assistance (as outlined above) is April 1st

A pdf ith tournament info, entry rules and conditions can be found at the link below...

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Kind regards,
Andy Burnett

(CS International Director)

Under 300:
1st Tom Salmon Glasgow Academy 5.5/6
2nd Joshua Betts Perth 5/6
3rd= Brodie McCann Holy Cross Croy 4.5/6
Kai McIlroy Lanark CC
Uma Ganesan Aberdeen
( Brodie won tiebreak to get the trophy, Kai & Uma got medals )

Medals for 50% and above:
4/6 Sai Dugyala Dalry PS Edinburgh, Callum Robertson Woodhill PS Bishopbriggs, Ishan Rohatgi High School of Glasgow

3.5/6 Aditya Zaveri Lanark CC, Frances McGunnigle Glasgow Academy, Ruaridh McDonald Muiredge, Luke Gormley Giffnock CC, Shwetika Balaji Glasgow Academy

3/6 Jamie Gibbons Glasgow Academy, Afrin Ahmed Glasgow Academy, Pragna Aluri Our Lady of the Missions PS Giffnock, Amy Rousseau Bishopton

Under 600:
1st Ethan Palmer Hamilton CC 5.5/6
2nd= Rajandeep Singh St Aloysius PS Chapelhall 5/6
Alina Tang Lenzie Chess Academy
( Rajandeep won tiebreak for 2nd place trophy, Alina got 3rd place trophy )

Medals for 50% and Above:
4.5/6 Sean McCann Holy Cross PS Croy

4/6 Pranav Aluri Our Lady of the Missions PS Giffnock, Rong Sheng Xia St Marys PS Hamilton, Idris Benwell Cumbernauld CC, Karthikeya Vundi Stewart Melville’s Edinburgh

3.5/6 Louis Brownisky Lenzie Chess Academy, Alex Sevic High School of Glasgow, Gia Kohli Glasgow Academy

3/6 Alex Brimlow Lenzie Chess Academy, Ananth Subramaniam Robert Gordon’s Aberdeen, James Coyle Glasgow Academy, Miya Callaghan St Brides Bothwell,
Jake Liu Glasgow Academy

Over 600:
1st Sahib Kohli Glasgow Academy / Lenzie Chess Academy 6.5/7
2nd Pranav Saravanan Albyn School Aberdeen 5.5/7
3rd= Pranav Arcot Robert Gordon’s Aberdeen 5/7
Murdo McLaurin Fettes College
( Pranav won the tiebreak and got the 3rd place trophy, Murdo got a medal )

Medals for 50% and above:
4/7 Pavel Yanev Flora Stevenson PS Edinburgh

3.5/7 Anish Subramaniam Robert Gordon’s Aberdeen

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Leading scores for £50 first prize
1st Sahib Kohli 20 points
2nd Pranav Saravanan 16 points
3rd= Pranav Aluri / Murdo McLaurin 15.5 points

Total of 109 children have now played in Hamilton Junior congress this season

Michael.