Spens Cup 2016-17

Prelimary Round
Phones vs Hamilton
Quarter Final
Qtr 1 Castlehill vs Wandering Dragons
Qtr 2 Bellshill vs Troon
Qtr 3 Phones or Hamilton vs Irvine
Qtr 4 Kilmarnock vs Edinburgh Civil Service

Please submit your player registration forms out to me ASAP. First team listed is home. Prelimary round to be played by end of play Sunday 20nd November 2016. Quarter Finals to be completed by end of play Sunday 22nd January

Quarter Final Draw

Qtr 1 Glasgow Poly vs Wandering Dragons
Qtr 2 Edinburgh vs Bon Accord
Qtr 3 Cathcart vs Hamilton
Qtr 4 Dundee vs Edinburgh West

Team Captains , fill out your player registration forms and get them out to me. First team listed is home. Quarter Finals to be completed by end of play Sunday 22nd January


Ian Brownlee

Hi Folks, everything lookin good for our new premises.
Main playing area supported by sepparate rooms for analysis and food.
The following will be offered at £2.50 per portion -- Morning (until 11.30am) Bacon, Sausage or egg rolls.
Lunch (12 - 3pm) Soup, Stovies, Macaroni Cheese, Sandwiches.
There is a coffee/tea machine which needs £1 coins and cans of juice on sale from reception. However, they have said that you may bring flasks of coffee/tea with you. You can also bring snacks -- crisps, sweets etc. In negotiations about whether you can bring sandwiches/ packed lunch.
Once we've had the day we and the venue will have a better idea of how to improve things for you.
Water will be availabe in the playing area.

Next door is a Holiday Inn Express, It has offered the following rates
Saturday 29th October 2016 - £80.00 per room – limited availability.
Sunday 30th October 2016 - £49.00 per room

Saturday 26th November 2016 - £65.00 per room
Sunday 27th November 2016 - £49.00 per room

Saturday 25th February 2017 - £65.00 per room
Sunday 26th February 2017- £49.00 per room

Saturday 25th March 2017 - £65.00 per room
Sunday 26th March 2017- £49.00 per room

Rooms are subject to availability – so please advise guest to book as soon as possible, especially for the October dates.

To make a booking at these rates please ask the guest to call the hotel – 01383 748 220, option 3 – and ask to speak with Ewa.

Draws made at Dundee & Angus Congress:

Richardson Cup 2016-17

Qtr 1 Glasgow Poly vs Wandering Dragons

Qtr 2 Edinburgh vs Bon Accord

Qtr 3 Cathcart vs Hamilton

Qtr 4 Dundee vs Edinburgh West


Spens Cup 2016-17

Qtr 1 Castlehill vs Wandering Dragons

Qtr 2 Bellshill vs Troon

Qtr 3 Hamilton vs Irvine

Qtr 4 Kilmarnock vs Edinburgh Civil Service


Draws made by Rich Wiltshire, Crewe

Round one results are available at chess-results.com:

Open - http://chess-results.com/tnr242102.aspx?lan=1
Major - http://chess-results.com/tnr242101.aspx?lan=1
Minor - http://chess-results.com/tnr242103.aspx?lan=1

Round 2 draws:
Open - http://www.dundee-congress.co.uk/documen...Rd%202.PDF
Major - http://www.dundee-congress.co.uk/documen...Rd%202.PDF
Minor- http://www.dundee-congress.co.uk/documen...Rd%202.PDF

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The FIDE rating held in the CS program and displayed in the online grading system has not been updated to October yet. FIDE changed the number of characters permitted in a name and the new longer names have disrupted the import method and meant we are unable to refresh the data. Programmer Gordon Rattray is hopeful a fix will be possible soon.

UNDER 300

1st Zayd Khan High School of Glasgow 5.5/6
2nd Pranav Aluri Our Lady of the Missions PS Giffnock 4.5/6
3rd= Ibrahim Khan High School of Glasgow 3/6 ( won 3rd place trophy on tiebreak )
Annabel Liang Fettes College Edinburgh
Caitlin Dines St Peters PS Edinburgh
Pragna Aluri Our Lady of the Missions PS Giffnock

All of above qualify for CFK Final at Fir Park Motherwell in June

UNDER 600

1st Aiden Clarke St Peters PS Edinburgh 5.5/7
2nd= Richard Zhang St Peters Edinburgh 4/7 ( 2nd place trophy on tiebreak)
Ted Drewett Low Port PS Linlithgow ( 3rd place trophy on tiebreak)

Medals for 50% and above:
3.5/7 Jennifer Feng Sciennes PS Edinburgh, Pavel Yanev Flora Stevenson PS Edinburgh

All of above qualify for CFK Final at Fir Park Motherwell in June

UNDER 1000

1st Joe Dobson George Heriots Edinburgh 4/5
2nd= Andrew Ison Dumfries CC 3/5 ( 2nd place trophy after playoff)
Murdo McLaurin Fettes College Edinburgh ( 3rd place trophy after playoff )

Medals for 50% and above:
2.5/5 Alasdair Sandham Low Port PS Linlithgow

All of above qualify for CFK Final at Fir Park Motherwell in June

ALLEGRO

1st Ricky Payne Edinburgh 6/6

Michael.

We have a fair few players taking part in this and today sees 2 mega-clashes in round 1!

Board 3: Nakamura- Keti Arakhamia-Grant
Board 4: Alan Tate - Michael Adams

Other pairings include
GM Aravindh - Jonathan Grant
Neil Thomson - IM Alavarado Diaz
GM Gaponenko - Richard Birkett

Our IM Steve Mannion is yet to be paired.

All the very best to our players in this ridiculously strong event!
http://iominternationalchess.com/

The live games can be viewed here apparently https://www.chess.com/tv

From our cousins across the sea:

Greetings from the Irish Chess Union,

We do hope you'll share our events with your members and visit us yourselves in future if you ever get the chance as we're always happy to meet with our counterparts from fellow federations and share ideas and plans.

With Kindest Regards,
John McMorrow


The Limerick Open takes place from the 29-31 October, 2016 in the luxurious Savoy Hotel, Limerick, Ireland. Past winners include GM Nick Pert, GM Petr Neumann, GM Alex Baburin, and GM Gergely Szabo. In its 11th year, the Limerick Open organisers will look to add to that impressive list of winners next month.

http://www.icu.ie/events/834


The 40th annual Kilkenny Congress will take place in Butler House, Kilkenny over the weekend of the 25-27 November. The event regularly attracts over 300 players including many top GMs such as past winners GM Michael Adams, GM John Nunn, GM Ivan Cheparinov. GM Luke McShane, GM Stuart Conquest, and most recently GM Bogdan Lalic, GM Sebastien Maze, GM Mark Hebden and GM Gawain Jones. As one of the biggest weekenders in Europe with a prize fund over 5,000 euro, the Kilkenny Congress will look to mark its 40th anniversary in style!

http://www.icu.ie/events/830


The 15th annual Gonzaga Classic will take place from 27-29 January and as usual, all the proceeds will go to charity. The event takes place right in the heart of Dublin city with its vibrant night life and tourist friendly attractions. The event has had many strong winners including IM Sam Collins who are part of the club itself and will look to surpass 200 entrants and raise over 3,000 euro for worthy causes.

http://www.icu.ie/events/841


Finally, the Bunratty Congress will take place from February 17-19 in the Bunratty Castle Hotel, Limerick. The largest event on the Irish calendar with over 350 entrants annually and a roll of honour that includes some of the top players in the world. 2016 GM Nigel Short, 2015 GM Wesley So, 2014 (and '11) GM Gawain Jones, 2012-13 GM Michael Adams, 2010 Alex Baburin and 2008-09 Peter Svidler.

http://www.icu.ie/events/801

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/...imination/