Scottish 2016

[Alan Tate]

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[Alan Tate]

هل انت خائف؟

[Clement Sreeves]

أنا أعمل

[Alan Tate]

أن تمتص

[Alex McFarlane]

Provisional draws now posted on both the website and Chess Results (Championship only there).

I'm posting in English rather than Arabic ;

[amuir]

I was interested to see who has played in the Scottish Championship the most times:
From the downloads and my spreadsheet , the leading players (all Glasgow based ) are :

McNab 26 times , Bryson 24, McKay 23, Buchanan 21, Muir 19, Mannion 16

[amuir]

I have looked on the wikipedia site <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Chess_Championship">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_ ... ampionship</a><!-- m -->,
made many corrections and added Jonathan Grant
Leading appearances are : McNab 29, McKay 26, Bryson 25, Buchanan 24, J Grant 22, Muir 21, Mannion 17

The following table gives appearances and positions in each year where known - feel free to correct errors

DB WB JG CM SM RM AM
1968 n n n n n 4 n
1969 n n n n n n n
1970 n n n n n 2 n
1971 n n n n n 1 n
1972 n n n n n n n
1973 n n n n n 6 n
1974 n n n n n 1 n
1975 n n n n n 6 n
1976 n n n n n 2 9
1977 n 15 n n n 3 n
1978 n 12 n n n n 10
1979 n n n 7 n 1 11
1980 10 n n n n 1 15
1981 0 0 n 0 0 0 0
1982 0 0 n 0 n 1 0
1983 0 0 n 1 0 0 0
1984 n 0 n n n n n
1985 0 0 n 0 0 1 0
1986 0 0 n 0 0 0 0
1987 0 0 n 0 0 0 0
1988 n 0 n 0 0 1 0
1989 0 n 0 0 0 0 0
1990 0 n 0 n 1 n 0
1991 0 n 0 1 0 n 0
1992 n 0 0 n n 0 n
1993 0 0 0 1 0 0 n
1994 0 0 0 0 n n 0
1995 n n 0 1 1 n n
1996 0 0 0 0 n n n
1997 1 13 n 2 n n n
1998 3 14 4 n 8 n n
1999 0 0 0 0 0 n n
2000 3 0 0 0 n n n
2001 5 10 n 8 8 n n
2002 0 n 0 0 n 0 n
2003 n n 7 8 n n n
2004 8 n 10 5 9 n n
2005 0 n 0 n n n 0
2006 n n 1 n n n 3
2007 0 n n 0 n n 1
2008 n n 0 n n n 0
2009 n 13 9 4 n n n
2010 n n n 0 n n n
2011 n n 4 n n n n
2012 5 21 n 7 n 8 n
2013 7 13 20 3 4 1 n
2014 n 9 3 2 n 12 65
2015 n n 12 2 n 4 n
2016 6 12 n 2 3 14 7

[Alan Tate]

Thanks to the organisers, arbiters, and everyone else for making it happen (including whoever washed all the cups etc!). Excellent prize fund considering the strength of the tournament - it's a good experience to play for high stakes. Finally, congratulations to Matthew, and to Keti for a strong display of fighting chess and deserved Scottish champion. The international open format is not perfect, but it has produced clearly worthy champions in the last 2 years.

[Ianbrownlee]

I visited the scottish for the first time and I must say I was impressed with the amount of work put in by the organisers, particularly Alex and Andy H. I only got to see a small part of the work Alex puts in and I honestly dont know how he does it. He certainly deserves our ongoing support for the future of these Championships

[StevieHilton]

The organizers do put in a tremendous amount of work. :ymapplause: