Goals for the new season!

[Andrew McHarg]

What are your goals... ?

Mine is to break the 1800 grading barrier. This is the first new season where my grade has gone down (albeit only by about 2elo). I think the reason is that I've not played as much. ;|

[David Deary]

Same for me really.

I'll try to break the 1800 barrier but if I play anything like I did last season at weekenders I'll be struggling to do it.

Ideally, I need to find a couple of hours each day to do some "study". I keep telling myself I will pick up the books but then I get distracted by my pc, my xbox 360 or work. Oooh the joys of being an occassional player.

[Andy Howie]

Mine is to get the IA title. 4 norms needed.

[robin moore]

1/ Get David Deary/ Pat/ McGovern/ David Gillespie senior to buy me a pint.
2/ Try and get some of the juniors I am coaching at Dunlop primary school in Ayrshire onto to the CFK or Hamilton junior events. It's brilliant fun and a great challenge. Why don't you get yourself on the coaching list and offer your services to the local primary school ? You will be starting from scratch but the personal satisfaction is incredible.

[Mike Mitchell]

In no particular order:

1. Break the 1600 rating barrier
2. Play in a couple of Challengers events
3. Work on middlegame planning (main cause of my losses in second half of last season)
4. Break 50% for any league teams I play in

[Hugh Brechin]

For me:

Breaking 2100 would be very nice, but given that I haven't done a lot of work on my game recently 2050 is probably a more realistic target. I've given myself a big advantage this year by not playing in the Scottish, an event in which I lost about 80 points last time around.
Continue my recent ability to get decent results (finally!) with Black.
Play some kind of part in keeping Edinburgh 2 in the local Premier Division, and ideally contribute to successful Richardson and SNCL campaigns.

[Graham Kerr]

I'm fairly sure you can break the 1800 barrier Andrew, given enough games. The opportunity of playing in division 1 this season will help your game too, whether or not that reflects in your next grade, it'll certainly show over a longer term.

I think my goal for this season will be to stay above 1500, i've been dogged by concentration problems for a couple of years now, got away with it for much of 2010-11, but not so much 11-12. My focus needs more focus...

[Patrick McGovern]

[quote]"Get David Deary/ Pat/ McGovern/ David Gillespie senior to buy me a pint."

to quote the famous Kilmarnock sage, "Pot, Kettle and Black".

Robin is clearly affected by Alzheimers However he will have a chance to redeem himself during the upcoming Marymass tourney in August!! :U

[StevieHilton]

1/ to conquer the short time controls of the leagues!!
2/ to get my Scottish rating to match my FIDE one!!

[Angus McDonald]

To ensure that either parliament UK or Scottish fund the participation of our next crop of 20 junior Internationalists at the next Glorney/Faber/Robinson and Stokes events.

Currently we spend money on the past and destruction. Time to demand that our country Britain/Scotland invest in it's talented youth.

Recent e-mail states that £1.35 million was paid to a private family for buying some papers to do with William Wallace to display in the Scottish Museum. How about investing in living breathing talent?

Angus Wallace McDonald