Lothians Allegro Saturday 10 January

[Graham Kerr]

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Me handling entries for this, if anyone wants to enter, just let me know by PM, text, email, WHY...

[Graham Kerr]

Thanks for all your correspondence.


Updated list of entrants,

Open
Paul Roberts 2186
Calum MacQueen 2129
Alan Grant 2110
George Neave 2066
Alex Gillies 2002
Willie Rutherford 1969
Dougie Will 1952
James Moreby 1860 (ECF 168)
Alan Jelfs 1836
Lennart Koehn 1835 J15

Challengers
Jacob Eek 1845
Ian Mason 1818
Phil Thomas 1790
Crawford Macnab 1789
Burg de Man 1762
Michael Ash 1710 [c]
Andrew MacQueen 1693
Rudi Austin 1668
James Watson 1668
Bill Cook 1666
Callum Watt 1665
Michael J Roth 1647
Chris Donkin 1643
Ian Whittaker 1624 [c]
Neil Irving 1603
Sandy Storey 1574
Simon Bate 1526 [c]
Craig Gillies 986 J14

Major
Dave Hewitt 1532
Robin Hayles 1522
Jason Maxwell 1508 J18
Bill Platts 1508
Stephen Donkin 1502
Ioannis Dabos-Doukas 1500 J13 [c]
Francis Roberts 1499
Charles Nisbet 1494
Bill Gray 1488
Graeme Russell 1476
William Deas 1447 [c]
Walter Pearson 1442
Stuart McKinney 1436
Ricky Dowling 1421
Rakhel Kumar Parida 1419
Alex McMillan 1392 [c]
Peter J. Doris 1369
Ben Volland 1348 J11
Calum McGillivray 1363
James Turner 1350
Jan van Katwijk 1349
Bob Kat 1335
Bernard Cassidy 1325
Bruce Chalmers 1306
Camas Millar 1294 J17
Hutch Williams 1155
Siddharth Berera 1087 J12
Caitlin Reid 1011 J15
Rachel Lorna Smith 916 J12
Duncan Depasquale 788 J14
Wojciech Czerwinski Un
Paul Patras Un

Minor
David King 1279
Brian Bonnyman 1269 [c]
Ruairidh McKay 1207
Joseph Middleton 1182 [c]
Mark J Smith 1127 [c]
Peter Statham 1087
Andrew Millar 1031
Peter Middleton 1030
Anne Donkin 1011
James Crerar 959
Andrew Gillies 901 J14
Lukah Connolly Sams 896 J12
Darren Gillies 781 J14
Brodie Aitken 632 J11
Dietah Connolly Sams 578 J9
Sarah Elizabeth Smith 535 J13
Jonathan McKay 491 J11

[George Neave]

Thanks to all who put on this event yesterday. A very competitive days chess and just the thing to get your brain back into gear after the holidays. Also nice to see there were so many live games. I wonder what kind of audience this got - anyone know?

On a related point, I have a question, talking with one of the participating juniors I heard how he had stopped clock and had a time increment added during his final minute. I confess I had no idea you can do this and would be grateful if an arbiter could clarify how this works. Thanks

[Graham Kerr]

Thanks to all who put on this event yesterday. A very competitive days chess and just the thing to get your brain back into gear after the holidays. Also nice to see there were so many live games. I wonder what kind of audience this got - anyone know?

On a related point, I have a question, talking with one of the participating juniors I heard how he had stopped clock and had a time increment added during his final minute. I confess I had no idea you can do this and would be grateful if an arbiter could clarify how this works. Thanks

There shouldn't have been any time increments in the tournament and i can't say i noticed any on the clocks as i was watching, but then i was more concerned with taking pics than i was paying attention to the games. I think i know who it is you refer to George, i was talking with his father in a group, increments were mentioned at the same time as someone else spoke, so i didn't get the gist of what it was he was saying...

Did he tell you it was in just one game or was it throughout the event?

[George Neave]

Did he tell you it was in just one game or was it throughout the event?

One game as far as I know.

[hamish olson]

It's a new (2014) addition to the two minute rule - if someone feels they can draw a position but has too little time they are entitled to ask for a 5 second increment if they are under two minutes. The arbiter is allowed to refuse. It's designed for positions that aren't quite clear enough to get a draw claim in I think.

[Andy McCulloch]

I think you will find that, when allowed, it replaces 10.2 draw claims. It is designed to give the player with a material advantage the time to play for a win.

[hamish olson]

It doesn't replace the draw claims, it supplements them, and requesting the 5 second increment is tantamount to offering a draw so if your opponent is material up and asks for the 5 second increment then you would be advised to take the draw (assuming you didn't have sufficient compensation). I would like more information on what the different criteria are between the draw claim and the five second rule - when would you get the 5 second increment but not the draw etc.?

[Graham Kerr]

I didn't know of this rule change...
I can see that it would cause problems for arbiters, messing around with clocks to add the increment i don't think would be straightforward. I wonder if the latest clocks would come with some sort of preset function to simply switch to incremental times...

[Graham Kerr]

Photos from the event...
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