Hamilton Summer Congress

[ruairidhmckay]

Hi all,

Hope the beginning of August is treating you well. 

Lanarkshire has form with regard to offering a competition in August for those who are missing a bit of weekly chess whilst waiting for their respective own club nights and leagues to start again. A fair few have entered but there is plenty of space for some last minute entries before Round 1 starts on Monday. 

Feel free to have a look at the details on the Chess Scotland calendar. I have added a link to the chess-results page so you can see who has entered. I will do the draw on the Sunday evening at 9pm for each round (edit note: changed from 10pm) so there is plenty of notice for you if you are given a bye. Currently with a few people requesting a Round 1 bye anyway, we are expecting even numbers for Round 1 but this could of course change with late entries.

Lastly, please note that that Round 5 will now be on the 9th of September, not the 2nd.

[ruairidhmckay]

Round 2 draw is up. Due to a withdrawal, we have even numbers so everybody has a game. See you all tomorrow evening

[ruairidhmckay]

Round 3 draw due to be made tomorrow.

Ian Ferguson, if you happen to read the forum, could you get in touch with Thor (or post here) and indicate whether you are coming on Monday or not.

[ruairidhmckay]

That's the Round 5 draw up. Apologies for the lateness of it - there were one or two technical reasons for that.

Before the start of the round, there will be a couple presentations of Grand Prix prizewinners who are not able to make it to Ayr next weekend when the most the presentations will happen.

Thor tells me there may be a prize ceremony at the end but it will depend on how late the games finish!