Richardson and Spens 2013-14

[George Neave]

Can anybody tell me how the draw was carried out?

I believe Andy did the draw with help from Craig Pritchett after they had finished their game in last round.

[JRedpath]

Hamilton 5.5 –2.5 Edinburgh West

(B) Mannion S 1-0 Arakhamia-Grant K
(W) Muir A 0.5 Pritchett C
(B) Redpath J 1-0 Grant J
(W) Coffey P 0.5 Farrell N
(B) Tweedie S 0.5 Neave G
(W) Jamieson P 0-1 Buchanan W
(B) Nolan G 1-0 Bell A
(W) Donohue T 1-0 McLean I

Polytechnic Edinburgh
b Colin McNab 2497 1 - 0 Clement Sreeves 2248
w John Shaw 2403 0.5 - 0.5 Neil Berry 2242
b Vitalij Samolins 2398 0.5 - 0.5 Calum MacQueen 2242
w Iain Swan 2145 0.5 - 0.5 Andrew Green 2170
b Larry Kirk 2090 0 - 1 David Oswald 2148
w Algirdas Tiuninas 2081 1 - 0 Hugh Brechin 2081
b Elaine Bamber 2064 1 - 0 Raj Bhopal 2028
w Joseff Thomas 2008 0 - 1 Graeme Kafka 2018
4.5 - 3.5

[JRedpath]

Message from Andy Muir:

I can confirm semi-final draw was done by myself & Craig Pritchett
I am staying off the noticeboard till March to give moderators a break

CONSOLATION
Oban 8-0 Dundee w/o

SPENS

Result for Irvine versus Kilmarnock B 3.5-2.5
(W)D Gillespie(17274) 1-0 J McNichol(5209)
(B)G King(4507).5-.5 J Armour (3073)
(W)R Copeland(16666) 1-0 C Strong (8401)
(B)R Loughran(4725).5-.5 A Muir (5401)
(W)R Gourlay(7499) 0-1 R Henderson (24787)
(B)R Locke(4710) .5-.5 R McCormick(4985)

ED CS 2.5 v Kilmarnock A 3.5
4810 A Prince (W) 1859 1-0 DEFAULT C Allor
3084 Crawford McNab 1805 0.5 5875 Joe Parks 1822
3084 Rudolph Austin 1720 0-1 7619 Kenny Malkin 1822
5921 Richard Scott 1571 0-1 4357 Steve Hilton 1822
4313 Douglas Heatlie 1563 0-1 4236 Douglas Hamilton
3143 Simon Bate 1552 1-0 4611 Jim Kleboe 1760


Tom Donohue W 1976 1 – 0 Chris James B 1811
James Montgomery B 1666 0 - 1 Richard Carter W 1736
Robert Mongomery W 1662 1 – 0 Jonathan Livingstone B 1656
James Drummond B 1216 ½ - ½ Frank Banaghan W 1600 (est)
Bernard Airlie W 1160 ½ - ½ Alan Bell B 1399
Bill Perrie B 1108 0 - 1 Alice Banaghan W 1170

HAMILTON 3 - 3 DUNBAR
* Hamilton won on board count.

Phones Troon
W Robert Dickson 1806 1- 0 John Calder 1880
B John McIntyre 1638 1/2 Robin Templeton 1837
W Paul MacDonald 1576 1- 0 Tommy Barrett 1832
B Robert O’Brien 1564 0 -1 Clive Baird 1734
W Colin Paterson 1466 0 -1 Duncan Malcolm 1618
B Ewan Trantor 1416 1/2 Alice Lampard 1582

Tie Break win Phones 3 - 3

[Keith Rose]

I've just become aware this topic has reawakened

I agree that information should be made available as soon as possible after an event/match.

There are dedicated web pages for the Richardson and Spens on the CS website – from the home page menu select 'Chess Scotland', then 'CS Events'; then links to the main CS events. For your convenience the direct link is http://www.chessscotland.com/membership/...Events.htm

These pages are maintained and updated by Dick Heathwood – but only if he is sent the data and that didn't happen recently. That is something for me to address. I will send the details posted here to Dick and I anticipate that he will update soon.

Joe – thank you for posting the details above. In the absence – or in addition to – other forms of dissemination perhaps teams might use this forum to declare results?

Jonathan -

suggest results for these types of competitions should be covered in newspapers and on BBC ceefax (yes that still exists!) or chessresults.com

– fair comment and a good idea. You seem to be a mine of good ideas (no, I'm not being facetious, I mean it). One thing this suggests to me is that CS could use a dedicated Press Officer for this and many other purposes.

if the results were done on an a uniformed online form, rather than an email when people get round to it, and published for all to see.

I'll look into how we might achieve this, though I tend to think that filling in an electronic form with all the detail of a Richardson match would be a bit tedious. An alternative would be to hand write a printed pro-forma result sheet (as we used to do), photograph or scan it and email to A.M., Dick and anyone else you want to inform.

You are right about the website – it is work in progress, at an early stage and ways of developing still being considered. Some of the ideas in this thread are already being thought about.

I can imagine the current Rich/Spens team are short on volunteers

– I would like to expand that thought but I'll do that in a new topic in a day or two.

Hamilton – Dunbar. Would someone from one or other of these teams be kind enough to post the details here please? Thanks.

FYI Bon Accord - Castlehill will be played next Saturday, 1st Feb

One other thing just now – the consolation event. I have emailed Richardson captains but am short of replies – is there enough interest to justify spending CS money on a trophy? I am getting some cool responses to it and there are alternatives to this concept. I would be grateful for views from anyone whose team might qualify, in future years if not this one.

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[Jonathan Livingstone]

Hi Keith, the Hamilton v Dunbar 3-3 result info is there on the above post.

Just a query out of general interest and for future reference in case the situation arises with our team regarding ED CS 2.5 v Kilmarnock A 3.5 also in the earlier results post above.

Kilmarnock were a player short (their board 1) and dropped a point by default. However Edinburgh Civil Service didn't play their own board 1 and won the default there. Is that a fixed rule and how it has to happen? Or was that the player they just so happened to choose at their own discretion not to play and take the default? I would have thought the norm was for Board 6 typicaly not to play and win by default but with discretion allowed as to which player/board drops out and takes the default point.

[Andy Howie]

If they were expecting the player to come then defaulting board 1 was the correct thing to do. If they knew that he wasn't then they should have defaulted Board 6

[Keith Rose]

Jonathan - thanks, I saw the result but I meant the details of the players and individual scores. For grading as much as info.

[JRedpath]

The board results are above the actual result, I just copied and pasted from e-mail. Would edit but the button does not seem to be there!

[Andy Howie]

Keith

From above

Tom Donohue W 1976 1 – 0 Chris James B 1811
James Montgomery B 1666 0 - 1 Richard Carter W 1736
Robert Mongomery W 1662 1 – 0 Jonathan Livingstone B 1656
James Drummond B 1216 ½ - ½ Frank Banaghan W 1600 (est)
Bernard Airlie W 1160 ½ - ½ Alan Bell B 1399
Bill Perrie B 1108 0 - 1 Alice Banaghan W 1170

HAMILTON 3 - 3 DUNBAR
* Hamilton won on board count.

[Crawford Macnab]

If they were expecting the player to come then defaulting board 1 was the correct thing to do. If they knew that he wasn't then they should have defaulted Board 6

Kilmarnock expected their board one to arrive. He did not so after an hour he lost by default.