Winter Chess Festival

[Patrick McGovern]

thanks Andy

yeah Ned was so dissatisfied with modern technology he (allegedly) took a hammer to it, i felt the same yesterday, so am not losing the thread, just my patience

[Phil Thomas]

Apologies for any difficulties with following the event - its been very hard work keeping everything ticking over. Massive thanks to Andy Howie and David Archibald for all their good work so far.

I know that Andy Howie is doing a massive amount of work over the holiday period - probably 12 hour days 9 times out of 10 with today as the only rest today. There will of course be others in the background working for the good of the tournament

Why don't we all note our appreciation of the work they are doing rather than sit back and read the notice board without commenting.

[Alan Jelfs]

I was impressed with the venue and the set-up for the festival when I visited it on Monday for my MacIsaac game.
The arbiter has to double up as door-keeper because of the door entry buzzer.
I was there in the morning while the Plate was in progress and witnessed a stalemate, which doesn't happen very often.

[Andy Howie]

Slight delay today. Managed to switch the board off by mistake...

[Andy Howie]

I am having major problems with FTP today. Cannot get any access to Chess Scotland

Please use this link for round 8. I am uploading manually

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[Patrick McGovern]

seems alright now Andy

[Andy Howie]

Still have no ftp access. Without it I can't upload the games. Please continue to use the link above

[Andrew McHarg]

On holiday at the moment. Will investigate the FTP issue when I get home tomorrow.