Ayr Congress 2014 23rd to 25th May 2014

[David G Congalton]

Well we're off. Round 1 completed.

Tomorrow should be action packed at Ayr.

Fingers crossed for up to 14 live boards, the whole of the Open section.

Big screen monitors throughout the venue displaying the top games.

A coaching and commentary room hosted by Andrew Green and Ali Roy, with hopefully some of the players dropping in to add to the fun.

The junior Saturday event for up and coming youngsters.

[Robert Lothian]

Just had a look at this morning's games. There seem to have been a lot of blunders by good players. I'm guessing that Neil Berry's position went South in time trouble, but there were a few one-move blunders on other boards. Was there a particularly enthusiastic Saturday night down there?

Easy to spot blunders from the safety of my armchair of course.

[David G Congalton]

Prize Winners

OPEN

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1st = (all 4/5)

GM Matthew Turner - Glasftonbury

Clement Sreeves - Rhu & Edinburgh

IM Stephen Mannion - Paisley

Stuart A White - Bearsden


Grading Prize (all 3/5)

James Doyle - Stepps

Neil Thomson - Giffnock

Murad Abdulla - Bon Accord

Stephen Robinson - Ardrossan


West of Scotland Champions

Clement Sreeves - Rhu & Edinburgh

IM Stephen Mannion - Paisley

Stuart A White - Bearsden


MAJOR

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1st = (4.5/5)

Jamie Mollison - Bank of Scotland


2nd= (all 4/5)

Lewis Brookens - Polytechnic

Steve H Hilton - Inverclyde

Keith Aitchison - Edinburgh

James P R Kleboe - Kilmarnock


Grading Prize 1 (all 3/5)

Neil Irving - Stirling

Alice Lampard - Troon

Iain S Campbell - Giffnock

Arthur McCurley Prestwick


Grading Prize 2 (all 2.5/5)

Alexander Bond - Lanark

Alec M Waddell - Cathcart

Nicholas Straw - North Juniors


West of Scotland Champions

Lewis Brookens - Polytechnic

Steve H Hilton - Inverclyde

James P R Kleboe - Kilmarnock



MINOR

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1st (4.5/5)

Jack Stewart - Greenwood

2nd= (4/5)

Mark Smith - Edinburgh

Frank Park - Troon

Jake Sanger - Prestwick

William Hardwick - Austin Friars

Geoffrey White - Oban

Under 1000 Grading Prize (3.5/5)

Euan Dawson - Castlehill

Under 750 Grading Prize (3.5/5)

Darren Maley- Dunbar

West of Scotland Champion

Jack Stewart - Greenwood

[Patrick McGovern]

Congratulations to the Greenwood players who did so well over the weekend; Neil Thomson, Jack Stewart and Matthew Turner

[Alex Gillies]

Sounds like a good event good to see new events do well

Couldn't load all the games - if you get chance can you post pgn file thanks

[Andy Howie]

New event? It has been going for 4 or 5 years now!

[Jonathan Livingstone]

Yes and a 'must go to that one' congress for many of us. Thanks to David and his team, another excellent congress this year. Good to see so many juniors. I applaud all those who were involved on the TV screens, live boards, internal commentary etc. The large screens in the playing area were well done, good to see chess getting interactively jazzed up like this, just what our game needs. Doesn't seem like it will be long now before there is progression to text commentary with the live boards.

[Andy Howie]

We could do it now but it is hard enough to do the live boards and arbit without setting up and monitoring twitter! Maybe one for the future if we can get people interested.

Once my arm has finally healed, I will be at more congresses. It was down to David that we were able to do this one as he set it up for me. All I had to do was the computer side

[Brendan O'Gorman]

Some photos http://tinyurl.com/Ayr2014