Edinburgh Chess Club

Alastair White will be giving another coaching talk at the Club on Thursday 26th January, 7.30pm.

The talk, titled “Happy Endings”, will look at some instructive endings and include discussion and examples of common themes.

All welcome.

A belated post re the third and fourth rounds of SNCL played at the end of November. In division 2 the first team beat Dumfries before going down to a strong university side who look favourites for that division this year. The first team now lies third in the division. In division 3 the second team made a somewhat scratchy draw with Hamilton B and then beat Inverclyde, to remain in second place. So both teams still have good chances of promotion with good performances next time, which is Sunday 26 February

Match played at Alva Street, 7th December:

Tiger Cubs            4  -  2        Bank of Scotland 2

Bill Platts               1  -  0         Alistair Forbes

Wenbo Chen        1  -  0         Peter McMillan

Captiva Mills         ½ – ½       James Turner

Leora Wadler        0  -  1        Louis Ferrie

Adam Wadler       ½ -  ½        Derek Ronaldson

Stuthi Hegde         1  -  0        Default

Match played 30th November at Alva Street:

Tiger Cubs                  2 ½  -  3½      Pentland Hills 3

Dennis Anderson           ½ - ½         Jim Wallace

Fergus Skillen                 ½ – ½        Billy Samuel

Michael Welch                 ½ – ½        Maciej Kaprowski

Stuthi Hegde                     1 – 0         John Allen

Rachel Skillen                   0 – 1        Jim Orr

Benjamin Ridge                0 – 1        Chris Hampton

Both teams started the SNCL season in good style with 2 wins each and lead their respective divisions. Full results are posted on the SNCL website.

Match played 27th October at Alva Street:

Edinburgh 4                4  -  2           Tiger Cubs

Rod Cranston             0  -  1           Dennis Anderson

Tony Briddon              1  -  0            Bill Platts

Robert Horne              1  -  0           Fergus Skillen

Calum McGillivray       1  -  0          Captiva Mills

Euan Sime                   1  -  0           Rishi Pandya

Michael Welch             0  -  1           Corbin Beaumont

Match played 26th October at Alva Street:

Edinburgh 3                 2½  -  3 ½     Edinburgh 2

Lindsay McGregor          0  -  1         Daniel McGowan

Graham Dempsey          0  -  1         Hugh Brechin

Chris McIntee                  ½  -  ½        Mike Ridge

Mark Sanderson              ½ – ½        David Archibald

Ian Sweeney                    ½  -  ½        Keith Aitchison

Ben He                               1  -  0         Yanni Yannoulis

We are currently looking for someone to represent the Club in this competition.

This is an individual knock-out tournament open to all Chess Scotland clubs.  Matches are played at evenings or weekends at the home player’s club or home, or a neutral venue.  There can be signficant travel involved.

The MacIsaac is for club champions, or failing that, a club member graded at least 1850.  This season the club champion has declined to participate so we are  extending the invitation to  the wider membership.  If you would like to represent the club in  this competition please let me know by 26th October.

Mark Sanderson

Matches played 13th October:

Round 1

Edinburgh A     1½ – 2½     Edinburgh B

Round 2

Edinburgh B        3 – 1        Pentland Hills

Edinburgh A        Bye