Edinburgh Chess Club

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

Congratulations to David Wilson on winning Section A of the Quads competition.  A final game draw with Chris McIntee being enough to finish ½ a point ahead of Mike Ridge.

Round 5

Chris McIntee   ½ – ½    David Wilson

Latest Standings

Round 4

Section A

David Wilson               1 – 0         Yanni Yannoulis

Section B

Calum McGillivray     ½ – ½        Robert Burns

Johnny Marr                 0 – 1         Alastair Girvan

Round 1

Section B

Alastair Girvan            ½ – ½       Robert Burns

Latest Standings

The club hosted the Summer Allegro on 8th May.  Twenty players competed with Bill Falconer emerging the winner with a score of 4½/5.

Results:

 Bill Falconer    (Dragons)            4½

Siegrun Macgilchrist (Ayr), Mark Sanderson (Edinburgh), John Smith (Grangemouth)     4

Lindsay McGregor (Edinburgh)       3½

The prize for the best score by a player aged over 90 was won by Johnny Marr.

Entries are now being taken for the 2011 FIDE Swiss on June 4-5 and 11-12.  Entries are limited to 24 players and will be on a first come first served basis.  The entry form is attached below:

Edinburgh CC FIDE Rated Swiss 2011

Further updates will be published in due course.

Neil

The club hosted the Spring Allegro on Sunday March 20th with a capacity entry of 24 players.  The proud winner of the Spring Allegro Trophy (two splendidly yellow flower pots magnificently crested with a packet of sunflower seeds) was Callum Watt with a score of 4½/5, which included a win over top seed Ed Perry.  Details:

1. Callum Watt (Balerno)             4½

2. Dick Heathwood (Pentland Hills)    4

3. Ed Perry (Sandy Bells), Mark Sanderson (Edinburgh), Paul Girdwood (Gorgie/Dalry)     3½

Many thanks to Bob Burns and David Archibald for another well run and enjoyable event (and further contribution to Club funds).

Next event likely to be early May.

Note that the closing date for the Club “Late Season” Tournament is Monday 28th February.

Further details:

Late Season 2010-11

The club will once again be running an 8 round FIDE rated swiss over 2 weekends in June.  We’re still finalising the dates – the calendar in June will be packed with tournaments – but likely to be the middle 2 weekends.  Further details to follow, but feel free to contact me at thebalernobull@hotmail.com if you are interested in playing.

The club ran a successful Swiss event on the weekends of June 12-13 and 19-20.  18 players participated, with 6 rated over 2000.  The club was well represented by Daniel McGowan, Hugh Brechin, Clement Sreeves, Mark Sanderson, Mike Ridge, Johnny Scott and Shivan Murdochy.

Final Standings:

1 Paul Roberts 6.5/8 2-4 Hugh Brechin, Chris Macdonald, Walter Burnett 5.5 5 Mike Ridge 5 6-7 Andrew McHarg, John McBride 4.5 8-9 Daniel McGowan, Stuart Hayes 4 10-15 Johnny Scott, Shivan Murdochy, Nigel Chapman, Clement Sreeves, Gavin Saxton, Eoin Campbell 3.5 16 Jamie Mollison 3 17 Mark Sanderson 3 18 Hutch Williams 0

Paul Roberts was a deserved winner of the event, although he was pushed very hard in a number of games and had to defend an inferior ending in the last round against Chris Macdonald to secure outright first.  Hugh Brechin was matching Paul for most of the event until a round 7 defeat to Chris, who along with Walter Burnett had a strong finish to the event.

Andrew McHarg edged out Hugh for the performance rating prize, with a score of +1.48 ahead of FIDE expected score.  Of the unrated players, Mike Ridge had a great recovery following a 0/2 start to register a 2025 performance.  Results should be included in time for the July 1 Chess Scotland grading list, and hopefully the next FIDE list too.

We hope to run a similar event next year following this success.

Neil