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Advance Notice!
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We are delighted to give advance notice of some events being organised in the run up to Edinburgh Chess Club’s bicentenary in November: Schaakstad Apeldoorn Weekend 15th-17th July 2022: One of the Netherland’s top team, Schaakstad Apeldoorn (www.schaakstad-apeldoorn.nl), is visiting Edinburgh for a chess weekend. We are planning to hold a Rapid Event on the Friday evening…
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New article on Edinburgh Juniors in the 1960s and 70s
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I’ve been making some changes to the technical capabilities of the menu system of the club’s main website to allow us to include more history, biographies, and articles. The first visible change is the addition of an Articles section under the History menu which has as its first entry an article I’ve been working…
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Club President Player of the Year 2020
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We are delighted to congratulate our President, FM Neil Berry, on being awarded Chess Scotland’s joint Player of the Year 2020 (along with Andy Howie).
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West Coast Wins
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On Saturday evening the club played a return match against the Mechanics Institute of San Francisco played over 10 boards on chess.com (2 games on each board: 15 minutes for the game with 2 second move increments) . The game was broadcast (and recorded) on Twitch with commentary by a great line up made of GM Nick de Firmian,…
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Onward and upward for Allan!
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Club member Allan Buchan has progressed beyond the award of his recent CCE title and now achieved his first Correspondence Chess Master (CCM) norm whilst participating in the British Correspondence Chess Candidates A section. Allan reached the qualifying standard of 7 points by drawing his last game in the event. Congratulations to Allan! [SCCA News, 25/3/21]
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Great news for Scottish Junior chess!
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It was reported in yesterdays Times that Edinburgh Chess Academy, created by club member Andrew Green to provide a modern and exciting way of teaching chess to children, that their Scottish Junior Tournament has been endowed with £10,000 by Gareth Williams, founder of Skyscanner! As stated on the academy’s web site the tournament was started…
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European Club Cup 2013
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For the second time in three years, we sent a team to play in the European Club Cup. This years’ event was held in the splendid Rodos Palace Hotel in Rhodes, from October 19-27. We qualified as Richardson winners, and were joined by runners up Edinburgh West. We had an average rating of 2136,…
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Andorra!
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A few years ago I used to make an annual summer trip to a tournament on mainland Europe. Destinations included the Czech Republic, Denmark, Romania and Latvia. These events provided an opportunity to visit somewhere new and play against different players). With cheap flights making more and more of Europe easily accessible, it was…
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Club Talk – Using Computers
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I gave a talk at the club on 28th April on using computers to improve your game. Here are the key points: Chessbase Analysis Engines I showed some interesting examples. Here is one, from Think Like a Grandmaster. This book has generally stood the test of time quite well, and it is only in the computer…
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Club Successes
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Following on from John’s reporting of the SNCL triumph, Edinburgh Chess Club also won the Edinburgh Premier Division, and Scotland’s premier team competition, the Richardson Cup. This was our first victory since 1987, and 24th overall! The results from the final against Edinburgh West were as follows: Edinburgh 5.5 – 2.5 Edinburgh West Calum…