Christmas night

There will be two tough but important endgames. 15 minutes each on the clock. We will match people with similar grading on the night. The pieces will be placed on their starting positions.

Queen versus Rook endgame to win the rook (far from easy).

Bishop & Knight versus King to checkmate.

Presentation and discussion: the most important items collected by the club over the last 202 years (club historian David Archibald)

Unrated friendly Allegro (rapid play) competition.

Five games with 15 minutes with 2s increments (not cumulative) on the clock each. This will be practice for the forthcoming official Johnny Marr Allegro club championship.

Competing for the Johnny Marr trophy. Time control will be 15 minutes with 2 seconds increments (not cumulative) per person. The results will be sent to Scottish chess for grading (not FIDE rated).

Registration will be set up for this event.

There will be seven rounds (ungraded). 5 minutes for each player with 2 seconds increments (not cumulative). Registration will be set up for this event.