Scottish Chess Championship 2009
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Scottish Chess Championship 2009
Starts tomorrow. 11th - 19th July.
Rowson, Aagaard, Hebden, Prasad, Markos, Arakhamia-Grant,
Motwani, McNab, Shaw, Summerscale, Panchanathan....
You can see live games from the official site.
(somebody has done an excellent job here - official site is superb)
http://www.scottishchesschampionship.com/
I'll hopefully be doing a daily report covering the real chess.
Have already done intro.
http://www.chessedinburgh.co.uk/chandle ... handID=340
Also: I have been sent a waist coat from the organisers of the
2009 World Visually Impaired Championship for covering their event.
http://www.chessedinburgh.co.uk/chandle ... handID=339
So I'm going to look just spiffing wearing this - simply spiffing.
Rowson, Aagaard, Hebden, Prasad, Markos, Arakhamia-Grant,
Motwani, McNab, Shaw, Summerscale, Panchanathan....
You can see live games from the official site.
(somebody has done an excellent job here - official site is superb)
http://www.scottishchesschampionship.com/
I'll hopefully be doing a daily report covering the real chess.
Have already done intro.
http://www.chessedinburgh.co.uk/chandle ... handID=340
Also: I have been sent a waist coat from the organisers of the
2009 World Visually Impaired Championship for covering their event.
http://www.chessedinburgh.co.uk/chandle ... handID=339
So I'm going to look just spiffing wearing this - simply spiffing.
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Re: Scottish Chess Championship 2009
Sadly Jacob Aagaard has had to pull out due to injury.
Joke up here is that Scottish 'Open' Championship looks more British than
British (English) Championship.
Heard rumblings (again) that other countries GM's don't get treated the
same as English GM's when it comes to the Britsh.
But that's all politics as far as I'm concerned - I stay away
from that stuff. It get all too serious - Chess is fun.
Joke up here is that Scottish 'Open' Championship looks more British than
British (English) Championship.
Heard rumblings (again) that other countries GM's don't get treated the
same as English GM's when it comes to the Britsh.
But that's all politics as far as I'm concerned - I stay away
from that stuff. It get all too serious - Chess is fun.
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Re: Scottish Chess Championship 2009
What happened?Geoff Chandler wrote:Sadly Jacob Aagaard has had to pull out due to injury.
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Re: Scottish Chess Championship 2009
I believe the ECF's position is that if it raises money as "start money for IMs/GMs", then that money goes to players who are ENG on the rating list. If the Scottish, Welsh or Irish federations wish to pay start money to their players, that's fine but it comes from their domestic budgets or sponsorship.Geoff Chandler wrote:Heard rumblings (again) that other countries GM's don't get treated the
same as English GM's when it comes to the Britsh.
Last year's British made a loss - which was borne exclusively by the ECF ( as far as I'm aware).
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Re: Scottish Chess Championship 2009
Unless my computer is playing up, the live games aren't working. Boards 1-7 are not there full stop - Boards 8-15 seem to have frozen after an hour or so.
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Re: Scottish Chess Championship 2009
TryJohn Moore wrote:Unless my computer is playing up, the live games aren't working. Boards 1-7 are not there full stop - Boards 8-15 seem to have frozen after an hour or so.
http://scottish.blueapricot.com/2009/r1/tfd.htm
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Re: Scottish Chess Championship 2009
Thanks Carl - 1-7 now working on my computer
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Re: Scottish Chess Championship 2009
Good, yes it's me now I am afraid...John Moore wrote:Thanks Carl - 1-7 now working on my computer
Dave is reporting boards 8-15 as dead (for now...) until more testing can be done overnight
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Re: Scottish Chess Championship 2009
The electronic boards were equally dysfunctional at the early rounds of the British Championship last year. Maybe they could test whether the boards work before the event starts, rather than in the first round of the tournament proper? Or am I missing something?
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Re: Scottish Chess Championship 2009
day one report done.
http://www.chessedinburgh.co.uk/chandle ... handID=341
Fantastic venue. Very posh.
Understand there was a problem with live boards 8-16. I don't know,
I was too busy chatting up and falling in love with Lydia the Belgium WGM.
She lost to Magnus Carlsen (I think it's Magnus - have a look)
First round shock was Kakfa beating Andrew Greet - well it would have been
a shock to Andrew, I think he hammered Kafka a few weeks ago.
Jacob did back in last week.
http://www.chessedinburgh.co.uk/chandle ... handID=341
Fantastic venue. Very posh.
Understand there was a problem with live boards 8-16. I don't know,
I was too busy chatting up and falling in love with Lydia the Belgium WGM.
She lost to Magnus Carlsen (I think it's Magnus - have a look)
First round shock was Kakfa beating Andrew Greet - well it would have been
a shock to Andrew, I think he hammered Kafka a few weeks ago.
Jacob did back in last week.
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Re: Scottish Chess Championship 2009
I don't think Mike Surtees has a grade of 0, as he states on his scoresheet.
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Re: Scottish Chess Championship 2009
You are missing something Alex as the DGT boards are both hard to setup and the software is basically poo....Alex Holowczak wrote:The electronic boards were equally dysfunctional at the early rounds of the British Championship last year. Maybe they could test whether the boards work before the event starts, rather than in the first round of the tournament proper? Or am I missing something?
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Re: Scottish Chess Championship 2009
Given the rather elementary (French defence take on d4 with the Q allowing Bishop somewhere check) cheapo that he fell into, a grade of zero seems somehow appropriate ( in an ironic sense)Alex Holowczak wrote:I don't think Mike Surtees has a grade of 0, as he states on his scoresheet.
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Re: Scottish Chess Championship 2009
[quote="Geoff Chandler"
First round shock was Kakfa beating Andrew Greet - well it would have been
a shock to Andrew, I think he hammered Kafka a few weeks ago.
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He seems to have recovered well from not playing since 1921.
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=84307 lists only three games...
First round shock was Kakfa beating Andrew Greet - well it would have been
a shock to Andrew, I think he hammered Kafka a few weeks ago.
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He seems to have recovered well from not playing since 1921.
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=84307 lists only three games...
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Re: Scottish Chess Championship 2009
He has aged quite well since 1921.
There is a recent pic of Graeme Kafka on here.
http://www.chessedinburgh.co.uk/chandle ... handID=334
There is a recent pic of Graeme Kafka on here.
http://www.chessedinburgh.co.uk/chandle ... handID=334