29-11-2022 Dunfermline A v Stirling A

Dunfermline A		v		Stirling A
Ian Robertson Fred Ossowski Gordon Greig Calum Smith Des Allan	2079 1561 1560 1626	0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 1 1 - 0 0 - 1	1934 1722 1621 1562 1523	Isaac Browning William Spiers Steve Smith Dave Hewitt Brad Duthie
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28-11-2022 Stirling E v Grangemouth C

Stirling E		v		Grangemouth C
Gordon Allcock Callum Richardson Mick Bloor Harley Lang Euan Tortolano	1260 1097 1079 1082	½ - ½ ½ - ½ 0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 1	1252 1181 1022	Crawford Welsh David Fowler Scott Dickson Roman Kuznetsov Nicholas Kitaev
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28-11-2022 Stirling Castle v Stirling Douglas

Stirling Castle 8-8 Stirling Douglas
Round 1
Kris Dimitrov	0 - 1	Brad Duthie
Comnhall Ferguson	0 - 1	Sandy Carmichael
Stewart Cairns	1 - 0	Robbie McDermott
Thomas Forsyth	1 - 0	Cameron Deer
Round 2
Kris Dimitrov	1 - 0	Cameron Deer
Comnhall Ferguson	0 - 1	Brad Duthie
Stewart Cairns	0 - 1	Sandy Carmichael
Thomas Forsyth	0 - 1	Robbie McDermott
Round 3
Kris Dimitrov	1 - 0	Robbie McDermott
Comnhall Ferguson	1 - 0	Cameron Deer
Stewart Cairns	0 - 1	Brad Duthie
Thomas Forsyth	0 - 1	Sandy Carmichael
Round 4
Kris Dimitrov	1 - 0	Sandy Carmichael
Comnhall Ferguson	1 - 0	Robbie McDermott
Stewart Cairns	1 - 0	Cameron Deer
Thomas Forsyth	0 - 1	Brad Duthie

23-11-2022 Grangemouth Tigers v Stirling Wallace

Grangemouth Tigers 11½-4½ Stirling Wallace
Round 1
John McLay	1 - 0	William Spiers
Alan Bell	1 - 0	Nathanael Loch
Crawford Welsh	1 - 0	Tom Wallace
Harry Leishman	1d - 0d
Round 2
John McLay	1d - 0d
Alan Bell	1 - 0	William Spiers
Crawford Welsh	0 - 1	Nathanael Loch
Harry Leishman	½ - ½	Tom Wallace
Round 3
John McLay	1 - 0	Tom Wallace
Alan Bell	1d - 0d
Crawford Welsh	0 - 1	William Spiers
Harry Leishman	0 - 1	Nathanael Loch
Round 4
John McLay	1 - 0	Nathanael Loch
Alan Bell	1 - 0	Tom Wallace
Crawford Welsh	1d - 0d
Harry Leishman	0 - 1	William Spiers

21-11-2022 Robert Togneri Trophy

Time control: 15 minutes each for all moves

	Name	Grade	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Place
1	Isaac Browning	1853	1 W 12	1½ B 6	2½ W 8	3½ W 4	4 B 2	=1
2	William Spiers	1692	1 B 13	2 W 7	2 B 4	3 B 5	3½ W 1	=3
3	Graham Anderson	1655	½ W 14	1½ B 11	2 W 9	2 B 10	3 B 12	=6
4	Matthew Demmon	1660	1 B 15	2 W 10	3 W 2	3 B 1	4 W 6	=1
5	Steve Smith	1636	1 W 16	1½ B 9	2½ W 6	2½ B 2	3 W 14	=6
6	Harley Lang	1585	1 B 17	1½ W 1	1½ B 5	2½ W 12	2½ B 4	=11
7	Brad Duthie	1581	1 W 18	1 B 2	1½ W 14	2½ B 8	3½ W 10	=3
8	Sean Flanagan	1579	½ B 19	1½ W 21	1½ B 1	1½ W 7	2½ B 20	=11
9	Dave Hewitt	1512	1 *	1½ W 5	2 B 3	2½ B 14	3½ W 18	=3
10	Bill Cook	1507	1 W 20	1 B 4	2 B 15	3 W 3	3 B 7	=6
11	Nathanael Loch	1447	0 B 21	0 W 3	1 B 17	2 W 20	3 B 13	=6
12	Kenny MacPherson	1399	0 B 1	1 W 17	2 B 20	2 B 6	2 W 3	=14
13	Tom Wallace	1358	0 W 2	½ B 18	½ W 21	1½ B 16	1½ W 11	=17
14	Sandy Carmichael	1349	½ B 3	1½ W 19	2 B 7	2½ W 9	3 B 5	=6
15	Mick Bloor	1114	0 W 4	1 B 16	1 W 10	1 B 18	2 W 17	=14
16	Robbie McDermott	u/g	0 B 5	0 W 15	1 Bye	1 W 13	1 B 19	=19
17	Callum Richardson	759	0 W 6	0 B 12	0 W 11	1 W 19	1 B 15	=19
18	Thomas Forsyth	750	0 B 7	½ W 13	1½ B 19	2½ W 15	2½ B 9	=11
19	Euan Tortolano	611	½ W 8	½ B 14	½ W 18	½ B 17	1½ W 16	=17
20	Cameron Deer	u/g	0 B 10	1 Bye	1 W 12	1 B 11	1 W 8	=19
21	Comhnall Ferguson	u/g	1 W 11	1 B 8	2 B 13	2 -	2 -	=14

Matthew (left) and Isaac share the Robert Togneri Trophy.

14-11-2022 Stirling A v Grangemouth B

Stirling A		v		Grangemouth B
Shubham Lakudkar William Spiers Graham Anderson Steve Smith Richard Warcup	2040 1722 1670 1621 1519	1 - 0 1 - 0 ½ - ½ 1 - 0 1 - 0	1711 1626 1459 1543 1022	Alan Petrie Ian Mason Alasdair Sandham Bill Gray Scott Dickson
		4½ - ½

Thanks to Steve and William for the games below.

[Event "Stirling A v Grangemouth B"] [Site "Stirling CC"] [Date "2022.11.14"] [Round ""] [White "Smith, S"] [Black "Gray, B"] [Result "1-0"] 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 Ne7 5. Qg4 c5 6. Nf3 Nbc6 7. Bd3 g6 8. O-O cxd4 9. Nb5 Bc5 10. a3 Nf5 11. Re1 a6 12. Bg5 Qb6 13. Bf6 Rg8 14. Nd6+ Nxd6 15. exd6 { 15 b4 } 15... Bxd6 16. Qg5 Kd7 17. b4 Kc7 18. Qh4 h5 19. c4 dxc4 20. Bxc4 Bd7 21. Nxd4 Kb8 22. Nf3 Ka7 23. Red1 Qc7 24. Rab1 Rac8 25. b5 axb5 26. Bxb5 Rge8 27. Bxc6 Bxc6 28. Qd4+ Ka8 29. Qxd6 Qa5 30. Nd4 Bd5 31. Qb4 Qc7 32. Qa4+ Kb8 33. Nb5 Qc5 34. Be5+ { Black resigns. 34 ... Rc7 35 Nxc7 Qxc7 36 Qxe8+ Ka7 37 Bxc7 Bb3 38 Rxb3 b5 39 Qxb5 h4 40 Qa4# } 1-0

 

[Event "Stirling A v Grangemouth B"] [Site "Stirling CC"] [Date "2022.11.14"] [Round "-"] [White "Mason, I"] [Black "Spiers, W"] [Result "0-1"] 1. d4 g6 2. c4 Bg7 3. Nc3 d6 4. e4 e5 5. d5 Ne7 6. Be3 O-O 7. Qd2 f5 8. f3 f4 9. Bf2 g5 10. g4 h5 11. h3 Nd7 12. Nge2 Nf6 13. Nc1 c5 14. Nb3 b6 15. Bd3 a6 16. Qe2 hxg4 17. hxg4 Bd7 18. Nd2 Kf7 19. O-O-O Ng6 20. Rdg1 Rh8 21. Qe1 Qc7 22. Rxh8 Rxh8 23. Rh1 Qb8 24. Be2 b5 25. Rxh8 Nxh8 26. Qf1 b4 27. Ncb1 Ng6 28. Qh1 Qc8 29. Nb3 Qd8 30. N1d2 Qc7 31. Kb1 a5 32. Nc1 Qc8 33. Nd3 a4 34. Ne1 Kg8 35. Ng2 Bf8 36. Qd1 Kg7 37. Qh1 Be7 38. Kc1 Qh8 39. Qxh8+ Nxh8 40. Kc2 Nf7 41. Ne1 Nh6 42. Nd3 Nhxg4 43. fxg4 Nxg4 44. Bxg4 Bxg4 45. Bxc5 dxc5 46. Nxe5 Be2 47. Nd3 Bd6 48. Nf2 g4 49. b3 a3 { White resigns } 0-1

14-11-2022 Badgers Brook A v Stirling B

Badgers Brook A		v		Stirling B
Andrew Newton Kenny McGeoch Suzy Cooke Mark Cooke Jonathan Rowney	2007 1998 1969 1887 1622	1 - 0 1 - 0 1 - 0 1 - 0 ½ - ½	1569 1523 1513 1562 1487	Leyla Kim Brad Duthie Nathanael Loch Dave Hewitt Sean Flanagan
		4½ - ½

Thanks to Dave for this game, where he had White against Mark Cooke.

[Event "Badgers Brook A v Stirling B"] [Site "Badgers Brook CC"] [Date "2022.11.14"] [White "Hewitt, D"] [Black "Cooke, M"] [Result "0-1"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. Bf4 { A48 London System } Bg7 4. e3 d6 5. Bd3 O-O 6. O-O Nbd7 7. Nbd2 Nh5 8. Bg3 Nxg3 9. hxg3 e5 10. c3 Qe7 11. e4 Nf6 12. d5 Ng4 13. Nh4 f5 14. Be2 Nf6 15. exf5 gxf5 16. Qc2 Nxd5 17. Bc4 c6 18. Bxd5+ cxd5 19. Rae1 f4 20. Qd3 Be6 21. c4 e4 22. Qe2 e3 23. cxd5 Bxd5 24. Qd3 exf2+ 25. Kxf2 fxg3+ 26. Kg1 Qxh4 27. Rxf8+ Rxf8 28. Qxd5+ Kh8 29. Nf3 Qb4 30. Re7 Qxb2 31. Qxd6 Qf2+ 32. Kh1 Rxf3 33. Re8+ Rf8 34. Rxf8+ Qxf8 35. Qxg3 Bd4 36. Qh4 Qf1+ 37. Kh2 Qg1+ 38. Kh3 Qh1+ *

Quite similar to my recent loss to Graham Hamilton in the Grangemouth A match, although at least here I did have one brief opportunity to break out from the bind: if I play exf5 a move earlier than I actually did, on move 14 rather than 15, his Ng4 is hanging if he ends up with a R on f5. I only half saw this at best and was worried about discovered attacks generally if my Q ended up out in the open, but the computer likes it and clearly I should have gone for this - I might well have spotted it properly had I just played 14 exf5 anyway, as I almost did - I had quite a long think before opting for 14 Be2.

I deliberately gave up the d5 pawn a couple of moves later to try and get some activity and space, but it didn't come to anything and Mark played the latter half of the game very well. I missed until it was too late that his 25 ...fxg3+ was double check, and I almost resigned after 26 ...Qxh4 thinking I was getting mated on the spot, before realising that I could keep things going, for a while at least, with Nf3. But 29 ...Qb4 (played after quite a long think on his part) is a strong move and I was really just delaying the inevitable. I was skirmishing reasonably well at the end, and without much time on the clock - probably a benefit of the decent online form - but it wasn't good enough and I was well beaten.

31-10-2022 Stirling D v Badgers Brook B

Stirling D		v		Badgers Brook B
Harry Feather Kris Dimitrov Sandy Carmichael Gordon Allcock Callum Richardson	1327 1331 1283 1260 1097	1 - 0 1 - 0 ½ - ½ 1 - 0 0 - 1	1292 1114 894	Gordon Walker Colin Matthews Peter Woollven Mark Khordi-Moodi David Mahon
		3½ - 1½

31-10-2022 Stirling B v Grangemouth A

Stirling B		v		Grangemouth A
Richard Warcup John Blake Dave Hewitt Nathanael Loch Sean Flanagan	1519 1568 1562 1533 1487	1d - 0d 0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 1	2124 2066 1979 1953 1833	Uby Archibong John McLay Graham Hamilton Alan Bell Dougie Will
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