06-01-25 New Year Blitz

Well done to William and, er, me, joint winners of the opening night Blitz!

Time control: 3 minutes + 2 second increment each for all moves

	Name	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Rd 6	Rd 7	Place
1	William Spiers	1 W 10	2 B 21	3 W 6	4 W 8	4 B 3	5 W 4	6 B 5	=1
2	Bill Cook	0 B 11	1 W 17	2 B 10	3 W 7	4 B 8	4 W 3	4 B 4	=7
3	Graham Anderson	1W 12	1B 8	2W 22	3 B 9	4 W 1	5 B 2	6 W 6	=1
4	Richard Warcup	1 B 13	2 W 11	2 B 8	3 W 21	4 B 5	4 B 1	5 W 2	3
5	Nathanael Loch	1 W 14	2 B 9	2 W 12	3 B 20	3 W 4	4 B 6	4 W 1	=7
6	Douglas Heatlie	1 B 15	2 W 7	2 B 1	3 W 12	4 B 11	4 W 5	4 B 3	=7
7	Tom Nimmo	1 W 16	1 B 6	2 W 14	2 B 2	2½ W 22	2½ B 12	3½ W 19	=12
8	Ross Warcup	1 B 17	2 W 3	3 W 4	3 B 1	3 W 2	3 B 13	3 W 11	=14
9	Toby Geyer	1 B 18	1 W 5	2 B 11	2 W 3	2½ B 12	3½ W 15	4½ W 13	=4
10	Mick Bloor	0 B 1	1 W 19	1 W 2	1 B 22	1 B 13	1 W 18	2 B 16	=18
11	Marnix Joris	1 W 2	1 B 4	1 W 9	2 B 16	2 W 6	3 B 17	4 B 8	=7
12	Rudra Pardhi	0 B 3	1 W 16	2 B 5	2 B 6	2½ W 9	3½ W 7	3½ B 21	=12
13	Cameron Anderson	0 W 4	1 B 20	1 W 21	2 B 14	3 W 10	4 W 8	4 B 9	=7
14	Victor Liu	0 B 5	1 W 15	1 B 7	1 W 13	2 B 19	2 W 20	3 B 18	=14
15	Elsa Liu	0 W 6	0 B 14	1 W 20	2 B 17	3 W 16	3 B 9	3 W 22	=14
16	Samay Banakar	0 B 7	0 B 12	1 W 18	1 W 11	1 B 15	1 W 19	1 W 10	=21
17	Grishma Banakar	0 W 8	0 B 2	0 B 19	0 W 15	1 W 18	1 W 11	1 B 20	=21
18	Aarika Pawar	0 W 9	0 B 22	0 B 16	1 W 19	1 B 17	2 B 10	2 W 14	=21
19	Jamie Scanlon	0 W 20	0 B 10	1 W 17	1 B 18	1 W 14	2 B 16	2 B 17	=21
20	Rihaan Pawar	1 B 19	1 W 13	1 B 15	1 W 5	1 B 21	2 B 14	3 W 17	=14
21	Dave Hewitt	1 Bye	1 W 1	2 B 13	2 B 4	3 W 20	3½ B 22	4½ W 12	=4
22	Steve Smith	½ Bye	1½ W 18	1½ B 3	2½ W 10	3 B 7	3½ W 21	4½ B 15	=21

08-01-24 New Year Blitz

Congratulations to Dave Hewitt and Richard Warcup who finished joint first in the New Year Blitz with 6/7. Richard was the only person to beat Dave, and finished undefeated on the night with two draws against Kenny and Steve. The full results are on Dropbox here.

09-01-2023 - New Year's Blitz

Time control: 3 minutes + 2 seconds per move each for all moves

	Name	Grade	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Rd 6	Rd 7	Place
1	Jim Shemilt	1790	0 W 7	1 B 4	1 W 6	1 B 2	1½ W 12	2½ B 8	3½ W 11	=8
2	Steve Smith	1636	0 B 8	1 W 12	1 B 3	2 W 1	3 B 6	4 W 5	4 W 7	=2
3	Harley Lang	1585	0 W 9	1 B 11	2 W 2	2 B 4	2 W 8	3 B 12	3 W 6	10
4	Dave Hewitt	1512	0 B 10	0 W 1	1 B 12	2 W 3	3 W 11	3 B 7	3½ B 9	=8
5	Bill Cook	1507	1 W 11	2 B 9	2½ W 7	3½ B 6	4 W 10	4 B 2	4 W 8	=2
6	Nathanael Loch	1447	1 B 12	1 W 8	2 B 1	2 W 5	2 W 2	3 B 10	4 B 3	=2
7	Kenny MacPherson	1399	1 B 1	2 W 10	2½ B 5	3½ W 8	4½ B 9	5½ W 4	6½ B 2	1
8	Sandy Carmichael	1349	1 W 2	2 B 6	2 W 9	2 B 7	3 B 3	3 W 1	4 B 5	=2
9	Gordon Allcock	1346	1 B 3	1 W 5	2 B 8	2½ W 10	2½ W 7	3½ B 11	4 W 4	=2
10	Harry Feather	1333	1 W 4	1 B 7	2 W 11	2½ B 9	3 B 5	3 W 6	4 W 12	=2
11	Stewart Cairns	1099	0 B 5	0 W 3	0 B 10	1 W 12	1 B 4	1 W 9	1 B 1	11
12	Oleks Vynnytski	u/g	0 W 6	0 B 2	0 W 4	0 B 11	½ B 1	½ W 3	½ B 10	12

6 January 2020 - New Years Blitz

Congratulations to Bill Cook, who won the first competition of the decade with 5½/7. Well done Bill. A good close competition with everybody getting at least one win. The full cross-table of results is here - it's too wide to fit on this page.

In addition to the main event, Jim ran a similar competition for the young juniors. All participants did well, but particularly well done to Nadzieja and Kalina who came out on top with 7 points out of 9. Well done girls!

7 January 2019 - New Year's Blitz

Dave Hewitt writes:- Congratulations to Steve, who won the new year blitz tournament last Monday with a score of 6/7. He started with four straight wins, was then pegged back by a loss to Graham (which meant that Steve, Graham and Richard were tied for the lead after five rounds), but two wins to finish brought him the title after Graham beat Richard in r6 but could only draw with Bill in r7. Graham was thus second, while Richard and Tony (who started with three wins) were joint third. It was Steve's second win in club blitz events - he also won the agm blitz in September 2007.

There were some good scores for players further down the grading order, notably Nikolai and Kenny who each finished with 4/7, and Idris with 3.5/7. Everyone managed at least one win - always good to see - and it was also good that all 18 players, including the juniors, stayed for the full seven rounds.

Full cross-table results

8 January 2018 - Blitz

Well done to Gordon Allcock, winner of the opening night Blitz!

Time control: 3 minutes + 2 second increment each for all moves

	Name	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Rd 6	Rd 7	Place
1	Bill Cook	1 B 9	2 W 5	2 B 2	2 W 11	2½ B 4	3½ W 3	4½ B 13	=3
2	Graham Anderson	1 B 10	2 B 7	3 W 1	3 B 6	3 W 13	4 B 8	4½ W 5	=3
3	Steve Smith	1B 11	1W 6	1½B 4	2½ W 15	3 W 8	3 B 1	4 W 7	=6
4	Dave Hewitt	1 W 12	1½ B 8	2 W 3	2 B 13	2½ W 1	3½ B 15	3½ W 6	=8
5	Alex Scott	1 W 13	1 B 1	2 W 12	2 B 8	3 W 7	4 W 11	4½ B 2	=3
6	Gordon Allcock	1 W 14	2 B 3	2½ W 8	3½ W 2	4½ B 11	4½ W 13	5½ B 4	1
7	Alex Brimlow	1 B 15	1 W 2	1 B 11	2 W 10	2 B 5	3 W 9	3 B 3	=10
8	Robert Togneri	1 B 16	1½ W 4	2 B 6	3 W 5	3½ B 3	3½ W 2	3½ W 12	=8
9	Craig Thomson	0 W 1	0 B 13	0 B 15	1 *	2 W 12	2 B 7	3 W 11	=10
10	Idris Benwell	0 B 2	1 W 15	1 B 13	1 B 7	2 W 14	2 B 12	3 *	=10
11	Ross Warcup	0 W 3	1 B 14	2 W 7	3 B 1	3 W 6	3 B 5	3 B 9	=10
12	Martin Pringle	0 B 4	1 W 16	1 B 5	2 W 14	2 B 9	3 W 10	4 B 8	=6
13	Richard Warcup	0 B 5	1 W 9	2 W 10	3 W 4	4 B 2	5 B 6	5 W 1	2
14	Gordon Bowie	0 B 6	0 W 11	0 W 16	0 B 12	0 B 10	1 *	1 W 15	=15
15	Douglas Pringle	0 W 7	0 B 10	1 W 9	1 B 3	2 *	2 W 4	3 B 14	=10
16	Clive Wright	0 W 8	0 B 12	1 B 14	-	-	-	-	=15

9 January 2017 - Blitz

Dave Hewitt writes:- A lively and well-contested new year blitz tournament saw 12 players take part and the lead change hands repeatedly. Three draws in r2 allowed Martyn to become clear leader even at that early stage, and he maintained his 100% score by beating me in r3. Jim beat Martyn in r4 to take the lead, but Gordon beat Jim in r5 to move clear in turn. I then beat Gordon in r6 to sneak ahead, before a draw between Bill and me in r7 saw the title shared by Jim, Martyn and me, all on 5/7. The intention had been to play nine rounds, but a good suggestion by Steve was to end it at seven (at about 9pm), as Idris and Alex were about to go home whereupon it would have become tricky to work out legitimate pairings for the remaining ten players. There was consensus on this - plus, as Mick said, we were all a bit brain-dead by then - so we headed home (or, in the case of four of us, to the pub).

A three-way tie seemed a nice way for it to end, and it was something of a blanket finish generally, with nine of the players on 3½ or better. Carl did well again, 4½, and at the other end of the age range Robert T scored what's become his standard 50%, very respectable. Even lower down there were good games and results - Alex beat Idris in the latest of a series of tournament encounters that is likely to stretch away into the future, and although Idris failed to score he was completely winning against Robert in r4 before losing on time.

Full results here. The slightly curious pairings in r1 were due to me mistakenly thinking there were 13 players and that Jim could sit out, only to realise there were actually 12 and Jim needed to play (which he did to very good effect). Also Tom W and Mick were listed in the wrong grading order on the pairing cards for some muddle-headed reason.

Thanks to everyone for making it such an enjoyable tournament - a good mix of decent chess, blunders and swindles as ever. Thanks especially to Steve for lots of help with the pairings.

11 January 2016 - New Year Blitz

Dave Hewitt writes:- Last Monday saw the inaugural new year blitz tournament, played just for fun (no grading of games) and with a lively time control of three minutes plus two seconds per move. We managed to squeeze in nine rounds, and it developed into a scrap between Bill - who led for a while - and Graham, who took and retained the lead after Bill lost in r7. Graham's undefeated total of 8/9, courtesy of seven wins and two draws, was very impressive, and as he also holds the 15-minute allegro title he's very much the current king of the fast stuff at Stirling chess club.

Bill was clear second with 7/9, and the third step on the podium was quite crowded with Craig M, Michael and me all finishing on 5½/9.

Graham writes:- I can't fit the cross-table in, but for those interested in the full results, you can download the file here.