13 December 2021 - Medal Award

Last month, Callum, Euan and Cameron participated in the Battle of the Schools online chess competition (https://lichess.org/swiss/JywWauBt) - and, once their scores were aggregated together, won it for Stirling High! Well done boys! The photo below is the boys with their medals, and I presented Mr Cassidy (head teacher at Stirling High) with the trophy earlier today.

Updated:-

Congratulations to Callum, Cameron and Euan for winning the online Chess Battle of the Schools. We are very proud of your achievement! pic.twitter.com/6n0CdjbJxh

— Stirling High School (@Stirling_High) December 14, 2021

13 December 2021 - Padowans v Parents

Tonight saw a crunch match, with the Padowans looking to show off everything they've learned over the last few months and put it in to practice. As it turned out, the match was just as close as the score suggests. Well done Padowans, we're very proud of you!

My thanks to the parents who took this in the spirit intended, and my apologies again for the equipment malfunction which saw some of the sets missing pieces. Thanks to Jim for the brain food, and thanks to Mick and Craig for standing in

Padowans	v	Parents
Cameron McG Callum Nadzieja Kalina Douglas Ross Cameron A Euan Samay Yashvi	1 - 0 1 - 0 1 - 0 1 - 0 1 - 0 1 - 0 1 - 0 1 - 0 1 - 0 1 - 0	Mum Stand-in Dad (Mick) Mum Mum Stand-in Dad (Craig) Dad Mum Dad Yashvi's Dad Samay's Dad
	10 - 0

6 December 2021 - Internal Allegro Match

Stirling Bruce 6-9 Stirling Douglas
Round 1
Bill Cook	0 - 1	Brad Duthie
Sam Cook	0 - 1	Sam Coates
Callum Richardson	0 - 1	Mick Bloor
Sandy Carmichael	1 - 0	Cameron Anderson
Round 2
Bill Cook	1 - 0	Mick Bloor
Sam Cook	0 - 1	Brad Duthie
Callum Richardson	0 - 1	Cameron Anderson
Sandy Carmichael	0 - 1	Sam Coates
Round 3
Bill Cook	0 - 1	Sam Coates
Sam Cook	1 - 0	Cameron Anderson
Callum Richardson	0 - 1	Brad Duthie
Dave Hewitt	1 - 0	Harley Lang
Round 4
Bill Cook	1 - 0	Cameron Anderson
Sam Cook	1 - 0	Harley Lang
Callum Richardson	0 - 1	Sam Coates
Dave Hewitt	void	Brad Duthie

6 December 2021 - Internal Allegro Match

Stirling Castle 9-7 Stirling Wallace
Round 1
Steve Smith	0 - 1	William Spiers
Richard Warcup	1 - 0	Nathanael Loch
Isaac Browning	1 - 0	Gordon Allcock
Euan Tortolano	0 - 1	Toby Geyer
Round 2
Steve Smith	1 - 0	Nathanael Loch
Richard Warcup	0 - 1	Kenny MacPherson
Isaac Browning	1 - 0	Toby Geyer
Euan Tortolano	0 - 1	William Spiers
Round 3
Steve Smith	1 - 0	Kenny MacPherson
Richard Warcup	1 - 0	Toby Geyer
Isaac Browning	1 - 0	William Spiers
Euan Tortolano	0 - 1	Nathanael Loch
Round 4
Steve Smith	1 - 0	Toby Geyer
Richard Warcup	0 - 1	William Spiers
Isaac Browning	1 - 0	Nathanael Loch
Euan Tortolano	0 - 1	Gordon Allcock

These are the correct results, but I don't have a note of the actual order of the games.

22 November 2021 - Internal Friendly Match

With the continuing absence of league chess, this was a second internal friendly match - nominally the A's v Rising Stars. Board 10 was chosen as a juniors only game. Time control was 60 minutes for 30 moves, plus 20 minutes allegro. Results will be sent for grading.

Stirling A		v		Stirling Rising Stars
Shubham Lakudkar Steve Smith William Spiers Graham Anderson Bill Cook Brad Duthie Richard Warcup Kenny MacPherson Gordon Allcock Euan Tortolano	2023 1722 1657 1657 1542 1486 1477 1372 1256	1 - 0 0 - 1 1 - 0 1 - 0 1 - 0 1 - 0 1 - 0 1 - 0 1 - 0 0 - 1	1497         1330	Isaac Browning Kris Dimitrov Nathanael Loch Sean Flanagan Ruaridh Simpson Harry Feather Sandy Carmichael Harley Lang Stuart Hill Toby Geyer
		8 - 2

1 November 2021 - 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	Shubham Lakudkar	2023	1 W 14	2 B 27	3 W 18	4 B 4	5 W 6	1
2	Steve Smith	1722	1 B 15	1 W 13	2 B 7	3 W 23	3 B 14	=7
3	Isaac Browning	1703	1W 16	2B 12	2 W 6	2 B 14	3 W 11	=7
4	William Spiers	1657	1 B 17	2 W 11	3 B 13	3 W 1	3½ B 18	=4
5	Graham Anderson	1657	0 W 18	1 B 26	1 W 10	2 B 21	3 W 12	=7
6	Brad Duthie	1543	1 B 19	2 W 9	3 B 3	3½ W 10	3½ B 1	=4
7	Bill Cook	1542	1 W 20	1½ B 10	1½ W 2	2½ B 22	2½ W 13	13
8	Dave Hewitt	1531	1 Bye	1 B 18	1 W 20	2 B 27	3 W 22	=7
9	Richard Warcup	1477	1 W 22	1 B 6	2 W 12	2 B 18	2 -	=14
10	Sean Flanagan	u/g	1 B 23	1½ W 7	2½ B 5	3 B 6	3 W 20	=7
11	Craig Manson	1373	1 W 24	1 B 4	1 W 14	2 B 25	2 B 3	=14
12	Nathanael Loch	u/g	1 B 25	1 W 3	1 B 9	2 W 28	2 B 5	=14
13	Lito Tounta	1277	1 W 26	2 B 2	2 W 4	2 B 20	3 B 7	=7
14	Gordon Allcock	1256	0 B 1	1 W 25	2 B 11	3 W 3	4 W 2	=2
15	Ruaridh Simpson	u/g	0 W 2	0 B 20	0 W 25	1 B 26	2 W 28	=14
16	Ross Coupland	1107	0 B 3	0 W 23	0 B 21	1 W 17	2 W 27	=14
17	Glen Wilson	1023	0 W 4	0 B 24	1 W 26	1 B 16	1 -	=23
18	Sam Cook	1080	1 B 5	2 W 8	2 B 1	3 W 9	3½ W 4	=4
19	Martin Pringle	1020	0 W 6	1 W 28	1 W 22	1 -	1 -	=23
20	Harley Lang	u/g	0 B 7	1 W 15	2 B 8	3 W 13	4 B 10	=2
21	Craig Thomson	826	0 W 27	0 B 22	1 W 16	1 W 5	1 B 25	=23
22	Jordan Leach	653	0 B 9	1 W 21	2 B 19	2 W 7	2 B 8	=14
23	Ross Warcup	767	0 W 10	1 B 16	2 W 24	2 B 2	2 -	=14
24	Douglas Pringle	440	0 B 11	1 W 17	1 B 23	1 -	1 -	=23
25	Sandy Carmichael	u/g	0 W 12	0 B 14	1 B 15	1 W 11	2 W 21	=14
26	Callum Richardson	u/g	0 B 13	0 W 5	0 B 17	0 W 15	1 -	=23
27	Euan Tortolano	u/g	1 B 21	1 W 1	1 B 28	1 W 8	1 B 16	=23
28	Cameron Anderson	237	½ -	½ W 19	1½ W 27	1½ B 12	1½ W 15	22

A record turnout for this tournament - 28 players. Congratulations to Shubham, winning this with 5/5 on his first attempt!Many thanks to Dave for his organisational efforts on the evening.

Gordon Allcock (left) presents the trophy to Shubham

11 October 2021 - Internal Friendly Match

In the absence of league chess, this match was arranged as an internal 'friendly' to give the oldies a chance to get back into the swing of things, and the newbies some experience. Board 7 was chosen as a juniors only game, and board 8 was added to give two new members the chance to play. Time control was 60 minutes for 30 moves, plus 20 minutes allegro. Results will be sent for grading.

Stirling B		v		Stirling C
Brad Duthie Richard Warcup Kenny MacPherson Kris Dimitrov Dave Hewitt Ross Coupland Toby Geyer Lito Tounta	1486 1477 1372   1531 1107   (1277)	1 - 0 1 - 0 1 - 0 0 - 1 1 - 0 0 - 1 0 - 1 1 - 0	1497 1256 1132 1023 413	Sean Flanagan Nathanael Loch Isaac Browning Gordon Allcock Mick Bloor Glen Wilson Alex Brimlow Raghu Raj
		5 - 3