Central League Division 1 Stirling B 2-3 Grangemouth A Leo Gardner 1896 ½-½ John McLay 2016 Richard Warcup 1636 0-1 Graham Hamilton 1905 Brad Duthie 1552 1-0 Pranav Hariharan 1747 Bill Cook 1544 0-1 Duncan Glassey 1722 Steve Smith 1530 ½-½ Alan Petrie 1685 Central League Division 2 Stirling E ½-4½ Stirling C Mick Murphy 1087 0-1 Kenny MacPherson 1506 Mick Bloor 1084 0-1 Harry Feather 1461 Stewart Cairns 719 0-1 Toby Geyer 1302 Rudra Pardhi 930 0-1 Kelechi Nwosu u/g William Feather 875 ½-½ Tom Wallace 1313
Saturday, 22 November 2025
2025-11-17 Two League Matches at Home
Wednesday, 12 November 2025
2025-11-12 Allegro Match at Grangemouth
Grangemouth Tigers -v- Stirling Bruce
Round 1
John McLay 2058 0-1 Leo Gardner 1985
Alan Petrie 1692 0-1 Isaac Browning 1938
Joe Johnson u/g 0-1 Kenny MacPherson 1568
Sean Gray u/g 0-1 Dave Hewitt 1367
0-4
Round 2
McLay ½-½ Browning
Petrie 1-0 MacPherson
Johnson 0-1 Hewitt
Gray 0-1 Gardner
1½-2½
1½-6½
Round 3
McLay 1-0 MacPherson
Petrie 1-0 Hewitt
Johnson 0-1 Gardner
Gray 0-1 Browning
2-2
3½-8½
Round 4
McLay 1-0 Hewitt
Petrie 0-1 Gardner
Johnson 0-1 Browning
Gray 0-1 MacPherson
1-3
4½-11½
Bruce had white in the even rounds.
Individual scores:
Tigers: McLay 2½, Petrie 2/4, Gray 0/4, Johnson 0/4
Bruce: Gardner 4/4, Browning 3½/4, Hewitt 2/4, MacPherson 2/4
Dave Hewitt, the Stirling Bruce captain provided this summary of the match:
A hard-fought match ended in a fairly comfortable win for the visiting team, who reached the necessary score with a round to spare.
From a Stirling point of view, Leo - from Barcelona - had an excellent allegro league debut and looks like being quite a force in the Central League during the four years he'll be a student here. Isaac again showed his fondness for spending lengthy periods at the end of games living on the increment and doing it well. Kenny continued his recent good form. For Grangemouth, John and Alan were solid and reliable as ever, and Joe and Sean are getting stronger all the while and will certainly score better than this in matches to come.
Tuesday, 11 November 2025
2025-10-10 Two Matches against Dunfermline
Stirling hosted a double-header against Dunfermline, and both home teams ended the evening victorious.
Central League Division 1 Match Stirling A 4-1 Dunfermline A Isaac Browning 2054 1-0 Volodymyr Tushynsky 2176 John Iwuozor 2020 ½-½ Ian Robertson 2059 Leo Gardner 1889 1-0 John McBride 1715 William Spiers 1758 1-0 Calum Smith 1599 Sean Flanagan 1698 ½-½ Gregor McCloskey 1571 Stirling had white on boards 3 and 5The Stirling A team had a strengthened line-up with Leo Gardner winning on his first appearance for the club. Isaac Browning, the Stirling A captain, reports:
A tighter match than the score line would perhaps suggest.
Ian and John Iwuozor (who had arrived ten minutes late) drew what seemed to be a fairly peaceful game; Sean and Gregor likewise. Leo, Stirling's newest recruit, managed to get the better of John McBride from a position with queens and two minor pieces each.
I beat Volodymyr after emerging from a very complicated opening with an extra pawn, which eventually became two due to white's problematic structure. William was down a pawn at one point but managed to regain it and ultimately caught Calum's king in a mating trap to round off the match.
Central League Division 2 Match Stirling D 3-2 Dunfermline B 1. Harry Feather 1461 0-1 Euan Bell 1429 2. David Fowler 1300 ½-½ Douglas Rew 1369 3. Tom Wallace 1313 1-0 Daniel Lynch 1239 4. Kai Austin 946 ½-½ Ali Shuttleworth 1207 5. Victor Liu 928 1-0 Barrie Dempster 896 Dunfermline had white on boards 3,4 and 5The Junior players for both sides put in strong performance. Tom Wallace reports:
A very close game tonight between Stirling D and Dunfermline B.
Stirling Junior Kai Austin drew with Ali Shuttleworth with a perpetual quite quickly on board 4. David Fowler and Douglas Rew on board 2 swapped off pieces to leave a rook and 5 pawn draw. Another Stirling Junior Victor Liu won on board 5 against Barrie Dempster.
On board 1 Dunfermline Junior Euan Bell beat Harry Feather which left the score 2-2 with my game on board 3 against Daniel Lynch deciding the overall result.
I had black and put a lot of pressure on white until a miscalculation with not a lot of time left on both sides where Daniel had a dangerous passed d-pawn with only the queens and 4 pawns each. I sacrificed a b-pawn and Daniel quickly moved his queen up the queenside to capture more pawns and leaving his King to a back row mate which I gladly grabbed.
Sunday, 2 November 2025
28/10/25 Two Allegro Matches at Dunfermline
Dunfermline hosted two Stirling teams in the Central Allegro League on Tuesday evening. Stirling Bruce had White on all boards in Rounds 1 and 3 in their match against the Minnows.
Dunfermline Minnows 7½-8½ Stirling Bruce
Round 1
Ian Robertson 1979 0-1 John Iwuozor 1861
Calum Smith 1798 ½-½ Jim Shemilt 1659
Dimitris Giannakopoulos 1378 0-1 Kenny MacPherson 1568
George Webb 1352 ½-½ Dave Hewitt 1367
1-3
Round 2
Robertson 1-0 Shemilt
Smith 0-1 MacPherson
Giannakopoulos ½-½ Hewitt
Webb 0-1 Iwuozor
1½-2½
2½-5½
Round 3
Robertson 1-0 MacPherson
Smith 1-0 Hewitt
Giannakopoulos 0-1 Iwuozor
Webb 0-1 Shemilt
2-2
4½-7½
Round 4
Robertson 1-0 Hewitt
Smith 1-0 Iwuozor
Giannakopoulos 1-0 Shemilt
Webb 0-1 MacPherson
3-1
Individual Scores
Minnows: Robertson 3, Smith 2½, Giannakopoulos 1½, Webb ½
Bruce: Iwuozor 3, Shemilt 1½, MacPherson 3, Hewitt 1
In the other match of the evening, Stirling Wallace had White on all boards in Rounds 1 and 3 against the Sharks.
Dunfermline Sharks 9½-6½ Stirling Wallace
Round 1
Volodymyr Tushinskyi 2276 1-0 William Spiers 1784
John McBride 1780 0-1 Nathanael Loch 1581
Gregor McCloskey 1372 1-0 Douglas Heatlie 1454
Euan Bell 1404 ½-½ Toby Geyer 1487
2½-1½
Round 2
Tushynskyi 1-0 Geyer
McBride 0-1 Spiers
McCloskey 1-0 Loch
Bell 0-1 Heatlie
2-2
4½-3½
Round 3
Tushynskyi 1-0 Heatlie
McBride 0-1 Geyer
McCloskey 1-0 Spiers
Bell 0-1 Loch
2-2
6½-5½
Round 4
Tushynskyi 1-0 Loch
McBride 0-1 Heatlie
McCloskey 1-0 Geyer
Bell 1-0 Spiers
3-1
Individual scores
Sharks: Tushynskyi 4, McBride 0, McCloskey 4, Bell 1½
Wallace: Spiers 1, Loch 2, Heatlie 2, Geyer 1½
Friday, 31 October 2025
27-10-2025 Robert Togneri Trophy
The Robert Togneri Trophy, the club's bi-annual allegro tournament, was won on Monday night by eighth-ranked Toby Geyer, pictured below being congratulated by Club President Gordon Allcock.
25 people played in all, but only 18 played in all five rounds, mainly due to the younger juniors having to leave before close of play. However, there were no byes. Graham played in just round 3, to replace Jamie. Rudra and Garry then dropped out after Round 3, as did Steve to keep it at an even number. Victor and Elsa dropped out after round 4. Overall, 55 games were played: 12 in each of the first three rounds, ten in round 4, nine in round 5.
Thanks to Graham for the photograph and Dave for the crosstable.
Thursday, 23 October 2025
2025-10-23 League Results Round-up
I had got behind with reporting the results of the Central League matches, but below you will find a major update starting with this week's results and going in reverse chronological order back to late September.
The results start off with what I think was our first visit to the new Clackmannanshire club in Alloa for a competitive match.
2025-10-22 Division 2 Match Clackmannanshire 0-5 Stirling C 1. Glen Wilson 1082 0-1 Nathanael Loch 1488 2. Luke Evans u/g 0-1 Kenny MacPherson 1504 3. Dale Carberry u/g 0-1 Kelechi Nwosu u/g 4. Joseph Lambert u/g 0-1 Toby Geyer 1332 5. Roman Quinn u/g 0-1 Dave Hewitt 1500Two days earlier the Stirling B team were at home to Grangemouth B in while the E team ventured to Broxburn to play Badgers Brook.
2025-10-20 Division 1 Match Stirling B ½-4½ Grangemouth B 1. Brad Duthie 1552 0-1 Alan Bell 1948 2. Ross Warcup 1494 0-1 Daniel Kitaev 1928 3. Richard Warcup 1637 ½-½ Dougie Will 1839 4. Bill Cook 1544 0-1 Crawford Welsh 1243 5. Steve Smith 1549 0-1 Joe Johnson u/g 2025-10-20 Division 2 Match Badgers Brook 3-2 Stirling E 1. Kevin Brown 1318 0-1 Sandy Carmichael 1357 2. Antonio La Gamma 1269 1-0 Mick Murphy 1087 3. David Lawrence 1180 0-1 Stewart Cairns 719 4. Corey Dolan u/g 1-0 Chris Woodhouse u/g 5. Matthew McEwan u/g 1-0 Elsa Liu u/gThe previous Monday there was a double-header at home against Badgers Brook and Clackmannanshire.
2025-10-13 Division 1 Match Stirling A 3½-1½ Badgers Brook 1. Isaac Browning 2054 1-0 Kenny McGeoch 2014 2. John Iwuozor 2020 1-0 Stuart Ward 1868 3. William Spiers 1758 0-1 Jonathan Rowney 1543 4. Sean Flanagan 1698 ½-½ Colin Matthews 1394 5. Stephen Smith 1549 1-0 Corey Dolan u/g 2025-10-13 Division 2 Match Stirling D 4½-½ Clackmannanshire 1. Harry Feather 1461 1-0 John Blake 1546 2. David Fowler 1300 1-0 Glen Wilson 1047 3. Tom Wallace 1313 1-0 Luke Evans u/g 4. Kai Austin 946 ½-½ Vytautas Jakstys u/g 5. Victor Liu u/g 1-0 Joseph Lambert u/gThere was only one League match played in the week commencing Monday 6 October.
2025-10-06 Division 2 Match
Stirling C 3½-1½ Badgers Brook B
1. Nathanael Loch 1515 1-0 Graham Kerr 1482
2. Kenny MacPherson 1506 1-0 Colin Matthews 1394
3. Kelechi Nwosu u/g 0-1 Gordon Walker 1237
4. Toby Geyer 1302 ½-½ David Lawrence 1170
5. Dave Hewitt 1493 1-0 Peter Woollven 907
Going back to the last Tuesday in September, Stirling had two teams in action away to Dunfermline.
30-09-2025 Division 1 Match
Dunfermline A 4½-½ Stirling B
1. Volodymyr Tushynskyi 2176 1-0 Jim Shemilt 1707
2. Ian Robertson 2059 1-0 Richard Warcup 1637
3. Calum Smith 1599 ½-½ Brad Duthie 1552
4. Gordon Greig 1560 1-0 Douglas Heatlie 1563
5. Dimitris Giannakopoulos 1400 1-0 Steve Smith 1549
30-09-2025 Division 2 Match
Dunfermline B 2½-2½ Stirling C
1. Gregor McCloskey 1630 1-0 Nathanael Loch 1515
2. Euan Bell 1427 1-0 Kenny MacPherson 1506
3. Douglas Rew 1369 ½-½ Harry Feather 1461
4. George Webb 1316 0-1 Toby Geyer 1302
5. Barrie Dempster 896 0-1 Dave Hewitt 1493
The last match in our round-up to link up with the two earlier results of the 2025-6 season, already posted, is an away match at Grangemouth
24-09-2025 Division 1 Match
Grangemouth B 2½-2½ Stirling A
1. Alan Bell 1948 ½-½ Isaac Browning 2054
2. Daniel Kitaev 1928 0-1 John Iwuozor 2020
3. Dougie Will 1839 1-0 William Spiers 1758
4. John Smith 1653 1-0 James Shemilt 1707
5. Bill Gray 1486 0-1 Ross Warcup 1494
Monday, 22 September 2025
15-09-25 Stirling E -v- Stirling D
Stirling E 2½-2½ Stirling D Gordon Allcock 1230 0-1 Harry Feather 1461 Mick Bloor 1084 1-0 Tom Wallace 1313 Mick Murphy 1087 0-1 David Fowler 1300 Charles Thomson u/g ½-½ Kai Austin 946 Stewart Cairns 719 1-0 Josh Heesom u/g
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