24 March 2013 - Scottish National Chess League

I forgot to add this at the time, so for the sake of completeness here are the results from the final round of the SNCL.

Giffnock & Clarkston A v Forth Valley A
Calum MacQueen   Neil Thomson   Antonios Floros   Rosie Giulian   Andrew MacQueen	2272   1918   1819   1787   1648	½ - ½   ½ - ½   1 - 0   1 - 0   1 - 0	1858   1839   1762   1708   1625	Dougie Will   Kenny McGeoch   Ian Mason   Steve Smith   Robin Hayles
		4 - 1

This defeat means Forth Valley A are relegated to Division 2 for next season.

Forth Valley B v Oban
Dave Hewitt   Bill Cook   Bill Gray       Robert Leckie	1589   1575   1527	½ - ½   ½ - ½   ½ - ½   0d - 1d   ½ - ½	1898   1799   1576       1363	Duncan Campbell   Alistair Campbell   Hugh Flockhart       Peter Doris
		2 - 3

Forth Valley B finished one point above the relegation zone, and will play in Division 3 again next season.

15 April 2013 - Central League Cup (7 board knockout)

Stirling v Badgers Brook
Douglas Bain   Steve Smith   Robin Hayles   Dave Hewitt   Bill Cook   Graham Anderson   Martyn Roe	2019   1708   1625   1589   1575   1574   1465	1 - 0   ½ - ½   0 - 1   0 - 1   1 - 0   0 - 1   1 - 0	1927   1839   1726   1645   1546   1366   1281	Mark Cooke   Kenny McGeoch   Andrew McHarg   Stuart Ward   Graham Kerr   Steven McHarg   Derek Raffan
		3½ - 3½

The board count for victories is the same. Badgers Brook progress to the Final after the result from the bottom board is eliminated.

3 April 2013 - Central League Division 2 - Stirling B are champions!

Dunfermline B v Stirling B
Fred Ossowski   Douglas Rew   Stewart Brisbane   Bryan O'Rourke   Peter Horne	1647   1566   1562   1412   1261	1 - 0   ½ - ½   1 - 0   0 - 1   0 - 1	1659   1589   1575   1564   1543	Neil Irving   Dave Hewitt   Bill Cook   Tony Pitson   John Blake
		2½ - 2½

In terms of the order in which the games ended, Neil lost on time in a better position against Fred, then Tony equalised with a very solid win against Bryan. I should probably have won my game against Doug but he defended stoutly for a draw by repetition, by which time John was well on the way against Peter - whose resignation sealed the league for us. That just left Bill trying to salvage a tricky position against Stewart, which thankfully didn't matter in league terms (although both players appeared to think it did), and in the end Bill's flag fell. The final league table look like this:-

	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Game Points	Match Points
Stirling B   Dunfermline B   Dunfermline C   Stirling C	6   6   6   6	3   3   1   0	3   2   3   2	0   1   2   4	20   18   14   8	9   8   5   2

Congratulations to all involved!

27 March 2013 - Under 1500 Cup

Cumbernauld v Stirling
David Johnstone   Ronnie Wallace   Haydon Williams   Derek McAteer   George Ford	1494   1482   1373   1258   796	0 - 1   1 - 0   1 - 0   0 - 1   0 - 1	1416   1330   1281   1267   831	Gordon Allcock   Craig Manson   David Brodie   Robert Togneri   Tom McKay
		2 - 3

Well done to all! The final is provisionally booked for 13 May 2013.