Stirling Chess Club: November 2015

Wednesday, 25 November 2015

Grangemouth Tigers 9 - 7 Stirling Bruce

Round 1
Uby Archibong	1 - 0	Dave Hewitt
Ian Mason	½ - ½	John Blake
Bill Gray	0 - 1	Graham Anderson
Hugh Hanlon	0 - 1	Bill Cook
Round 2
Uby Archibong	1 - 0	Bill Cook
Ian Mason	1 - 0	Dave Hewitt
Bill Gray	0 - 1	John Blake
Hugh Hanlon	0 - 1	Graham Anderson
Round 3
Uby Archibong	1 - 0	Graham Anderson
Ian Mason	½ - ½	Bill Cook
Bill Gray	1 - 0	Dave Hewitt
Hugh Hanlon	0 - 1	John Blake
Round 4
Uby Archibong	1 - 0	John Blake
Ian Mason	1 - 0	Graham Anderson
Bill Gray	½ - ½	Bill Cook
Hugh Hanlon	½ - ½	Dave Hewitt

Badgers Brook B v Stirling B
Robert McCord Derek Raffan Gordon Walker Kevin Aitken Dylan Gillies	1361 1251 1142 959	1 - 0 0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 1	1583 1502 1486 1460 1301	John Blake Robin Hayles Dave Hewitt Gordon Allcock David Brodie
		1 - 4

Time control: 15 minutes each for all moves

	Name	Grade	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Place

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12	Graham Anderson Steve Smith Robin Hayles Dave Hewitt David Brodie Gordon Allcock Robert Togneri Mick Bloor Craig Manson James Warwick Sam Cook James Taylor	1630 1600 1506 1448 1389 1371 1238 1215 1165 1075 488 u/g	1 W 7 1 B 8 1 W 9 1 B 10 1 W 11 1 B 12 0 B 1 0 W 2 0 B 3 0 W 4 0 B 5 0 W 6	2 B 4 1½ W 5 1 B 6 1 W 1 1½ B 2 2 W 3 1 W 10 1 W 11 0 W 12 0 B 7 0 W 8 1 B 9	3 W 6 1½ B 3 2 W 2 1 B 5 2½ W 4 2 B 1 2 B 12 1 W 9 1 B 8 1 W 11 0 B 10 1 W 7	4 B 5 2½ B 6 2½ B 7 2 W 12 2½ W 1 2 W 2 2½ W 3 2 Bye 2 W 10 1 B 9 0 1 B 4	4½ B 2 3 W 1 3½ W 5 2 W 7 2½ B 3 2½ B 9 3½ B 4 3 B 11 2½ W 6 1 0 1 W 8	1 =4 =2 9 =6 =6 =2 =4 =6 =10 12 =10

Robert (left) presents his eponymous trophy to Graham.

Cumbernauld B v Stirling B
Derek McAteer Ulugbek Abdurahmanov George Ford Martin Murphy Euan Wallace	1336 758 485 744	0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 1	1502 1486 1460 1301 1219	Robin Hayles Dave Hewitt Gordon Allcock David Brodie Robert Togneri
		0 - 5

The game below is from board 1, where Robin had White against Derek McAteer.

Hayles - McAteer

These are intended for the juniors, but obviously anyone can have a shot. No computers!

White has just played 4 h3. Find Black's best move.

Black has just retreated his Knight to e8. White to play and win. What is White's best move?

Answers will be in the comments when I remember...

Stirling B v Grangemouth B
John Blake Tony Pitson Dave Hewitt Gordon Allcock Craig Manson	1583 1562 1486 1460 1306	0 - 1 1 - 0 ½ - ½ ½ - ½ 1 - 0	1406 1350 1254 862	Hugh Hanlon Crawford Welsh Ross Heenan David Fowler Scott Dickson
		3 - 2

Cumbernauld B v Stirling C
Abdurahanov George Ford Aiden Connor Martin Murphy Joseph MacFarlane	666 485 581	0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 1 1 - 0	1306 1301 1183 963 612	Craig Manson David Brodie Mick Bloor David Little James Warwick
		1 - 4