Keddie Cup 2015

Congratulations to Sam Cook, winner of the 2015 Keddie Cup handicap tournament! Starting as the lowest graded player in the tournament, Sam calmly beat every player put up against him, winning all of his group games and progressing through the knock-out stages to the final against Gordon Allcock. Starting a Queen and Knight down and with only three minutes to Sam's ten, Gordon made a good job of frustrating Sam's attacks, until, down to seconds, Gordon blundered a Rook which also turned out to be checkmate. Well done Sam!

Bill Cook presents Sam with the trophy.

Thanks to everyone who turned up, and special thanks to Dave Hewitt for his organisation.

Games

Thanks to Jim, Neil, and Dave for providing their games from recent matches against Dunfermline. Neil's will have to wait a while, until I can make his extensive analysis work on this website. In the meantime - the first game here is Jim Shemilt v Ian Robertson, where Jim had White.

Shemilt - Robertson

 

 

 

The second game is Dave Hewitt v Calum Smith. Analysis by Dave.

Hewitt - Smith

14 December 2015 - Central League Division 2

Dunfermline B v Stirling B
Ben Volland Stewart Brisbane Calum Smith Douglas Rew Bryan O'Rourke	1543 1530 1529 1521 1359	1 - 0 ½ - ½ ½ - ½ 1 - 0 1 - 0	1583 1562 1486 1460 1306	John Blake Tony Pitson Dave Hewitt Gordon Allcock Craig Manson
		4 - 1

7 December 2015 - Central League Division 2

Stirling C v Grangemouth B
Craig Manson David Brodie Robert Togneri Mick Bloor Tom McKay	1306 1301 1219 1183 798	0 - 1 1 - 0 1 - 0 1 - 0 0 - 1	1406 1350 862	Hugh Hanlon Crawford Welsh David Fowler Scott McKenzie Scott Dickson
		3 - 2

7 December 2015 - Central League Division 1

The closure of the Forth Road Bridge, and the resulting (unexpected) closure of the A907 between Alloa and Dunfermline saw boards 2, 4, and 5 start with 15 minutes less.

Dunfermline A v Stirling A
Ian Robertson   John McBride   Michael Roy   Stuart Black   Ben Volland	2085   1809   1679   1610   1543	0 - 1   0 - 1   0 - 1   1 - 0   0 - 1	1778   1748   1702   1671   1666	Jim Shemilt   Neil Irving   Steve Smith   Graham Anderson   Bill Cook
		1 - 4

A fine victory, marred only by my loss. Jim beat Ian on board 1, after Ian missed a checkmate in time trouble. My game from board 4 is below. Quite a wild game...

Anderson - Black

29 November 2015 - Scottish National Chess League

Division 1 - Dundee City A v Forth Valley A
Andrew Greet (IM)   David Findlay   Stephen Hogg   Sergey Tin   Carey Groves (WFM)	2496   2185   1981   1969   1887	½ - ½   1 - 0   ½ - ½   1 - 0   ½ - ½	2020   1778   1748   1719   1702	Kenny McGeoch   Jim Shemilt   Neil Irving   Ian Mason   Steve Smith
		3½ - 1½

Division 1 - Forth Valley A v East Kilbride A
Kenny McGeoch   Jim Shemilt   Neil Irving   Ian Mason   Steve Smith	2020   1778   1748   1719   1702	½ - ½   ½ - ½   1 - 0   0 - 1   0 - 1	1870   1840   1807   1639   1581	Lennart Koehn   Alan Jelfs   Anthony Dunlop   Frankie Murray   Tom Brisbane
		3 - 2

Division 3 - Oban v Forth Valley B
Alistair Campbell   Hugh Flockhart   Derek Coope   Peter Doris   Jeffrey Robinson	1737   1425   1365   1256   931	½ - ½   1 - 0   0 - 1   0 - 1   0 - 1	1666   1502   1460   1406   1301	Bill Cook   Robin Hayles   Bill Gray   Hugh Hanlon   David Brodie
		1½ - 3½

Division 3 - Forth Valley B v Dunfermline Knights
Bill Cook   Robin Hayles   Bill Gray   Hugh Hanlon   David Brodie	1666   1502   1460   1406   1301	0 - 1   ½ - ½   ½ - ½   0 - 1   1 - 0	2085   1610   1530   1357   1252	Ian Robertson   Stuart Black   Stewart Brisbane   Peter Horne   Glynis Grant
		2 - 3