19 December 2016 - Keddie Cup

The Cake Defence

Twenty five people took part in Monday night's Keddie Cup. Kudos to Mrs Cook for providing the chess piece cupcakes! The Cake Defence was much in evidence, as was the Mince Pie Attack, and it was also good to see Lucky Christmas Jumper sacrifice. Carl and I made it through to the Final.

Having already beaten Carl in the group stage (the only person to have done so), I was frankly sceptical of lightning striking twice. So it proved, with Carl making mincemeat of my poorly structured attack, and even having time to make several mince pies out of it before I resigned.

Congratulations to Carl, seen here receiving the trophy from president Tony Pitson, and a special thanks to Dave Hewitt for all his organisation.

The club will reconvene on Monday 9 January 2017. Merry Christmas!

12 December 2016 - Robert Togneri Trophy

Congratulations to Kyle Kirkpatrick, winner of the club allegro on Monday with 4½/5. Kyle is seen (having to crouch, to fit into the photo) above receiving the trophy from Robert.

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   13   14   15   16   17   18	Graham Anderson   James Warwick   Steve Smith   Bill Cook   Tony Pitson   Dave Hewitt   Gordon Allcock   David Brodie   Kyle Kirkpatrick   Robert Togneri   Robert Leckie   Tom Wallace   Nick Bloor   Zihan Kang   Idris Benwell   Alex Brimlow   Craig Thomson   Joe Hirst	1689   1035   1637   1567   1524   1516   1467   1396   1360   1253   1250   1243   1206   803   362   344   u/g   u/g	1 W 10   0 B 11   1 W 12   1 B 13   1 W 14   1 B 15   1 W 16   1 B 17   1 W 18   0 B 1   1 W 2   0 B 3   0 W 4   0 B 5   0 W 6   0 B 7   0 W 8   0 B 9	1 B 6   0 W 13   2 B 8   2 W 7   1½ B 9   2 W 1   1 B 4   1 W 3   1½ W 5   ½ W 11   1½ B 10   1 W 18   1 B 2   1 W 17   1 B 16   0 W 15   0 W 14   0 W 12	1 W 12   0 B 17   2½ W 4   2½ B 3   2 W 6   2½ B 5   1 W 14   2 B 13   2½ B 11   1½ B 15   1½ W 9   2 B 1   1 W 8   2 B 7   1 W 10   0 B 18   1 W 2   1 W 16	2 W 17   1 Bye   3½ B 6   2½ W 9   3 B 12   2½ W 3   2 B 18   2 W 11   3½ B 4   2½ W 13   2½ B 8   2 W 5   1 B 10   -   -   -   1 B 1   1 W 17	2 B 8   -   3½ W 9   3 B 5   3½ W 4   2½ B 11   3 W 10   3 W 1   4½ B 3   2½ B 7   3½ W 6   2½ B 13   1½ W 12   -   -   -   1 W 18   2 B 17	=11   =15   =2   =5   =2   =8   =5   =5   1   =8   =2   =8   14   =11   =15   18   =15   =11

7 December 2016 - Central League Division 2

Grangemouth B v Stirling C
Crawford Welsh Scott McKenzie David Fowler Scott Dickson	1272 1070 1010 977	0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 1 ½ - ½ 1d - 0d	1387 1381 1267 1163	Craig Manson David Brodie Robert Togneri Mick Bloor
		1½ - 3½

A fine win for the C team, even with the default when Carl was unable to make it.

5 December 2016 - Central League Division 2

Stirling B v Dunfermline B
Tony Pitson Robert Leckie Dave Hewitt Gordon Allcock Martyn Roe	1553 1469 1474 1454 1428	½ - ½ 0 - 1 ½ - ½ 0 - 1 1 - 0	1642 1568 1512 1385 1196	Jamie O'Connor Calum Smith Stewart Brisbane Peter Horne Mark McLintock
		2 - 3