25 September 2017 - Central League Division 2

Stirling C v Stirling B
Martyn Roe Kyle Kirkpatrick Alex Scott Gordon Allcock Richard Warcup	1419 1418 1388 1284	½ - ½ 1 - 0 0 - 1 0 - 1 ½ - ½	1584 1574 1469 1455 1428	Dave Hewitt John Blake Tony Pitson Craig Manson Brad Duthie
		2 - 3

Thanks to Kyle for providing the game below, the board 2 game where Kyle had Black against John Blake.

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Blake, J–Kirkpatrick, K0–1Stirling C v Stirling BStirling CC25.09.2017

1.d4 c5 2.d5 e6 3.dxe6 fxe6 4.e4 f6 5.c3 d6 6.f3 e7 7.c4 xe4 8.b5+ d7 9.xd7+ xd7 10.xe4 c6 11.g3 0-0 12.0-0 xf3 13.gxf3 f6 14.e2 e8 15.e4 h5 16.e1 h4 17.h1 e5 18.d1 d8 19.c4 b5 20.e3 bxc4 21.xc4+ h8 22.e4 b8 23.xd6 b4 24.c2 e4 25.fxe4 xb2 26.xc5 g6+ 27.f1 xe4 28.d5 g4 29.c1 h3+ 30.g2 f5 31.d5 e5 32.e1 h3 33.g3 e4 34.xh3+ g8 35.e6+ h8 36.g3 c3+ 0–1

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18 September 2017 - Central League Division 1

Badgers Brook A v Stirling A
Kenny McGeoch   Mark Cooke   David McConnell   Fabio Biancalana   Stuart Ward	2054   2012   1863   1782   1763	1 - 0   ½ - ½   1 - 0   ½ - ½   1 - 0	1767   1704   1663   1584   1418	Jim Shemilt   Steve Smith   Bill Cook   Dave Hewitt   Kyle Kirkpatrick
		4 - 1

Thanks to Dave for providing the game below, his board 4 clash with White against Fabio Biancalana.

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Hewitt, D–Biancalana, F½–½Badgers Brook A v Stirling ABadgers Brook CC18.09.2017

1.d4 f6 2.g5 e6 3.e4 h6 4.xf6 xf6 5.f3 b6 6.bd2 b7 7.d3 d6 8.c3 g5 9.h3 g7 10.c2 d7 11.h2 c5 12.g4 e7 13.f3 a6 14.e2 0-0 15.0-0 cxd4 16.xd4 e5 17.c2 g6 18.g3 ac8 19.ae1 c5 20.b3 c7 21.d4 c5 22.b3 ½–½

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Dave writes:- The computer doesn't reckon there was ever much in it - I felt I had a slight edge but probably Fabio thought he had one too! I offered the draw after the repetition and Fabio accepted immediately. I'm wanting to keep my N on d4 if possible, to prevent any e5 ideas due to Nf5, but I didn't want his Rc5 becoming too active. Ideally I was wanting to push the f-pawn and create attacking chances on the K-side, and there were also ideas along the b3-g8 diagonal, but it felt risky and Fabio's a strong opponent so in the end I was happy to settle for the draw. Later in the season with a few more games under my belt I might well have carried on to see where it might lead.

Grading List 2017/18

Name	Grade	Allegro Grade
Paul Prescott   Shivan Murdochy   Neil Irving   Jim Shemilt   Steve Smith   Bill Cook   Graham Anderson   Dave Hewitt   John Blake   Robert Leckie   Tony Pitson   Craig Manson   Brad Duthie   Martyn Roe   Kyle Kirkpatrick   Alex Scott   Tom Wallace   Jonathan Blake   Gordon Allcock   Robert Togneri   Mick Bloor   Michael Cook   David Little   Sam Cook   Craig Thomson   Tom McKay   James Warwick   Alex Brimlow   Idris Benwell	1975   1916   1879   1767   1704   1663   1622   1584   1574   1497   1469   1455   1428   1419   1418   1388   1386   1289   1284   1273   1107   1102   1008   867   781   756   594   527   510	1975   1916   1750   1694   1586   1601   1595   1558   1574   1472   1496   1233   1316   1442   1416   1388   1313   1289   1368   1200   1192   1102   1299   841   723   756   1003   377   394