29-11-2022 Dunfermline A v Stirling A

Dunfermline A		v		Stirling A
Ian Robertson Fred Ossowski Gordon Greig Calum Smith Des Allan	2079 1561 1560 1626	0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 1 1 - 0 0 - 1	1934 1722 1621 1562 1523	Isaac Browning William Spiers Steve Smith Dave Hewitt Brad Duthie
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28-11-2022 Stirling E v Grangemouth C

Stirling E		v		Grangemouth C
Gordon Allcock Callum Richardson Mick Bloor Harley Lang Euan Tortolano	1260 1097 1079 1082	½ - ½ ½ - ½ 0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 1	1252 1181 1022	Crawford Welsh David Fowler Scott Dickson Roman Kuznetsov Nicholas Kitaev
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28-11-2022 Stirling Castle v Stirling Douglas

Stirling Castle 8-8 Stirling Douglas
Round 1
Kris Dimitrov	0 - 1	Brad Duthie
Comnhall Ferguson	0 - 1	Sandy Carmichael
Stewart Cairns	1 - 0	Robbie McDermott
Thomas Forsyth	1 - 0	Cameron Deer
Round 2
Kris Dimitrov	1 - 0	Cameron Deer
Comnhall Ferguson	0 - 1	Brad Duthie
Stewart Cairns	0 - 1	Sandy Carmichael
Thomas Forsyth	0 - 1	Robbie McDermott
Round 3
Kris Dimitrov	1 - 0	Robbie McDermott
Comnhall Ferguson	1 - 0	Cameron Deer
Stewart Cairns	0 - 1	Brad Duthie
Thomas Forsyth	0 - 1	Sandy Carmichael
Round 4
Kris Dimitrov	1 - 0	Sandy Carmichael
Comnhall Ferguson	1 - 0	Robbie McDermott
Stewart Cairns	1 - 0	Cameron Deer
Thomas Forsyth	0 - 1	Brad Duthie

23-11-2022 Grangemouth Tigers v Stirling Wallace

Grangemouth Tigers 11½-4½ Stirling Wallace
Round 1
John McLay	1 - 0	William Spiers
Alan Bell	1 - 0	Nathanael Loch
Crawford Welsh	1 - 0	Tom Wallace
Harry Leishman	1d - 0d
Round 2
John McLay	1d - 0d
Alan Bell	1 - 0	William Spiers
Crawford Welsh	0 - 1	Nathanael Loch
Harry Leishman	½ - ½	Tom Wallace
Round 3
John McLay	1 - 0	Tom Wallace
Alan Bell	1d - 0d
Crawford Welsh	0 - 1	William Spiers
Harry Leishman	0 - 1	Nathanael Loch
Round 4
John McLay	1 - 0	Nathanael Loch
Alan Bell	1 - 0	Tom Wallace
Crawford Welsh	1d - 0d
Harry Leishman	0 - 1	William Spiers

21-11-2022 Robert Togneri Trophy

Time control: 15 minutes each for all moves

	Name	Grade	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Place
1	Isaac Browning	1853	1 W 12	1½ B 6	2½ W 8	3½ W 4	4 B 2	=1
2	William Spiers	1692	1 B 13	2 W 7	2 B 4	3 B 5	3½ W 1	=3
3	Graham Anderson	1655	½ W 14	1½ B 11	2 W 9	2 B 10	3 B 12	=6
4	Matthew Demmon	1660	1 B 15	2 W 10	3 W 2	3 B 1	4 W 6	=1
5	Steve Smith	1636	1 W 16	1½ B 9	2½ W 6	2½ B 2	3 W 14	=6
6	Harley Lang	1585	1 B 17	1½ W 1	1½ B 5	2½ W 12	2½ B 4	=11
7	Brad Duthie	1581	1 W 18	1 B 2	1½ W 14	2½ B 8	3½ W 10	=3
8	Sean Flanagan	1579	½ B 19	1½ W 21	1½ B 1	1½ W 7	2½ B 20	=11
9	Dave Hewitt	1512	1 *	1½ W 5	2 B 3	2½ B 14	3½ W 18	=3
10	Bill Cook	1507	1 W 20	1 B 4	2 B 15	3 W 3	3 B 7	=6
11	Nathanael Loch	1447	0 B 21	0 W 3	1 B 17	2 W 20	3 B 13	=6
12	Kenny MacPherson	1399	0 B 1	1 W 17	2 B 20	2 B 6	2 W 3	=14
13	Tom Wallace	1358	0 W 2	½ B 18	½ W 21	1½ B 16	1½ W 11	=17
14	Sandy Carmichael	1349	½ B 3	1½ W 19	2 B 7	2½ W 9	3 B 5	=6
15	Mick Bloor	1114	0 W 4	1 B 16	1 W 10	1 B 18	2 W 17	=14
16	Robbie McDermott	u/g	0 B 5	0 W 15	1 Bye	1 W 13	1 B 19	=19
17	Callum Richardson	759	0 W 6	0 B 12	0 W 11	1 W 19	1 B 15	=19
18	Thomas Forsyth	750	0 B 7	½ W 13	1½ B 19	2½ W 15	2½ B 9	=11
19	Euan Tortolano	611	½ W 8	½ B 14	½ W 18	½ B 17	1½ W 16	=17
20	Cameron Deer	u/g	0 B 10	1 Bye	1 W 12	1 B 11	1 W 8	=19
21	Comhnall Ferguson	u/g	1 W 11	1 B 8	2 B 13	2 -	2 -	=14

Matthew (left) and Isaac share the Robert Togneri Trophy.

14-11-2022 Stirling A v Grangemouth B

Stirling A		v		Grangemouth B
Shubham Lakudkar William Spiers Graham Anderson Steve Smith Richard Warcup	2040 1722 1670 1621 1519	1 - 0 1 - 0 ½ - ½ 1 - 0 1 - 0	1711 1626 1459 1543 1022	Alan Petrie Ian Mason Alasdair Sandham Bill Gray Scott Dickson
		4½ - ½

Thanks to Steve and William for the games below.

ChessBase

Smith, S–Gray, B1–0Stirling A v Grangemouth BStirling CC14.11.2022

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.c3 b4 4.e5 e7 5.g4 c5 6.f3 bc6 7.d3 g6 8.0-0 cxd4 9.b5 c5 10.a3 f5 11.e1 a6 12.g5 b6 13.f6 g8 14.d6+ xd6 15.exd6 15 b4 xd6 16.g5 d7 17.b4 c7 18.h4 h5 19.c4 dxc4 20.xc4 d7 21.xd4 b8 22.f3 a7 23.ed1 c7 24.ab1 ac8 25.b5 axb5 26.xb5 ge8 27.xc6 xc6 28.d4+ a8 29.xd6 a5 30.d4 d5 31.b4 c7 32.a4+ b8 33.b5 c5 34.e5+ Black resigns. 34 ... Rc7 35 Nxc7 Qxc7 36 Qxe8+ Ka7 37 Bxc7 Bb3 38 Rxb3 b5 39 Qxb5 h4 40 Qa4# 1–0

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Mason, I–Spiers, W0–1Stirling A v Grangemouth BStirling CC14.11.2022

1.d4 g6 2.c4 g7 3.c3 d6 4.e4 e5 5.d5 e7 6.e3 0-0 7.d2 f5 8.f3 f4 9.f2 g5 10.g4 h5 11.h3 d7 12.ge2 f6 13.c1 c5 14.b3 b6 15.d3 a6 16.e2 hxg4 17.hxg4 d7 18.d2 f7 19.0-0-0 g6 20.dg1 h8 21.e1 c7 22.xh8 xh8 23.h1 b8 24.e2 b5 25.xh8 xh8 26.f1 b4 27.cb1 g6 28.h1 c8 29.b3 d8 30.1d2 c7 31.b1 a5 32.c1 c8 33.d3 a4 34.e1 g8 35.g2 f8 36.d1 g7 37.h1 e7 38.c1 h8 39.xh8+ xh8 40.c2 f7 41.e1 h6 42.d3 hxg4 43.fxg4 xg4 44.xg4 xg4 45.xc5 dxc5 46.xe5 e2 47.d3 d6 48.f2 g4 49.b3 a3 White resigns 0–1

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14-11-2022 Badgers Brook A v Stirling B

Badgers Brook A		v		Stirling B
Andrew Newton Kenny McGeoch Suzy Cooke Mark Cooke Jonathan Rowney	2007 1998 1969 1887 1622	1 - 0 1 - 0 1 - 0 1 - 0 ½ - ½	1569 1523 1513 1562 1487	Leyla Kim Brad Duthie Nathanael Loch Dave Hewitt Sean Flanagan
		4½ - ½

Thanks to Dave for this game, where he had White against Mark Cooke.

ChessBase

Hewitt, D–Cooke, MBadgers Brook A v Stirling BBadgers Brook CC14.11.2022

1.d4 f6 2.f3 g6 3.f4 A48 London System g7 4.e3 d6 5.d3 0-0 6.0-0 bd7 7.bd2 h5 8.g3 xg3 9.hxg3 e5 10.c3 e7 11.e4 f6 12.d5 g4 13.h4 f5 14.e2 f6 15.exf5 gxf5 16.c2 xd5 17.c4 c6 18.xd5+ cxd5 19.ae1 f4 20.d3 e6 21.c4 e4 22.e2 e3 23.cxd5 xd5 24.d3 exf2+ 25.xf2 fxg3+ 26.g1 xh4 27.xf8+ xf8 28.xd5+ h8 29.f3 b4 30.e7 xb2 31.xd6 f2+ 32.h1 xf3 33.e8+ f8 34.xf8+ xf8 35.xg3 d4 36.h4 f1+ 37.h2 g1+ 38.h3 h1+

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Quite similar to my recent loss to Graham Hamilton in the Grangemouth A match, although at least here I did have one brief opportunity to break out from the bind: if I play exf5 a move earlier than I actually did, on move 14 rather than 15, his Ng4 is hanging if he ends up with a R on f5. I only half saw this at best and was worried about discovered attacks generally if my Q ended up out in the open, but the computer likes it and clearly I should have gone for this - I might well have spotted it properly had I just played 14 exf5 anyway, as I almost did - I had quite a long think before opting for 14 Be2.

I deliberately gave up the d5 pawn a couple of moves later to try and get some activity and space, but it didn't come to anything and Mark played the latter half of the game very well. I missed until it was too late that his 25 ...fxg3+ was double check, and I almost resigned after 26 ...Qxh4 thinking I was getting mated on the spot, before realising that I could keep things going, for a while at least, with Nf3. But 29 ...Qb4 (played after quite a long think on his part) is a strong move and I was really just delaying the inevitable. I was skirmishing reasonably well at the end, and without much time on the clock - probably a benefit of the decent online form - but it wasn't good enough and I was well beaten.

31-10-2022 Stirling D v Badgers Brook B

Stirling D		v		Badgers Brook B
Harry Feather Kris Dimitrov Sandy Carmichael Gordon Allcock Callum Richardson	1327 1331 1283 1260 1097	1 - 0 1 - 0 ½ - ½ 1 - 0 0 - 1	1292 1114 894	Gordon Walker Colin Matthews Peter Woollven Mark Khordi-Moodi David Mahon
		3½ - 1½

31-10-2022 Stirling B v Grangemouth A

Stirling B		v		Grangemouth A
Richard Warcup John Blake Dave Hewitt Nathanael Loch Sean Flanagan	1519 1568 1562 1533 1487	1d - 0d 0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 1	2124 2066 1979 1953 1833	Uby Archibong John McLay Graham Hamilton Alan Bell Dougie Will
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