| Grangemouth C | v | Stirling E | ||
| David Fowler Scott Dickson Roman Kuznetsov Ryan Herron Michael Campbell |
1181 1022 |
0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 1 1 - 0 1 - 0 |
1097 1082 1079 |
Callum Richardson Harley Lang Mick Bloor Stewart Cairns Cameron Anderson |
| 2 - 3 |
Friday, 28 April 2023
26-04-2023 Grangemouth C v Stirling E
24-04-2023 Stirling A v Dunfermline
| Stirling A | v | Dunfermline | ||
| Isaac Browning William Spiers Matthew Demmon Steve Smith Sean Flanagan |
1934 1722 1660 1621 1487 |
0 - 1 1 - 0 ½ - ½ ½ - ½ 1 - 0 |
2079 1665 1560 1626 1565 |
Ian Robertson Iain Sneddon Gordon Greig Calum Smith Gonzalo Ferero |
| 3 - 2 |
24-04-2023 David Brodie Trophy
The David Brodie Trophy is a juniors/beginners allegro. This is the third time this trophy has been played for: Alex won it back in 2019, it was not awarded in 2020 or 2021 due to the pandemic, and in 2022 it was shared between Cameron A, Alex, and Thomas. This year saw the highest number of players compete for this trophy: 18. Well done to everyone who played, we are very proud of all of you! Thanks to Grishma for the post 3rd round crisps, and thanks to Jim for the prizes!
Time control: 15 minutes each for all moves
| Name | Rd 1 | Rd 2 | Rd 3 | Rd 4 | Rd 5 | |||
| 1 | Callum R | 1 W 9 | 2 B 8 | 2 W 2 | 2 B 5 | 3 W 7 | ||
| 2 | Thomas | 1 B 10 | 2 W 12 | 3 B 1 | 3½ W 6 | 4½ B 3 | ||
| 3 | Cameron A | 1W 11 | 2W 5 | 2½ B 6 | 3½ B 8 | 3½ W 2 | ||
| 4 | Samay | 0 B 12 | 0 W 16 | ½ B 18 | 1½ W 17 | 1½ W 11 | ||
| 5 | Ben | 1 W 13 | 1 B 3 | 2 W 9 | 3 W 1 | 4 B 6 | ||
| 6 | Kai | 1 B 14 | 2 W 7 | 2½ W 3 | 3 B 2 | 3 W 5 | ||
| 7 | Josh | 1 W 15 | 1 B 6 | 2 B 16 | 2 W 12 | 2 B 1 | ||
| 8 | Victor | 1 B 16 | 1 W 1 | 2 B 11 | 2 W 3 | 2 B 9 | ||
| 9 | Calum T | 0 B 1 | 1 W 10 | 1 B 5 | 2 B 13 | 3 W 8 | ||
| 10 | William | 0 W 2 | 0 B 9 | 1 B 14 | 2 W 16 | 2 B 12 | ||
| 11 | Jerry | 0 B 3 | 1 B 15 | 1 W 8 | 2 W 14 | 3 B 4 | ||
| 12 | Elsa | 1 W 4 | 1 B 2 | 2 W 13 | 3 B 7 | 4 W 10 | ||
| 13 | Aleks | 0 B 5 | 1 W 14 | 1 B 12 | 1 W 9 | 2 B 15 | ||
| 14 | Sonny | 0 W 6 | 0 B 13 | 0 W 10 | 0 B 11 | 1 W 17 | ||
| 15 | George | 0 B 7 | 0 W 11 | 1 W 17 | 2 B 18 | 2 W 13 | ||
| 16 | Alexander | 0 W 8 | 1 B 4 | 1 W 7 | 1 B 10 | 2 W 18 | ||
| 17 | JC | ½ * | ½ W 18 | ½ B 15 | ½ B 4 | ½ W 14 | ||
| 18 | Sarah | ½ * | 1½ B 17 | 2 W 4 | 2 W 15 | 2 B 16 | ||
With two clear leaders on 3½ after round 4, the competition was decided on a shoot-out match between Cameron A and Thomas. Congratulations to Thomas on his victory. Thanks to Marissa and Nadine, David's daughters, and their daughters for coming along to present the trophy.
But most of all my thanks go to the participants; thanks for a great night of chess!
Sunday, 23 April 2023
18-04-2023 Dunfermline v Stirling Douglas
| Dunfermline 4-5 Stirling Douglas | ||
| Round 1 | ||
| Ian Robertson | 1 - 0 | Brad Duthie |
| Gordon Greig | 1 - 0 | Richard Warcup |
| Dimitis Giannakopoulos | 0 - 1 | Sandy Carmichael |
| Round 2 | ||
| Ian Robertson | 1 - 0 | Sandy Carmichael |
| Gordon Greig | 0 - 1 | Brad Duthie |
| Dimitis Giannakopoulos | 0 - 1 | Richard Warcup |
| Round 3 | ||
| Ian Robertson | 1 - 0 | Richard Warcup |
| Gordon Greig | 0 - 1 | Sandy Carmichael |
| Dimitis Giannakopoulos | 0 - 1 | Brad Duthie |
Ian Robertson writes:- Unusual score for an allegro but Stirling could only raise 3 players and since a Dunfermline player who was originally due to play was held up at work the other Dunfermline players opted not to replace him and instead play a 3 v 3 match with double defaults on board 4. A close match with it all going down to the final game to finish between Gordon and Sandy. Gordon was down to a few seconds but had a heavy material advantage and forced mate. However that was missed and though Sandy only had 2 pawns left victory on time was his. Thanks to Stirling for the visit and for putting up with the background noise from what was a packed club room.
17-04-2023 Badgers Brook B v Stirling D
| Badgers Brook B | v | Stirling D | ||
| Mark Brown Colin Matthews Antonia La Gamma Peter Woollven David Mabon |
1440 1114 894 |
0 - 1 1 - 0 0 - 1 0 - 1 1 - 0 |
1331 1327 1283 1079 |
Kris Dimitrov Harry Feather Sandy Carmichael Mick Bloor Adam Fenwick |
| 2 - 3 |
17-04-2023 Stirling Castle v Grangemouth Lions
| Stirling Castle 7½-8½ Grangemouth Lions | ||
| Round 1 | ||
| Sam Cook | ½ - ½ | Dougie Will |
| Harley Lang | 0 - 1 | Ian Mason |
| Gordon Allcock | 0 - 1 | Sean Gray |
| Stewart Cairns | 1 - 0 | Harley Allan |
| Round 2 | ||
| Sam Cook | 1 - 0 | Harley Allan |
| Harley Lang | 0 - 1 | Dougie Will |
| Gordon Allcock | 0 - 1 | Ian Mason |
| Stewart Cairns | 0 - 1 | Sean Gray |
| Round 3 | ||
| Sam Cook | 1 - 0 | Sean Gray |
| Harley Lang | 1 - 0 | Harley Allan |
| Gordon Allcock | 0 - 1 | Dougie Will |
| Stewart Cairns | 0 - 1 | Ian Mason |
| Round 4 | ||
| Sam Cook | 1 - 0 | Ian Mason |
| Harley Lang | 1 - 0 | Sean Gray |
| Gordon Allcock | 1 - 0 | Harley Allan |
| Stewart Cairns | 0 - 1 | Dougie Will |
17-04-2023 Stirling Bruce v Grangemouth Tigers
| Stirling Bruce 11-5 Grangemouth Tigers | ||
| Round 1 | ||
| Shubham Lakudkar | 1 - 0 | John McLay |
| Isaac Browning | ½ - ½ | Alan Bell |
| Dave Hewitt | 1 - 0 | Ryan Herron |
| Kenny MacPherson | 1 - 0 | Thomas Frew |
| Round 2 | ||
| Shubham Lakudkar | ½ - ½ | Alan Bell |
| Isaac Browning | 1 - 0 | Ryan Herron |
| Dave Hewitt | 1 - 0 | Thomas Frew |
| Kenny MacPherson | 0 - 1 | Alan Bell |
| Round 3 | ||
| Shubham Lakudkar | 1 - 0 | Ryan Herron |
| Isaac Browning | 1 - 0 | Thomas Frew |
| Dave Hewitt | 0 - 1 | John McLay |
| Kenny MacPherson | 0 - 1 | Alan Bell |
| Round 4 | ||
| Shubham Lakudkar | 1 - 0 | Thomas Frew |
| Isaac Browning | 1 - 0 | John McLay |
| Dave Hewitt | 0 - 1 | Alan Bell |
| Kenny MacPherson | 1 - 0 | Ryan Herron |
Stirling Bruce has now played all six of their matches in this Allegro League, and has won them all, thus takes the title. Congratulations, and well done to all who played!
Sunday, 16 April 2023
12-04-2023 Grangemouth B v Stirling A
| Grangemouth B | v | Stirling A | ||
| David Wallace Alan Petrie Ian Mason Scott Dickson Ryan Herron |
1727 1711 1626 1022 |
0 - 1 0 - 1 ½ - ½ 0 - 1 0 - 1 |
2040 1722 1670 1621 1562 |
Shubham Lakudkar William Spiers Graham Anderson Steve Smith Dave Hewitt |
| ½ - 4½ |
Congratulations to the A team players - this result secures the league title for Stirling for the first time since 2005/6. Special mention to Steve, who has captained the team throughout this time. Thanks to the team for providing the games below.
Wallace, D–Lakudkar, S0–1Grangemouth B v Stirling AGrangemouth CC12.04.2023
1.d4 f6 2.c4 g6 3.c3 d5 4.cxd5 xd5 5.e4 xc3 6.bxc3 g7 7.a4+ c6 8.f3 0-0 9.e3 c5 10.e2 b6 11.0-0 c7 12.ac1 b7 13.d5 d7 14.c4 d6 15.fd1 h6 16.d2 e5 17.g4 a6 18.c2 ad8 19.f1 c8 20.g3 f6 21.h3 e8 22.d3 c7 23.b1 d7 24.b2 d6 25.db1 b8 26.d2 h7 27.b3 b5 28.cxb5 axb5 29.c2 fc8 30.c3 a5 31.d1 b4 32.cc1 c4 33.c2 a3 34.f1 c3 35.b3 a5 36.a1 xe4 37.a3 c5 38.xc5 xc5 39.axb4 xb4 40.a3 f8 41.e3 xg4+
White resigns.
0–1Petrie, A–Spiers, W0–1Grangemouth B v Stirling AGrangemouth CC12.04.2023
1.e4 c5 2.f3 c6 3.e2 g6 4.c3 g7 5.d4 cxd4 6.cxd4 d6 7.c3 f6 8.h3 0-0 9.e3 e5 10.0-0 exd4 11.xd4 e8 12.db5 xe4 13.xe4 xe4 14.xd6 e7 15.c5 e6 16.f3 d7 17.d2 c7 18.ad1 ad8 19.xc6 xc6 20.e3 b6 21.a3 d5 22.c1 a8 23.f3 xd6 24.xd6 xd6 25.e7 e6 26.c7 e5 27.c8+ xc8 28.xc8+ g7 29.b3 g3 30.d1 e2 31.d8 e6 32.8d2 e5 33.f1 c8 34.e2
White resigns because of 34 ... Ba6.
0–1Smith, S–Dickson, S1–0Grangemouth B v Stirling AGrangemouth CC12.04.2023
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.c3 f6 4.g5 e7 5.e5 fd7 6.xe7 xe7 7.f4 b6 8.f3 a6 9.xa6 xa6 10.e2 db8
The idea of exchanging off light square bishops is common in the French but the other N should have gone to b8.
11.0-0-0 c6 12.h4 c7 13.g4 d7 14.f5 b5 15.df1 a5 16.f6 d8 17.fxg7 g8 18.e3 e7 19.h6 0-0-0 20.g5 b7
Now White has a won position.
21.xf7 a8 22.d6+ b6 23.f7 d8 24.xh7 a4 25.hf1 b8 26.g6
Stopping the h pawn will cost Black material.
e8 27.h5 xg7 28.xg7 xg7 29.xg7 f8 30.f7 h7 31.b7+ a6 32.xb8 xb8 33.xh7
Black resigns.
1–0Hewitt, D–Herron, R1–0Grangemouth B v Stirling AGrangemouth CC12.04.2023
1.d4 f6 2.g5 d5 3.f3 c6 4.c3 f5 5.e3 bd7 6.d3 e4 7.xe4 xe4 8.f4 e6 9.bd2 xd2 10.xd2 h6 11.0-0 g5 12.g3 f6 13.c2 d6 14.ae1 c7 15.xd6 xd6 16.e5 c7 17.f4 g4 18.f5 d6 19.fxe6 xe6 20.f5 xf5 21.xf5 e4 22.xf7 0-0-0 23.f4 g5 24.xg4 dg8 25.f1 h5 26.xg5 e8 27.f7 ef8 28.gg7 xf7 29.xf7 f8 30.d6+ b8 31.xb7+ a8 32.h7 d8 33.f5 f8 34.xh5 b7 35.g4 b6 36.h7 b8 37.h4 c5 38.h6+ b5 39.dxc5 xc5 40.b3 a5 41.d4 c8 42.c6+
Black resigns. Instead, there was 42 a4 Rc7 43 Ra6 Rc6 44 Rxc6#
1–0And the only fly in the ointment...
Anderson, G–Mason, I½–½Grangemouth B v Stirling AGrangemouth CC12.04.2023
1.e4 e5 2.f3 c6 3.c4 c5 4.c3 f6 5.d3 0-0 6.b4 e7 7.g5 d6 8.bd2 a6 9.0-0 h6 10.h4 g4 11.b3 b5
11 ... Nxe4
12.xf6 bxc4 13.xc4 xf6 14.xc6 d7 15.d5 b5 16.b3 d7
16 ... Bxd3
17.ac1 e8 18.d4 c8 19.d5 e7 20.c4 d8 21.c5 f5 22.c6 e8 23.exf5 xf5 24.fe1 g5 25.xg5 xg5 26.e4 e7 27.d3 g6 28.g3 h7 29.a4 b8 30.c3 f4 31.f3 f7 32.d3
Draw agreed. White is well down on time here, with just under 4 minutes left. Stockfish agrees with the draw here, but recommended 32 Qd2 to maintain the +1 advantage.
½–½10-04-2023 Stirling B v Badgers Brook A
| Stirling B | v | Badgers Brook A | ||
| Nathanael Loch Sean Flanagan Bill Cook Dave Hewitt Sandy Carmichael |
1513 1487 1489 1562 1289 |
0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 1 1 - 0 ½ - ½ |
2007 1998 1666 1114 894 |
Andrew Newton Kenny McGeoch John Smith Colin Matthews Peter Woollven |
| 1½ - 3½ |
Saturday, 8 April 2023
03-04-2023 Central League Cup Stirling v Badgers Brook
| Stirling | v | Badgers Brook | ||
| Shubham Lakudkar Sam Coates William Spiers Steve Smith Dave Hewitt Nathanael Loch Sean Flanagan |
2040 1843 1722 1621 1562 1513 1487 |
1 - 0 0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 1 1 - 0 1 - 0 1 - 0 |
2007 1998 1841 1689 1666 1292 894 |
Andrew Newton Kenny McGeoch Andrew McHarg Steven McHarg John Smith Gordon Walker Peter Woollven |
| 4 - 3 |
Thanks to Dave for providing the game below, where he was Black against John Smith.
John Smith1666–Dave Hewitt15620–1C01Neil Giffen Cup, Stirling vs Badgers BrookStirling CC03.04.2023
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 exd5 4.d3 f6 5.h3 e7 6.f3 0-0 7.0-0 bd7 8.e1 c5 9.c3 e8 10.f4 cxd4 11.cxd4 b4 12.c3 xc3 13.bxc3 e4 14.c2 f5 15.c4 df6 16.ab1 b6 17.e5 b7 18.d2 c8 19.f1 dxc4 20.xc4+ d5 21.xd5+ xd5 22.b3 h8 23.f3 g5 24.b5 c3 25.e3 xe3 26.xe3 ec8 27.xc3 xc3 28.f4 g6 29.d5 c8 30.d7 f6 31.xa7 h5 32.f3 c1+ 33.h2 h6 34.a8+ h7 35.d5 f6 36.d8 g5 37.g3 d2 38.g2 c2 0–1Dave writes: I picked a good time to win my first game in a Stirling match in 11 attempts this season. Was lucky - was in proper trouble early on, then got back levellish before missing a win at move 26: I was getting short of time but thought there was something good, and rather than doubling Rs I should have played 26 ...Rc1+ followed by Nd2 and Nf1+, winning the Q. However I missed this, and John then played a whole series of good moves to be well on top again. I thought he probably shouldn't have grabbed the pawn with 31 Rxa7, but the computer likes this and he was winning all the way to move 37, when Qh8+ followed by the hard to spot 38 Ra3 wins. John's actual 37 g3 allows a forced mate for black - fortunate, as I was down inside my last minute for the final four or five moves, and clinging on.
27-03-2023 Stirling C v Stirling E
| Stirling C | v | Stirling E | ||
| Brad Duthie David McAlister Bill Cook Kenny MacPherson Sandy Carmichael |
1523 1523 1489 1418 1283 |
1d - 0d 0 - 1 0 - 1 1 - 0 1 - 0 |
1097 1082 1082 |
Callum Richardson Harley Lang Mick Bloor Euan Tortolano Adam Fenwick |
| 3 - 2 |
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