Game

Thanks to Bill Cook for providing the game below. This was played a couple of weeks ago, in the B team match against Grangemouth A. Apologies to Bill for taking so long to post it.

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Kuznetzov, R1161–Cook, B14920–1E70Stirling B v Grangemouth AStirling CC09.10.2023

1.d4 f6 2.c4 g6 3.c3 g7 4.e4 d6 5.d3 0-0 6.ge2 bd7 7.0-0 e5 8.dxe5 dxe5 9.f4 exf4 10.xf4 c5 10...h5 11.c2 c6 12.d6 b6 12...e6 13.xf8 xf8 14.h3 c5+ 15.h1 d7 13.xf8 cxe4+ 13...xf8 14.d4 g4 15.h3 g7 16.d6 xe4+ 17.c5 xc5 18.h1 e3 14.c5 xc5 15.xc5 xc5+ 16.d4 e7 17.ad1 e6 18.d6 xd6 19.xd6 d5 20.xd5 cxd5 21.b3 e5 22.xd5 xd5 23.xd5 f8 24.xb7 xb2 25.f4 d4+ 26.h1 g7 27.g3 b8 28.d1 xb7 29.xd4 b1+ 30.g2 b2+ 31.h3 xa2 32.d5 a5 33.c3 a3 34.a4 h5 35.g2 g5 36.h4 f6 37.c5 a2+ 38.f3 a3+ 39.d3 a4 40.hxg5 fxg5 41.d6 b3 42.e4 a3 43.a6 h4 44.gxh4 gxh4 45.f2 h3 46.g4 b4+ 47.f3 xg4 48.xg4 h2 49.a7+ f6 50.h7 a2 51.xh2 a1 52.f2+ e5 53.e2+ d5 54.d2+ c4 55.f3 c3+ 56.e2 h3 57.c2+ b3 58.d2 h2+ 59.d3 xc2+ 0–1

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Bill writes: I was a whole rook down after 15 moves with no compensation, but gradually clawed my way back, first by just being only a piece down, (22...Bxd5) and then after 31...Rxa2, had a passed pawn to play with. The rook sacrifice 47....Rxg4 ensured the a pawn finally queened.

25-10-23 Allegro League Grangemouth Tigers v Stirling Bruce

Grangemouth Tigers 5½-10½ Stirling Bruce
Round 1
Alan Petrie	0 - 1	Isaac Browning
John McLay	1 - 0	Bill Cook
Harry Leishman	0 - 1	Kenny MacPherson
Zya Dolan	0 - 1	Dave Hewitt
Round 2
Alan Petrie	1 - 0	Bill Cook
John McLay	1 - 0	Kenny MacPherson
Harry Leishman	0 - 1	Dave Hewitt
Zya Dolan	0 - 1	Isaac Browning
Round 3
Alan Petrie	0 - 1	Kenny MacPherson
John McLay	1 - 0	Dave Hewitt
Harry Leishman	0 - 1	Isaac Browning
Euan Binnie	0 - 1	Bill Cook
Round 4
Alan Petrie	1 - 0	Dave Hewitt
John McLay	½ - ½	Isaac Browning
Harry Leishman	0 - 1	Bill Cook
Euan Binnie	0 - 1	Kenny MacPherson

25-10-23 Allegro League Grangemouth Lions v Stirling Wallace

Grangemouth Lions 7-9 Stirling Wallace
Round 1
Ian Mason	1 - 0	Graham Anderson
Bill Gray	0 - 1	Tom Wallace
Thomas Frew	0 - 1	William Feather
John Smith	0 - 1	Harry Feather
Round 2
Ian Mason	0 - 1	Harry Feather
Bill Gray	½ - ½	Graham Anderson
Thomas Frew	0 - 1	Tom Wallace
John Smith	1 - 0	Cameron Anderson
Round 3
Ian Mason	1 - 0	William Feather
Bill Gray	½ - ½	Harry Feather
Thomas Frew	0 - 1	Cameron Anderson
John Smith	1 - 0	Tom Wallace
Round 4
Ian Mason	0 - 1	Tom Wallace
Bill Gray	1 - 0	Cameron Anderson
Thomas Frew	0 - 1	Harry Feather
John Smith	1 - 0	Graham Anderson

23-10-23 Stirling C v Stirling D

Stirling C		v		Stirling D
Dave Hewitt Kenny MacPherson Bill Cook Sandy Carmichael Cameron Anderson	1513 1440 1492 1242	½ - ½ 1 - 0 1 - 0 0 - 1 0 - 1	1342 1335   1133 1071	Harry Feather Tom Wallace Tom Nimmo David Fowler Callum Richardson
		2½ - 2½

22-10-23 Scottish National Chess League

The Forth Valley A team had their first match postponed (due to their opponent's difficulties travelling from the North East after the recent storm), and lost the afternoon match 4½-½ to Dundee City A. Full scorecard here.

Forth Valley B drew 2½-2½ with Oban in the morning (scorecard here), and lost 3-2 to Dundee City B in the afternoon (scorecard here).

Forth Valley C beat Troon 4-1 in the morning (scorecard here), and drew 2½-2½ with Phones in the afternoon (scorecard here).

Thanks to Tom for the game below, where he had White against Aditya Srivastava.

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Wallace, T–Srivastava, A1–0SNCLDunfermline23.10.2023

1.e4 d6 2.d4 f6 3.c3 g6 4.g5 g7 5.h3 0-0 6.f3 c6 7.d2 b5 8.a3 bd7 9.h6 a5 10.xg7 xg7 11.d3 b8 12.0-0 b7 13.ae1 b4 14.axb4 axb4 15.d1 a5 16.b3 e5 17.b2 exd4 18.c4 c5 19.f4 d5 20.d6 dxe4 21.xe4 d5 22.c4 h5 23.xd4 xe4 24.xe4 c5 25.e7 h8 26.xd7 cxd4 27.f6+ g8 28.xf7+ Black resigns 1–0

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16-10-23 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	Steve Smith	1638	0 W 8	1 B 12	2 W 2	2½ B 4	2½ W 6	=7
2	Graham Anderson	1594	1 B 9	1½ W 5	1½ B 1	2½ W 13	3½ B 3	=3
3	Kenny MacPherson	1546	1 W 10	2 B 4	3 W 8	4 B 6	4 W 2	=1
4	Bill Cook	1546	1 B 11	1 W 3	2 B 5	2½ W 1	2½ B 7	=7
5	Dave Hewitt	1544	1 W 12	1½ B 2	1½ W 4	2½ B 10	2½ W 8	=7
6	David McAlister	1484	½ B 13	1½ W 7	2½ B 9	2½ W 3	3½ W 1	=3
7	Sandy Carmichael	1410	1 W 14	1 B 6	2 W 10	2 B 8	3 W 4	=5
8	Gordon Allcock	1362	1 B 1	2 W 13	2 B 3	3 W 7	4 B 5	=1
9	Harry Feather	1260	0 W 2	1 B 14	1 W 6	2 B 11	3 B 13	=5
10	Mick Bloor	1103	0 B 3	1 W 11	1 B 7	1 W 5	2 B 14	=10
11	Stewart Cairns	1058	0 W 4	0 B 10	1 W 14	1 W 9	1 B 12	13
12	Thomas Forsyth	858	0 B 5	0 W 1	0 B 13	1 W 14	2 W 11	=10
13	Cameron Anderson	680	½ W 6	½ B 8	1½ W 12	1½ B 2	1½ W 9	12
14	Jonathan Pont		0 B 7	0 W 9	0 B 11	0 B 12	0 W 10	14

Club Secretary Bill presents the trophy to Gordon (l) and Kenny (r). This is Kenny's first win in this tournament, and Gordon's first since 2006. Well done both!

10-10-23 Dunfermline B v Stirling C

Dunfermline B		v		Stirling C
Douglas Rew Anthony Milligan Dimitris Giannakopoulos Calum Newton Mark McLintock	1403 1345 1330   1229	1 - 0 ½ - ½ 0 - 1 1 - 0 1 - 0	1513 1440 1492 1476 1335	Dave Hewitt Kenny MacPherson Bill Cook David McAlister Tom Wallace
		3½ - 1½

09-10-2023 Stirling D v Badgers Brook B

Stirling D		v		Badgers Brook B
Harry Feather Tom Wallace Tom Nimmo Sandy Carmichael Mick Bloor	1342 1335   1242 1117	1 - 0 1 - 0 0 - 1 1 - 0 1 - 0	1263 988   962 963	Gordon Walker Douglas Scott David Lawrence Peter Woollven David Mabon
		4 - 1

Thanks to Tom for the game below, where he had White against Douglas Scott.

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Wallace, T–Scott, D1–0Stirling D v Badgers Brook BStirling CC09.10.2023

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 f5 4.f3 h6 5.d3 xd3 6.xd3 e6 7.0-0 a6 8.a3 c5 9.c4 cxd4 10.xd4 c5 11.e3 e7 12.xe6 fxe6 13.xc5 bc6 14.e1 0-0 15.c3 b6 16.xe7 xe7 17.cxd5 fd8 18.d6 f7 19.e2 e7 20.ae1 g6 21.g3 d7 22.e4 f8 23.c6 b8 24.a4 b5 25.c5 a7 26.d7 e7 27.d6 d8 28.d1 28 Nxe6 d5 29.xe6 axd7 30.xf7+ xf7 31.ed2 df8 32.xd5 xf2 33.d8 xd8 34.xd8+ f8 35.xf8+ xf8 36.xa6 f7 37.c7 e7 38.xb5 e6 39.f2 xe5 40.e3 d5 41.d3 c5 42.c3 g5 43.e4+ b5 44.h4 a4 45.c2 g4 46.f6 h5 47.xh5 Black resigns 1–0

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09-10-23 Stirling B v Grangemouth A

Stirling B		v		Grangemouth A
Matthew Demmon Sean Flanagan Brad Duthie Nathanael Loch Bill Cook	1696 1557 1520 1504 1492	0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 1 1 - 0	1949 1948 1776 1572 1161	Alan Bell John McLay David Wallace Alan Petrie Roman Kuznetsov
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02-10-23 Badgers Brook A v Stirling A

Badgers Brook A		v		Stirling A
Kenny McGeoch Stuart Ward Jonathan Rowney David Lawrence Douglas Scott	2039 1774 1591   988	0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 1	2142 1988 1755 1632 1513	Shubham Lakudkar Isaac Browning William Spiers Steve Smith Dave Hewitt
		0 - 5

02-10-23 Stirling E v Stirling D

Stirling E		v		Stirling D
Gordon Allcock Harley Lang Thomas Forsyth Euan Tortolano Stewart Cairns	1240 1096 947 792	1 - 0 0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 1	1342 1335 1117 1071	Tom Nimmo Harry Feather Tom Wallace Mick Bloor Callum Richardson
		1 - 4