11 February 2015 - Central Allegro League

Grangemouth Tigers 7 - 9 Stirling Wallace
Round 1
Ian Mason	1 - 0	Robert Leckie
Bill Gray	½ - ½	Jim Shemilt
Ross Heenan	0 - 1	Steve Smith
	0d - 1d	David Brodie
Round 2
Ian Mason	½ - ½	Jim Shemilt
Bill Gray	1 - 0	Steve Smith
Ross Heenan	0 - 1	David Brodie
	0d - 1d	Robert Leckie
Round 3
Ian Mason	½ - ½	Steve Smith
Bill Gray	½ - ½	David Brodie
Ross Heenan	1 - 0	Robert Leckie
	0d - 1d	Jim Shemilt
Round 4
Ian Mason	½ - ½	David Brodie
Bill Gray	1 - 0	Robert Leckie
Ross Heenan	½ - ½	Jim Shemilt
	0d - 1d	Steve Smith

9 February 2015 - Central Allegro League

Stirling Bruce 9½ - 6½ Dunfermline Minnows
Round 1
Paul Prescott	0 - 1	Ian Robertson
John Blake	0 - 1	Kelechi Ohiaeri
Bill Cook	1 - 0	George Webb
Graham Anderson	1 - 0	Andy Forbes
Round 2
Paul Prescott	1 - 0	Andy Forbes
John Blake	0 - 1	Ian Robertson
Bill Cook	0 - 1	Kelechi Ohiaeri
Graham Anderson	1 - 0	George Webb
Round 3
Paul Prescott	1 - 0	George Webb
John Blake	1 - 0	Andy Forbes
Bill Cook	0 - 1	Ian Robertson
Graham Anderson	0 - 1	Kelechi Ohiaeri
Round 4
Paul Prescott	1 - 0	Kelechi Ohiaeri
John Blake	1 - 0	George Webb
Bill Cook	½ - ½	Andy Forbes
Graham Anderson	1 - 0	Ian Robertson

Stirling Bruce returned to winning ways with a victory in a very tight match over Dunfermline. The first three rounds all finished 2-2, but a tremendous fourth round saw Stirling emerge as victors. The fourth round was also notable for the first allegro victory from a Stirling player (yours truly) over Ian Robertson. Dave has looked at Ian's record against Stirling players since the Allegro league was started back in 2004, and that record is P 92 W 89 D 2 L 1. The game, as I remember it, is below.

Robertson - Anderson

2 February 2015 - Lindsay Cup

In a night of entertaining club games, Mick Bloor met John Blake in the Lindsay Cup. John declined the opportunity to claim the game after Mick's phone went off during the opening exchanges, saying that Mick's unparliamentary exclamation at the time made it worth it.

Bloor - Blake

28 January 2015 - Central League Division 1

Dunfermline A v Stirling A
Iain Robertson   Gavin Saxton   Fred Ossowski   Andy Forbes   Glynis Grant	2115   1732   1631   1581   1267	½ - ½   ½ - ½   ½ - ½   ½ - ½   0 - 1	1907   1787   1782   1584   1556	Shivan Murdochy   Jim Shemilt   Steve Smith   Robin Hayles   Bill Cook
		2 - 3

19 Jan 2015 - Central League Division 2

Stirling B v Stirling C
John Blake Bill Cook Dave Hewitt Martyn Roe Mick Bloor	1573 1556 1442 1440 1199	1 - 0 ½ - ½ 1 - 0 1 - 0 0 - 1	1416 1362 1262 1245 1236	Gordon Allcock Robert Leckie Craig Manson Robert Togneri David Brodie
		3½ - 1½

The game below is from board 1, where Gordon Allcock had White against John Blake.

Allcock - Blake

Robert Togneri

The text below is from a short speech I have on 22 December during the Keddie Cup, on behalf of the club.

Let me take you back to 1 April 1964. The Beatles were just about to get to number one in the hit parade with “Can’t buy me love”. The Ministry of Defence took over responsibility for Britain’s armed forces from the War Office, the Admiralty, and the Air Office. Most importantly, though, Mr Robert Togneri made his debut for Stirling Chess Club in a match against Dunfermline, with a draw against J Allan in a 4½ - ½ victory. Also in the team that night, on the board above Robert, was James Keddie – whose trophy we are playing for tonight. Another regular member of the Stirling team at that time was John Lennon – his concert duties perhaps prevented him from playing chess more regularly.

A lot has changed in the intervening years. The hit parade is now called the charts. Robert & Mhari had two sons John and Michael, and two grandsons James and Mark. Going to the Moon was still a dream in 1964, but now my phone has more computing power than the computers that took the Apollo missions to the Moon. My phone can also thrash me at chess, but I’ve still to download the "Take me to the moon" app.

For Robert to have been a member of this club for over 50 years is an example of dedication and loyalty that few others can emulate. On behalf of the club, I’d like to thank him for these years of service, and present a small token of gratitude. I’d also like to say that it’s been agreed that Robert should now be offered lifetime membership of the club. Finally, the club would like to introduce a new trophy for our biannual allegro tournament, to be named in your honour.

Games from the B team match

I've been a bit slow in posting these because of the festive period, these are two games from boards 1 and 3 of the recent Stirling B v Dunfermline B match. The first game is from board 1 where Black (Stuart) had White and Blake (John) had Black.

Black - Blake

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On board 3, Dave managed to get a draw, despite being materially and positionally down for much of the game.

Horne - Hewitt