| Badgers Brook v Stirling | ||||
| Kenny Aiston Robert McCord Derek Raffan Gordon Walker Dylan Gillies |
1442 1361 1251 1142 |
0 - 1 0 - 1 ½ - ½ 0 - 1 1 - 0 |
1486 1460 1458 1306 1301 |
Dave Hewitt Gordon Allcock Martyn Roe Craig Manson David Brodie |
| 1½ - 3½ | ||||
Congratulations to the Under 1500 team on winning this trophy for the seventh time in nine years!
Thanks to Dave Hewitt for providing the game and analysis below, where he had White against Kenny Aiston.
Hewitt - Aiston
Congratulations to Steve Smith and Tony Pitson, joint winners of the club allegro on Monday with 4½/5. Steve (left) and Tony (right) are seen above receiving the trophy from Robert Togneri (centre).
Time control: 15 minutes each for all moves
| Name | Grade | Rd 1 | Rd 2 | Rd 3 | Rd 4 | Rd 5 | Place | |
|
1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 |
Graham Anderson
Steve Smith Tony Pitson Dave Hewitt David Brodie Gordon Allcock Robert Togneri Mick Bloor James Warwick Sam Cook Michael Cook Zihan Kong |
1630
1600 1473 1448 1389 1371 1238 1215 1075 (488) u/g u/g |
1 W 7
1 B 8 1 W 9 1 B 10 0 W 11 1 B 12 0 B 1 0 W 2 0 B 3 0 W 4 1 B 5 0 W 6 |
2 B 4
2 W 6 2 B 11 1 W 1 0 B 9 1 B 2 1 W 10 0 B 12 1 W 5 0 B 7 1 W 3 1 W 8 |
2 W 2
3 B 1 3 W 4 1 B 3 1 bye 2 W 9 2 B 11 1 W 10 1 B 6 0 B 8 1 W 7 - |
2 B 6
3½ W 3 3½ B 2 2 W 5 1 B 4 3 W 1 2 W 8 2 B 7 1 W 11 1 Bye 2 B 9 - |
3 B 10
4½ B 11 4½ W 6 3 B 8 2 W 7 3 B 3 2 B 5 2 B 4 2 Bye 1 W 1 2 W 2 - |
=3
=1 =1 =3 =6 =3 =6 =6 =6 =11 =6 =11 |
Thanks to Yong for this photo of the first round.
The can of Diet Coke didn't get an opponent, and stormed off in the huff.
| Cumbernauld v Stirling | ||||
| Ronnie Wallace Derek MacAteer Steven Monaghan David Flaherty George Ford |
1455 1336 1181 1097 758 |
½ - ½ 0 - 1 ½ - ½ 0 - 1 0 - 1 |
1486 1460 1301 1219 1183 |
Dave Hewitt Gordon Allcock David Brodie Robert Togneri Mick Bloor |
| 1 - 4 | ||||
Thanks to Dave for the game below, where he had White against Ronnie Wallace.
Hewitt - Wallace
| Grangemouth B v Stirling C | ||||
| Bill Gray Crawford Welsh David Fowler Scott Dickson Scott McKenzie |
1460 1350 862 |
1 - 0 1 - 0 0 - 1 1 - 0 1 - 0 |
1301 1245 |
David Brodie Robert Togneri Michael Cook James Warwick Sam Cook |
| 4 - 1 | ||||
| Dunfermline B v Stirling B | ||||
| Stewart Brisbane Douglas Rew Calum Smith Bryan O'Rourke Peter Horne |
1530 1521 1529 1359 1357 |
0 - 1 ½ - ½ 1 - 0 0 - 1 1 - 0 |
1583 1562 1486 1460 1458 |
John Blake Tony Pitson Dave Hewitt Gordon Allcock Martyn Roe |
| 2½ - 2½ | ||||
Dave Hewitt writes:- Congraulations to Dunfermline B, who drew with Stirling B on Monday evening and thus won division 2 - the two teams are both on 16 match points but Dunfermline have one more game point (and still have a match to play, against Grangemouth B next week). It was a hard-fought match, in which Stirling went two-up courtesy of a fine win by Gordon against Bryan and then a win by the back-in-form John against Stewart.
The other boards weren't looking so good for Stirling, however - I'd dropped an exchange in the opening against Calum and was trying and failing to drum up counterplay, Tony had an edge against Douglas but it looked fairly drawish, while Martyn - making a rare appearance for Stirling - was a piece down but had strong central pawns against Peter.
Tony and Douglas eventually drew, and Martyn now seemed to be close to winning but had next to no time left - he was looking for perpetuals but nothing appeared and in due course his flag fell. That just left me trying to fight my lost cause, but Calum's technique was solid and he eventually reduced it to a trivial pawn ending with 90 seconds left, whereupon I gave up.
Thanks to John Blake for provding the game and analysis below, where John had White against Stewart Brisbane.
Blake - Brisbane
The final fixtures of the Allegro League were played on Monday night. Dunfermline Minnows met Grangemouth Tigers, in a match which would decide the destination of the trophy, and Stirling Wallace met Dunfermline Sharks. Wallace, with a team of Steve Smith, Jim Shemilt, Gordon Allcock and David Brodie defeated the Sharks 8½-7½ for their first victory of the season.
Minnows defeated Tigers 11-5, which sees Minnows claim the title by a half board point from Stirling Bruce. Congratulations to the Minnows! The final league table is below.
|
Played
|
Won
|
Drawn
|
Lost
|
Game Points
|
Match Points
|
|
|
Dunfermline Minnows
Stirling Bruce Grangemouth Tigers Stirling Wallace Dunfermline Sharks |
4
4 4 4 4 |
3
3 3 1 0 |
0
0 0 0 0 |
1
1 1 3 4 |
38
37½ 36 23½ 25 |
6
6 6 2 0 |
Knowing that Grangemouth would be at pretty much full strength, and missing our top board Shivan, it seemed before the game that Stirling's best hope of victory lay in hoping that the janny wouldn't turn up.
| Grangemouth v Stirling | ||||
|
Uby Archibong Alan Bell Graham Hamilton Dougie Will John Smith Ian Mason Bill Gray |
2224 1956 1944 1946 1737 1719 1460 |
0 - 1 ½ - ½ ½ - ½ 1 - 0 0 - 1 1 - 0 1 - 0 |
1778 1702 1671 1666 1583 1562 1486 |
Jim Shemilt Steve Smith Graham Anderson Bill Cook John Blake Tony Pitson Dave Hewitt |
| 4 - 3 | ||||
As it turned out, it was a very close match, and had it been a league match Stirling would have won. I think John finished first, winning against John Smith. This was followed by two wins for Grangemouth on the bottom two boards, putting the score at 2-1. Steve and I agreed draws at pretty much the same time, after which Bill lost to Dougie. This gave Grangemouth the victory, before all attention turned to the game on board 1. Jim got two passed pawns to the 7th and 6th, before Queening one, and, after checking that Jim had enough to mate him, Uby resigned. Grangemouth go on to play Badgers Brook in the final.
The game below is from board 3, where I had White against Graham Hamilton.
Anderson - Hamilton
The game blow is from board 5, where John Blake had White against John Smith.
Blake - Smith
