Lindsay Cup winner - Tony Pitson

Dave Hewitt writes:- The 2013-14 Lindsay Cup final was played on Wednesday afternoon, between Tony Pitson and Gordon Allcock, both of whom had won the fine old trophy once before. Tony won the toss and went on to win what was an interesting and well-fought game. He thus acquires not only the trophy itself but also one of the qualifying slots for the 2014-15 Richardson Cup.

Congratulations to Tony for a fine victory, and commiserations to Gordon for putting in a good effort only to end as runner-up. Thanks also to the other eight players who made this an enjoyable event.

The two players before the game...

...and Tony Pitson with the Lindsay Cup afterwards.

19 May 2014 - Club Allegro

Dave Hewitt writes: The penultimate night of the season saw the spring allegro being played - the 18th in the series - and 12 players took part. Congratulations to John and Neil who shared first place with 4/5 - both were unbeaten and they drew with each other (but not a grandmaster draw) in r5. It was Neil's first win - always good to see a new name on the roll of honour (there have now been 11 different winners or joint-winners) - and John's fifth, leaving him just one win behind Steve in overall terms.

Tony claimed the other place on the podium - an excellent result given that he started with a loss - and he won an interesting QvsRR game against Steve in r5 when a win for the latter would have seen him finish joint-first. It was good to see young James getting his first proper tournament outing - always a bit daunting, and even though the three games he played all ended in defeat it will have been good practice and will hopefully be just the start of a long competitive career.

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	Bill Cook   John Blake   Graham Anderson   Neil Irving   Tony Pitson   Steve Smith   Dave Hewitt   Robert Togneri   David Brodie   Mick Bloor   Craig Manson   James Warwick	1684   1657   1593   1588   1581   1575   1502   1278   1276   1130   1071   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	1 B 4   1½ W 6   2 B 11   2 W 1   ½ B 9   1½ B 2   0 W 10   1 B 12   ½ W 5   1 B 7   1 W 3   0 W 8	1 W 2   2½ B 1   2 W 4   3 B 3   1½ W 10   2½ W 11   1 W 12   2 W 9   ½ B 8   1 B 5   1 B 6   0 B 7	2 B 10   3½ W 3   2 B 2   3½ W 6   2½ W 8   3 B 4   1½ B 11   2 B 5   1½ Bye   1 W 1   1½ W 7   0 -	2½ W 3   4 B 4   2½ B 1   4 W 2   3½ B 6   3 W 5   2½ W 9   3 W 11   1½ B 7   2 Bye   1½ B 8   0 -	=6   =1   =6   =1   3   =4   =6   =4   =10   9   =10   12

14 May 2014 - Central League Division 2

Grangemouth B v Stirling C
Bill Gray Hugh Hanlon Crawford Welsh Ross Heenan David Fowler	1496 1442 1259 764	½ - ½ 1 - 0 1 - 0 ½ - ½ 0 - 1	1383 1318 1323 1245 1207	Gordon Allcock Craig Manson Mick Bloor Robert Togneri David Brodie
		3 - 2

Richardson Cup - Paul Prescott wins again!

Congratulations to Paul Prescott, who last night retained the Richardson Cup. Paul agreed a draw with John Blake to move to 4½. With a match to spare, Paul has reached a score that no-one else can catch. Well done Paul!

Blake - Prescott

28 April 2014 - Central League Division 2

Dunfermline B v Stirling C
Fred Ossowski Douglas Rew Bryan O'Rourke Derek Rodger	1662 1569 1474 1239	1 - 0 1 - 0 1 - 0 0 - 1 1d - 0d	1318 1245 1207 1182	Craig Manson Robert Togneri David Brodie Robert Leckie
		4 - 1

28 April 2014 - Central League Division 1 - League Decider!

Both teams went into tonight's re-arranged match with a league record of played 7, won 3, drawn 3, lost 1. No other teams in the league can catch either team. Badgers Brook had a slight advantage in board points, meaning a drawn match would have been enough for them, whereas Stirling had to win.

The match got off to a bad start for Stirling when Robin lost to Kenny - although the match could have been settled sooner if Kenny had noticed Robin's en prise knight. I then finished against Andrew with a draw (game below). I looked at the other games, and thought they could all have gone either way. I nipped downstairs to the toilet, came back upstairs and found that all the remaining games had finished as draws.

Congratulations, then, to Badgers Brook on their league title!

Stirling A v Badgers Brook
Jim Shemilt   Steve Smith   Graham Anderson   Robin Hayles   Neil Irving	1810   1750   1670   1660   1657	½ - ½   ½ - ½   ½ - ½   0 - 1   ½ - ½	1904   1942   1792   1776   1629	Martin Clancy   Mark Cooke   Andrew McHarg   Kenny McGeoch   Graham Kerr
		2 - 3

McHarg - Anderson

Thornton Cup winner - Robert Leckie

Congratulations to Robert Leckie, who beat David Brodie in the final of the Thornton Cup on Monday night. Well done, Robert!

Comiserations to David Brodie, who has been runner-up in this competition for four seasons in a row...