Photos

Thanks to Gordon Walker (of Badgers Brook) and Bill Cook for the photos, below, of the winning Under 1500 team with their trophy.

L-R: Martyn Roe, Craig Manson, David Brodie, Gordon Allcock, Dave Hewitt

L-R: Robert Togneri, David Brodie, Mick Bloor

11 May 2016 - Under 1500 Cup Final

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

9 May 2016 - Robert Togneri Trophy

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.

28 April 2016 - Under 1500 Cup

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

20 April 2016 - Central League Division 2

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

18 April 2016 - Central League Division 2

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

11 April 2016 - Central Allegro League

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