The Bon Accord All Stars vs Teflon Sharks match in the North East Scotland allegro league was played on Friday 28th November. The outcome was the following:
| Bon Accord All Stars | Teflon Sharks | |||||
| 1 | Daniel Maxwell | 2101 | 2 | 0 | Murad Abdulla | 1818 |
| 2 | Hamish Olson | 1976 | 2 | 0 | Jeremy Mitchell | 1731 |
| 3 | Anna Milton | 1534 | 1.5 | 0.5 | Ross Brennan | 1756 |
| 4 | Callum Smith | 940 | 1 | 0 | Eric Davidson | 1721 |
| Euan Gray | 1379 | 0 | 1 | |||
| 6.5 | 1.5 | |||||
The Bon Accord All Stars vs Newmachar match in the North East Scotland chess league was played on Tuesday 25th November. The outcome was the following:
| Bon Accord All Stars | Newmachar | ||||||
| 1 | B | Hamish Olson | 2087 | 1 | 0 | Joy Durno | 1732 |
| 2 | W | Daniel Maxwell | 2081 | 1 | 0 | Harry Praeger | 1592 |
| 3 | B | Carl Milton | 1634 | 1 | 0 | Steve Sawaryn | 1453 |
| 4 | W | Sean Milton | 1112 | 0.5 | 0.5 | Dave Smith | 1102 |
| 3.5 | 0.5 | ||||||
The All Stars versus Bishops match in the North East Scotland chess league was played on Friday 21st November. The outcome was the following:
| Bon Accord All Stars | Bon Accord Bishops | ||||||
| 1 | B | Daniel Maxwell | 2081 | 1 | 0 | Mike Cavanagh | 1856 |
| 2 | W | Carl Milton | 1634 | 0 | 1 | Richard Jennings | 1820 |
| 3 | B | Anna Milton | 1594 | 0.5 | 0.5 | Hugh Holmes | 1724 |
| 4 | W | Tariq Pasha | 1192 | 1 | 0 | Ian Grieve | 1445 |
| 2.5 | 1.5 | ||||||
Hamish Olson and I were playing in the Oban chess congress this weekend with pretty decent results. Oban is a well established tournament – this was the 20th edition – and is one of the most sociable congresses because everyone stays in the town and no-one commutes. Each year there is a pub quiz held in the Royal hotel on Saturday evening, which we didn’t win.
Collectively we were a bit more successful in the chess.
Hamish got 3.5/5 in the open. In round 2 he beat International Master Steve Mannion (a game with which he was very pleased), and his only loss was with black to International Master Andrew Greet.
In spite of playing four of the five highest rated players I scored 4/5 in the challengers – including a game where I checkmated my opponent in ten moves. This was enough to finish in a share of 1st place.
The Stonehaven vs Bon Accord Knights fixture in the North East Scotland Chess League was played on Wednesday 19th November. The result was a victory for the knights as follows:
| Stonehaven | Bon Accord Knights | ||||||
| 1 | B | Keith Emery | 1684 | 0 | 1 | Duncan Harwood | 1988 |
| 2 | W | Bruce Harrold | 1672 | 1 | 0 | Neil Irving | 1644 |
| 3 | B | Pat Coffield | 1452 | 0.5 | 0.5 | Ricky Telford | 1639 |
| 4 | W | David Bridges | 1235 | 0 | 1 | Mark Barclay | 1457 |
| 1.5 | 2.5 | ||||||
Mark converted an extra exchange to be the first to finish. Duncan managed to strand his opponent’s king in the centre of the board, and was then able to fork his rooks. I blundered a rook while trying to defend a bad position in time trouble. Ricky secured the points when his opponent offered a draw in a complicated looking queen and knight ending.
The draw for round 2 of the club championship is as follows:
| White | Black |
| Neil Irving (1) | Hamish Olson (1) |
| Bob Lothian (1) | Richard Jennings (1) |
| Alan Smith (1) | Duncan Harwood (1) |
| Mike Cavanagh (1) | Ricky Telford (1) |
| Jeremy Mitchell (½) | Eric Davidson (0) |
| Carl Milton (0) | Leston D’Costa (½) |
| Dylan Bodrell (0) | John Ewen (0) |
| Euan Gray (0) | Stuthi Hegde (0) |
| Tariq Pasha (0) | Mark Barclay (0) |
| Ian Grieve (0) | Callum Smith (0) |
The deadline games to be completed is Friday 12th December
The results of round 1 of the club championship were as follows:
| White | Black | ||
| Hamish Olson | 1 | 0 | Carl Milton |
| John Ewen | 0 | 1 | Bob Lothian |
| Duncan Harwood | 1 | 0 | Euan Gray |
| Mark Barclay | 0 | 1 | Mike Cavanagh |
| Richard Jennings | 1 | 0 | Ian Grieve |
| Leston D’Costa | 0.5 | 0.5 | Jeremy Mitchell |
| Eric Davidson | 0 | 1 | Alan Smith |
| Stuthi Hegde | 0 | 1 | Neil Irving |
| Ricky Telford | 1 | 0 | Dylan Bodrell |
The standings are as follows:
| Hamish Olson, Bob Lothian, Duncan Harwood, Mike Cavanagh, Richard Jennings, Neil Irving, Alan Smith, Ricky Telford | 1 |
| Jeremy Mitchell, Leston D’Costa | 0.5 |
| Eric Davidson, Carl Milton, John Ewen, Euan Gray, Mark Barclay, Ian Grieve, Stuthi Hegde, Dylan Bodrell | 0 |
The results of the round 1 allegro league game between Newmachar and the Bon Accord Bishops were as follows:
| Newmachar | Bon Accord Bishops | ||||||
| 1 | Joy Durno | 1693 | 2 | 0 | Mike Cavanagh | 1735 | |
| 2 | Harry Praeger | 1592 | 1.5 | 0.5 | Richard Jennings | 1757 | |
| 3 | David Smith | 1083 | 0.5 | 1.5 | Hugh Holmes | 1724 | |
| 4 | William Moore | 926 | 0 | 2 | Ian Grieve | 1524 | |
| 4 | 4 | ||||||
The Teflon Sharks vs Peterhead match in the North East Scotland chess league took place on Tuesday 11th November.
The results were as follows:
| Teflon Sharks | Peterhead | ||||||
| 1 | B | Jeremy Mitchell | 1812 | 0.5 | 0.5 | Chris Rose | 1435 |
| 2 | W | Ross Brennan | 1670 | 0.5 | 0.5 | Malcolm MacMillan | 1106 |
| 3 | B | Eric Davidson | 1669 | 1 | 0 | Dominic Troman | 1093 |
| 4 | W | Alan Smith | 1603 | 1 | 0 | Matthew Buchan | U/G |
| 3 | 1 | ||||||
The 2014 Scottish National Chess League has a record 38 teams in 5 divisions. Because Bon Accord are competing for the first time in several years we have started in division 5.
We began our campaign with had two comprehensive wins in the first two rounds of the Scottish National Chess League. The results were as follows:
Round 1
| Prestwick | Bon Accord | ||||||
| 1 | W | Mark Sanger | 2046 | 0 | 1 | Adam Bremner | 2157 |
| 2 | B | Bob Smith | 1302 | 0 | 1 | Hamish Olson | 2087 |
| 3 | W | Craig Gillies | 1173 | 0 | 1 | John Clifford | 1683 |
| 4 | B | Jake Sanger | 1097 | 0 | 1 | Tariq Pasha | 1192 |
| 5 | W | Tom Laing | 1015 | 0 | 1 | Callum Smith | 1057 |
| 0 | 5 | ||||||
Round 2
| Bon Accord | SCAD | ||||||
| 1 | W | Adam Bremner | 2157 | 1 | 0 | Ian Carmichael | 1556 |
| 2 | B | Hamish Olson | 2087 | 1 | 0 | Mark Towler | U/G |
| 3 | W | John Clifford | 1683 | 1 | 0 | Colin Simpson | 1226 |
| 4 | B | Tariq Pasha | 1192 | 1 | 0 | Graham Duff | 937 |
| 5 | W | Callum Smith | 1057 | 1 | 0 | John Christie | 892 |
| 5 | 0 | ||||||
Congratulations to Adam, Hamish, John, Tariq and Callum on an excellent start to the season.
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