Bon Accord Club Championship Round 3 Draw

The draw for round 3 of the Bon Accord club championship is as follows:

White		Black
Jeremy Mitchell (2)		Robert Lothian (2)
Mike Cavanagh (2)		Neil Irving (2)
Guillem Noguera (1½)		Euan Gray (2)
Duncan Harwood (1)		Richard Jennings (1½)
Alan Smith (1)		Duncan McClymont (0+1)
Alex Stewart (0+1)		Ricky Telford (1)
Charles Oppenheim (1)		Malcolm MacMillan (1)
Pranav Arcot (1)		Ian Grieve (1)
Chris Rose (1)		Connor Sibbald (0+1)
Senthil Ragupathy (0+1)		Sean Gordon (1)
Oishani Dutta (½)		John Ewen (½)
Adi Hegde (½)		Kalyan Kante (½)
Ramesh Kante (0)		Nandini Dutta (0)
Ross Brennan (0)		Pranav Saravanan (0)

All games should be played on Tuesday 10 January 2017.
The absolute deadline for the round is Tuesday 31 January 2017.

If there are any problems please contact Ross Brennan.

Club Championship Round 2 Results

The results for round 2 of the club championship are as follows:

White		Black
Robert Lothian (1)	1-0	Alan Smith (1)
Euan Gray (1)	1-0	Duncan Harwood (1)
Richard Jennings (1)	½-½	Guillem Noguera (1)
Ricky Telford (1)	1-0	Mike Cavanagh (1)
Neil Irving (1)	1-0	Charles Oppenheim (1)
Ian Grieve (1)	0-1	Jeremy Mitchell (1)
Sean Gordon (0)	1-0	Pranav Arcot (1)
John Ewen (0)	½-½	Adi Hegde (0)
Nandini Dutta (0)	0-1	Chris Rose (0)
Pranav Saravanan (0)	0-1	Eugene Ogosi (0)
Duncan McClymont (0)	P-P	Senthil Ragupathy (0)
Connor Sibbald (0)	P-P	Alex Stewart (0)
Malcolm MacMillan (0)	1-0	Ramesh Kante (0)
Kalyan Kante (0)	½-½	Oishani Dutta (0)

Note that the games between Duncan McClymont and Senthil Ragupathy and Connor Sibbald and Alex Stewart have been postponed until 2017.

Christmas Lightning Tournament

The Christmas Lightning tournament was held on Friday 16th December at Ferryhill community centre.

The tournament was organised by Ross Brennan, and was won by Hamish Olson with a perfect score of 5/5.

Full results were as follows:

  1   Olson, Hamish                 2117 5         
  2   Mitchell, Jeremy              1831 4         
 3-4  Dutta, Atanu                  1432 3.5      
      Pasha, Tariq                  1739 3.5       
 5-9  Lothian, Robert               2052 3         
      Dutta, Nandini                1116 3        
      Kante, Kalyan                 1136 3        
      Bisset, Alex                       3       
      Ewen, John                    1592 3       
10-11 Pranav, Saravanan             667  2.5     
      Rose, Chris                   1437 2.5     
12-17 Dutta, Oishani                1149 2       
      Noguera, Guillem              1600 2       
      Nicol, James                       2       
      Subramaniam, Ananth           210  2       
      Joseph, Sam                        2     
      Kante, Ramesh                 908  2     
18-21 Ganesan, Uma                       1      
      Subramaniam, Anish            410  1      
      Levan, Hung                        1     
      Vikram, Tarun                      1     
 22   Joseph, Johann                     0

Christmas Lightning Tournament – Friday December 16th

There will be a lightning tournament on Friday December 16th instead of training.

This will be the last meeting of the club in 2016.

Scottish National Chess League Rounds 3 and 4

Bon Accord picked up two wins in rounds 3 and 4 of the Scottish National Chess League leaving the team top of divison 3. The team was slightly weakened due to a clash with the (football) league cup final, but fortunately the chess team from Aberdeen substantially outperformed the football team.

Round 3

		Bon Accord				Pentland Hills
1	W	Murad Abdulla	2045	1	0	Robin Bauld	1738
2	B	Daniel Maxwell	2067	1	0	Charles Nisbet	1560
3	W	Richard Jennings	1894	1	0	Walter Pearson	1376
4	B	Alex Beston		1	0	Andrew Clark	1319
5	W	Pranav Arcot	624	0	1	Jim Wallace	1222
				4	1

Round 4

		Edinburgh 2				Bon Accord
1	W	Robert Kane	1861	0	1	Murad Abdulla	2045
2	B	Andre Antunes	1857	0	1	Daniel Maxwell	2067
3	W	Michael Ridge	1837	0	1	Richard Jennings	1894
4	B	David Archibald	1826	1	0	Alex Beston
5	W	Calum McGillivray	1630	1	0	Pranav Arcot	624
				2	3