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Alex McFarlane · King Joined: 13 Mar 2007 Posts: 413

Time of entry can be a major issue.

When the names are published on the web there is no doubt that strong players attract other strong players. This may also attract others. If these names only appear at the last minute then these additional entries are lost.

Some players will only enter when they think the numbers already entered means that the prize fund will not be cut.

I have known events where a late flurry of entries meant that the control team was one person short as the organiser had been watching the pennies and keeping his expenses to a minimum.
I've even known sets having to be removed from the analysis area because there were no longer enough for the actual tournament.

Daniel Rocks · Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 1:32 pm Post subject:

Entry List can be viewed at new feature created by AMcHarg:

http://www.chessscotland.com/tournament.php?tid=7375611060893

Entries as of 7th July
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Mike Scott · King Joined: 01 Feb 2007 Posts: 676 Location: Edinburgh

GN Said

Daniel Rocks · Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 10:22 pm Post subject:

*Reminder that there is less than a week until the 1st East Dunbartonshire Congress.*

The draw for round 1 will be made on Friday morning so I would advise anyone wishing to enter to do so before 11pm on Thursday night.

All of the information can be found here:

http://www.chessscotland.com/tournament.php?tid=7375611060893

Regards Smile

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AMcHarg · Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 8:31 am Post subject:

It looks like you have quite a good number of entries going into the last week before your first event Daniel! Very Happy

Unfortunately I can't play as I will be on holiday, but good luck with it!

Donald Wilson · Queen Joined: 07 Mar 2007 Posts: 143

Provisional Round 1 Pairings

Kings
1. Chukwuka Allor (w) v George Glover
2. Alastair Stewart v James Doyle
3. Steve Hilton v Lennart Koehn
4. Daniel Thomas v Ian Marks
5. Michael Grove v Simon Kerridge
6. Peter McEwan v Alan Jelfs
7. Anthony Dunlop v Nihad Abdulla
Jonathan Edwards: 1-pt bye
John McBride: ½-pt bye

Queens
1. Scott Browning (w) v David Brodie
2. Geoffrey White v Murad Abdulla
3. Bernard Cassidy v Alastair Dallas
4. William Walker v Ian Morris
5. Mike Mitchell v Robert MacBeath
6. Advaith Sastry v Gordon Allcock
7. John Pearston v Mark Callaghan
Robert Kelso: 1-pt bye
David Potts: ½-pt bye

Obviously, there may be changes in the event of late entries or withdrawals, but the principle of "minimum disruption" will apply, so that if both players in any of the pairings shown turn up the pairing will not be changed.

The players shown provisionally as having 1-pt byes should still turn up on time, as they will be the first to be paired if there are any late entries.

AMcHarg · Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 2:42 pm Post subject:

Just a thought: can't the two 1 pt byes be paired against each other in a graded friendly? That's what usually happens I think - it would ensure they at least get a game.

Donald Wilson · Queen Joined: 07 Mar 2007 Posts: 143

Andrew,

That's what we would do, once we knew everybody was there.

But on this occasion, I've just learned that Mike Mitchell has withdrawn, so Robert Kelso will simply slot into Mike's place in the draw, i.e. board 5 of the Queens event is now:
Robert Kelso (w) v Robert MacBeath

If there are any further changes of personnel I will deal with them in the morning.

robin moore · King Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 164

Thought I would wait till the event started here before posting. Just to say that David Congalton and friends connected with the Prestwick congress are very interested in a lot of the ideas being bandied about here regarding entry fee/time/discount etc. I was reminded of this when listening to Radio Scotland today and Bill Leckie said he was once told by a football manager he would rather have 10,000 people paying a fiver each than 5,000 paying a tenner each. Like most tournaments we would like as much quantity with hopefully some quality and therefore all options are being considered as to pricing. One thing you can be certain of, if players remain loyal to supporting Prestwick, they will be rewarded.

Jacqui Thomas · King Joined: 01 May 2007 Posts: 340

Not long been home from taking my Daniel to this event & just want to say a big THANKYOU to Daniel Rocks for organising the event & not only finding a great venue but also inspiring some local juniors to start playing

Donald Wilson · Queen Joined: 07 Mar 2007 Posts: 143

East Dunbartonshire Congress - Prizewinners

Kings
1= Chukwuka Allor (Shettleston) 4½/5
1= Alan Jelfs (East Kilbride) 4½/5
U1800 Grading Prize - Daniel Thomas (East Kilbride) 3/5

Queens
1= Murad Abdulla (Bon Accord) 4/5
1= Bernard Cassidy (Hamilton) 4/5
U1300 Grading Prize =
Robert Kelso (Cumbernauld), David Brodie (Stirling) and William Walker (Bishopbriggs) 2½/5

SteveHilton · King Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Posts: 443 Location: Greenock

I would liker to thank Daniel and Donald for their help during the tournament. I found the tournament to be most enjoyable but exhausting especially on a Saturday Laughing

My congratulations to all the prizewinners

Jim Crawford · Bishop Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 33 Location: Edinburgh

anyone tell me how Scott Browning did in the compitition
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Daniel Rocks · Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 11:28 am Post subject:

Results for the 2 sections can be found at the following links:

http://www.chessscotland.com/event2012/East_Dunbartonshire_Kings_2011.html

http://www.chessscotland.com/event2012/East_Dunbartonshire_Queens_2011.html

FIDE performances:

http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=60260

Report, Games & Photos will be made available over the next few days.

Thanks to all who attended.
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Jim Crawford · Bishop Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 33 Location: Edinburgh

thanks for that, looking forward to seeing photographs when you have the time to upload
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