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A Muir · King Joined: 15 Feb 2007 Posts: 489 Location: Dumbarton

This has not taken place since 1992.
Why can't it be restarted by the junior chess organisation? Options are
(a) alongside Scottish (b) weekend swiss (c) year long knockout

Geoff Chandler · Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 9:40 am Post subject:

Agree Andy

I Looked at some of the names from these events, it was like
trip down memory lane.

But let's get 1975 sorted out.

1975 A.J. Muir Andrew

Muir wins with 6/7 in a Swiss event with 18 entrants. He was followed by
G. Moultrie 5½; W. Buchanan, I.D. Crorie and C.J. Morrison 4½;
I.L. Lamont and I. Matthew 4; A. Coffey, C.A. McNab, K.M. Ponting and
A.D. Conkie 3½, and seven others.

SCA Bulletin Nr. 39 reports in detail on the event, which had some
interesting moments: Muir received a free point when Crorie overslept;
Moultrie had three successive whites, and then faced Muir with the black
pieces, losing a crucial game, and Kilgour and Scholes were expelled
from the event after 6 rounds for playing 5 minute chess with the
congress clocks.

Now that was a bit harsh. Who did that two these two wee lads?

It slso sounds as if the draw was screwed up.

(Alex Mac. this has signs of your dark hand on it - was it you?)

I think the class of 1975 should be re-united and the whole
event played again.

(I'll buy Ian Crorie, he's now a Bridge corres at some newspaper, an
alarm clock.)

GN · King Joined: 30 Mar 2007 Posts: 415

Geoff Chandler · Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 6:41 pm Post subject:

Hi George - Lothian Champion 2010 - Well done. Good games.

"no wonder they all just agree short draws amongst themselves
every time they play."

Fritz is playing Fritz, what else do you expect?

The collective are all equal, no individual will ever better than another.

Give it a couple of years and everyone will have exactley the same grade.

They have stuck an opening into a computer and it has said the postion
is level, and as all the Borg Kids are using the same computer.....

...they dare not argue with the Mother Borg. Confused

(been waiting for years to slip that Motherboard pun in).

William Hulme · Queen Joined: 08 Mar 2007 Posts: 84

Geoff Chandler · Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 10:17 pm Post subject:

Oops, I've forgot to pass them on.

I'll do it when I home.

Not all that many about, 20 one score sheet was terrible.

(Green v Tate if I recall - one was recording in a thick felt pen the other
was recalling a game he played at another time, another place and on another planet?)

When I'm in charge I will deduct grading points for sloppy writing
and award seats on the Olympiad plane to those can wrtie a nice
neat score sheet.

Stuart Blyth · King Joined: 11 Sep 2008 Posts: 209

told you - bloomin' computers - never used to happen in the old days when people had to write on slates.

Geoff Chandler · Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 11:24 pm Post subject:

Games sent to Alan McGowan (unit 6 of 9) Wink

A Muir · King Joined: 15 Feb 2007 Posts: 489 Location: Dumbarton

Regarding the 1975 championships, they were played in a big hall with all the clocks for the other tournaments present waiting for the round.
To pass the time players played 5-minute chess before the games started. Certain players got caught.

In my crucial game with George Moultrie, I was glad when he blitzed out the whole game in about 5-10 minutes as he liked to do. I spent a whole hour. This gave George a large psychological advantage over his opponents when he did this. However his 12th or 13th move simply hung a pawn in a closed Ruy Lopez.

I didn't do so well in earlier boys champs. I knew nothing about the Alekhine which Ed Perry played or Modern which Simon Gillam played and was well down the field in those years.

If someone can find the trophy, let's rerun the tournament.
Names entered in October, knockout during season.

The Boys Champs nowadays has been retitled the Jonathan Rowson award ie winner gets award without playing

Geoff Chandler · Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 6:41 pm Post subject:

With you 100% on the one Andy.

S.Willets won it last, so he has to replaced it. Smile

Possible weekender at the Edinburgh Club is another way.

What were/are age limits that classed someone as a boy.

Also do a girl's one as well, why not.

Now then: Back to 1975.

You saw a cunning way to get rid of two of your most dangerous opponents.

So you asked them to prove who was the best 5 minute chess player.
And when they started playing you told the conroller.

Brilliant.

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

Actually, the Scottish Boys Championship has been contested quite a number of times since 1992, though probably not every year.

For a time it was run as a weekend event in May/June (i.e. separate from the Scottish congress), and in recent years the title has been awarded to the highest-placed eligible boy in the Scottish Championship or Scottish Open - in 2008, for example, it was won jointly by Andrew Green and Connor Woods.

Information on the years from 1993 on does seem hard to find (maybe Alex McFarlane has it all archived somewhere) but I recall that Andrew Walkingshaw and Graeme Plato each won the Scottish Boys Championship at some time in the mid-to-late 1990s.

JR · King Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 447 Location: Edinburgh

Yes I can remember playing in it on a number of occasions in the late 1990's and early 2000's, although I can't remember which years I won it. Remember winning jointly with David Sime one year.

I can rememeber Andrew Walkingshaw winning as well.

Would be interesting to see the details of who won each year if anyone knows!

edit : Looking through the old grading data now,

1998 : Walkingshaw
1999: Eynon/Sime
2000: Redpath/Sime
2001: Can't find
2002: Redpath/Macdonald/Green
2003: Thomson
2004: Macdonald
2005: ?
2006: ?
2007: ?
2008: ?
2009: ?

Duncan Grassie · Rook Joined: 25 Feb 2007 Posts: 64

2001: Redpath/Grassie Cool

William Hulme · Queen Joined: 08 Mar 2007 Posts: 84

2006 and 2007 (I think) was ALEX IAN NISBET
2008 was ANDREW GREEN and CONNOR WOODS

JR · King Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 447 Location: Edinburgh