CLUB NIGHT REPORT: Thurs 28th March 19 Sorry a bit late but there has been a lot of chess on with one thing or another and reports coming out of my ears! Short report, not much detail! What a night we had with 43+ down at the club. We are blessed with the amount of…
TAFCA ALLEGRO CHAMPIONSHIP (Kirkcaldy – part 5) Wednesday 27th March 2019. This was the last in a series of 5 events to crown the TAFCA Allegro Champion 2018-19. Also at stake was the 1st ever TAFCA Allegro Kirkcaldy Champion. A fantastic 25 players made it to Kirkcaldy Chess Club at the St.Clair Tavern. It…
SNCL (Scottish National Chess League) Round 7 (last one! 24/03/19 – Dunfermilne Well the last round certainly had some twists and turns and must have been given Alastair Dawson palpitations or ulcers! Congratulations to Dundee City A on retaining their division one title! Congratulations to Dundee City C on getting promoted to division 3! This…
CLUB NIGHT REPORT: Thurs 21st March 19 Another busy night at Castlehill with two TAFCA matches, one Club Championship match, some Junior Club Championship matches, plus coaching and skittles games. TAFCA Result – Div 1 Castlehill B 3½, Kirkcaldy A ½ Great result for our “B” team against Kirkcaldy’s finest! Ray Noble playing up…
CLUB REPORT: Thurs 14th March 19 Another busy night as you would expect with 36 players down. We had two TAFCA Knockout Semi-finals on, plus Junior coaching and skittle games. TAFCA KO Castlehill had two teams reach the semi-final stage and in opposite sides of the draw. Unfortunately both got knockout out at this…
TAFCA ALLEGRO CHAMPIONSHIP (part 5 – last) Kirkcaldy Chess Club Wednesday 27th March 2019 The 5th part (last) of the 5 part series, in the “TAFCA Allegro Championship” takes place on Wednesday 27th March at“KIRKCALDY CHESS CLUB”, 7:30pm sign-in. Due to fire damage at Kirkcaldy`s venue (St.Clair Bowling Club), Kirkcaldy now play out of…
JUNIOR CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP 2018-19 Update – 13/03/19 Games have been a bit slow in coming this year, something we will need to address. While we want the kids to have fun, they are here to learn and play chess! Rishabh Akula tops the table on 13 points despite suffering a shock loss to Haoqi Zang…
TAFCA Div 1 – Wed 6th March 19 Kirkcaldy A 2, Castlehill C 2 Kirkcaldy Chess Club have a temporary new venue due to fire damage at the St.Clair Bowling Club. The St.Clair Tavern got Ray Noble’s approval as it had a bar! It proved to be a good venue for playing chess as well.…
CHESS SCOTLAND – SPENS CUP Saturday 9th March 2019 – Venue: Castlehill Chess Club Castlehill v Cathcart Castlehill were up against it playing a side that really should be in the Richardson Cup latter stages! Declan,Shafi; Sam Gregory; Andre Babin; Jan Barron-Majerik and Paul Shafi put up a great fight but in the end Cathcart…
CLUB NIGHT REPORT: Thurs 7th March 19 We had 40 players down (12 juniors!) for a game of chess on what was a very busy nights chess! Two TAFCA matches plus one Castlehill Knockout prelim match. We also had Junior Club Championship and a Ladder on! TAFCA Results Div 1 Castlehill A 4, Castlehill B…