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…
TAFCA ALLEGRO CHAMPIONSHIP PART FOUR DUNDEE The penultimate (part 4) series of the TAFCA Allegro Championship took place at Dundee Chess Club on Tuesday 26th February 2019. It was a great night’s chess and Dundee Chess Club were fantastic hosts on the night! Dundee pulled out all the stops and the only thing missing was…
SNCL (Scottish National Chess League) – Rounds 5 & 6, Sunday 24th February 2019 Carnegie Conference Centre, Dunfermline. Dundee City Report (“A” & “B” & “C” & Juniors; A joint venture between Castlehill CC & Dundee CC) After the festive break, battles resumed once again for our 4 teams in the penultimate day at the…
CLUB NIGHT REPORT: Thurs 21st Feb 19 It was a special night with over 40 players down at the club tonight. Three TAFCA matches and a special guest, Scottish Champion for the past two years, Murad Abdulla (2256) FM! Murad was here to play Declan Shafi in a rearranged Dundee Club Championship match. Castlehill Chess…