2024-25 Season
Updated: 05/04/25 – 19:35 hrs
Round 5 draw (last) now up on website!
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Apologies, been playing catch up! The round 4 draw is now up on our website. Deadline for matches 30th March 25.
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The first round draw is now up (apologies for taking so long!), and the deadline date is Sun 8th Dec 24. Good luck everybody!
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Congratulations to Andre Babin on winning against Tom Wardlaw in their round 5 match and becoming the Castlehill Online Club Champion 2023-24! A perfect 5 out of 5!
Well play Andre!
Leyton Hackney, Tom Wardlaw & Stuart Duff finish joint runners-up on 4 points.
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Going into the last round (5), we have two players on the full 4 points (Andre Babin & Tom Wardlaw) and of course, they meet to see who will be left standing at the top of the table! Of course if they draw, they share the title! The round 5 draw is now up on the website and the deadline is Sun 5th May 24!
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Round 4 draw and standing now up on our website!
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Round one completed and are first upset (only one!), with Chris Moore taking down old faithful, Ray Noble!
Round 2 draw now up on website, with the deadline, Sun 7th Jan 24!
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We are go! Round one on website with 19 players!
Good luck to everybody!
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Entries are now being taken for the Online Club Championship 2023-24.
Closing date for entries is Sunday 22nd Oct 23.
Check the revised & updated rules for more information.
ENTRIES (so far)
| # | NAME | JUN | GRADE |
| 1 | Kynoch, Richard | 1869 | |
| 2 | Mooney, Graham | 1866 | |
| 3 | McLeod, Alisdair | 1622 | |
| 4 | Jackson, Robert | 1575 | |
| 5 | Brennan, Ross | 1565 | |
| 6 | Hackney, Leyton | 1561 | |
| 7 | Wardlaw, Tom | 1440 | |
| 8 | Noble, Ray | 1432 | |
| 9 | Duff, Stuart | 1342 | |
| 10 | Harley, Trevor | 1333 | |
| 11 | Hunter, Matthew | J15 | 1300 |
| 12 | Thomas, Gordon | 1292 | |
| 13 | Waugh, Norman | 1158 | |
| 14 | Crocker, Adam | 1110 | |
| 15 | Dickson, Josh | J13 | 1082 |
| 16 | Kanodia, Ramit | J16 | 976 |
| 17 | Firth, Judith | ||
| 18 | Liu, Haoqi | J13 | |
| 19 | Moore, Chris |
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2022-23 Season
CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP ONLINE 2022-23
5-round Swiss – 45 minutes + 15 seconds – Lichess.org
Round 5 (last)
Congratulations to Richard Kynoch on becoming the Castlehill Online Club Champion 2023-24 after beating Andre Babin in the last round to finish on 5 points and unbeaten!
Graham Mooney & Andre Babin tied for the runners up spot on 4 points. Last seasons defending champion, Rishi Vijayakumar J11, could only manage 4th equal, after losing in the first round and drawing with Andy Rowe in the last round!
Once again congratulations to Richard Kynoch!
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Round 4 report and round 5 draw.
No major shocks in round 4 apart from young Josh Dickson J12 (880) getting a very fine draw against Kit McEvoy Gould (1560)est! Nice win, great tournament Josh!
The two leaders (4 points), Andre Babin and Richard Kynoch meet in the last round, while the defending champion, Rishi Vijayakumar J11 (3 points) plays Andy Rowe. Rishi still paying the price for his shock defeat in round one to Tom Wardlaw!
The 5th round (last) draw is now up on the website and the deadline date to be played by is Sunday 7th May 23.
Good luck to all players!
See tabs for all the info and 5th round draw!
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CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP ONLINE 2022-23
5-round Swiss – 45 minutes + 15 seconds – Lichess.org
Round 3 report and round 4 draw.
A bit disappointing with 6 defaulted matches, but to be fair there are a lot of competitions on, OTB and online!
We had two shock results in round 3 with Master Nhat Nguyen J14 (1200)est beating in form Alisdair McLeod (1531) and Camila Montenegro (ug) taking the points against Lloyd Hughes (1754)! Nhat is a very good junior talent, while Camila must have been in 7th heaven after taking down a 1754! Well done the both of you!
We are down to 4 players on the full 3 points (Subhayu Banerjee, Andre Babin, Graham Mooney and Richard Kynoch), with the defending champion, Rishi Vijayakumar J11 just 1 point behind on 2 points. This round will make or break some player’s chances of winning the title, and other may need a little helping hand from other players!
The round 4 draw is now on the website (see link below) and the deadline for matches to be played is Sunday 26th March 23.
Time-Control: 45 minutes + 15 seconds, Rated!
Please contact your opponent ASAP to try and arrange a date and time as it’s a busy chess calendar!
Good luck!
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CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP ONLINE 2022-23
5-round Swiss – 45 minutes + 15 seconds – Lichess.org
Round 2 report and round 3 draw.
Surprisingly there was only one shock result in round 2 with Subhayu Banerjee (1444) getting the better of Euan Murray (1575) with the black pieces! You still got it somewhere Subahyu!
All the rest of the results went with the form book (we have a form book?).
We have 8 players still on full points, but in round 3 something has to give!
The round 3 draw is now on the website (see link below) and the deadline for matches to be played is Sunday 5th February 23.
Please contact your opponent ASAP to try and arrange a date and time as it’s a busy chess calendar!
Good luck!
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CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP ONLINE 2022-23 – Round One Report
5-round Swiss – 45 minutes + 15 seconds – Lichess.org
Well the 1st round went okay with most matches taking place by the deadline. We still have about 4 matches outstanding and hopefully will be played! To make sure we are not held up too much I have given them a “Pool’s Panel” result (just like the football!) so the 2nd round draw can take place
Most of the 1st round matches went by the form book, but we did have a couple that did not! The biggest shock of the tournament was by Tom Wardlaw (1234) who beat defending champion Rishi Vijayakumar J11! Well played Tom! Did not see that one coming!
Credit also to Nhat Nguyan J13, for getting a fighting draw with the black against the experienced Lloyd Hughes (1754). Nice game Nhat!
The round 2 draw is up on our website and the deadline date is “CHRISTMAS”! Yes Sun 25th Dec 22 is the deadline and I wonder how many of you will scramble to play it by or even “ON” Christmas! Hope you get the present you want!
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2021-22 season
UDATED: Round 4 – 03/05/22
| # | NAME | GRADE | Total Points | Rd 1 | Rd 2 | Rd 3 | Rd 4 | Rd 5 | ## |
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| 1 | Babin, Andre | 1897 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Champion |
| 2= | Hackney, Leyton | 1561 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 2= | Wardlaw, Tom | 1440 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2= | Duff, Stuart | 1342 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 5 | Thomas, Gordon | 1292 | 3.5 | 0 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | |
| 6= | Kynoch, Richard | 1869 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 6= | McLeod, Alisdair | 1622 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 6= | Jackson, Robert | 1575 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 6= | Brennan, Ross | 1565 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 6= | Noble, Ray | 1432 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 11= | Mooney, Graham | 1866 | 2.5 | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| 11= | Sneddon, Ian | 1637 | 2.5 | 0.5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 11= | Moore, Chris | 2.5 | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 14= | Hunter, Matthew | 1300 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 14= | Crocker, Adam | 1110 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| 14= | Deshpande, Anay | 1074 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 14= | Firth, Judith | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 18= | Harley, Trevor | 1333 | 1.5 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 18= | Dick. Sean | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
| 20= | Waugh, Norman | 1158 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 20= | Dickson, Josh | 1082 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| 20= | Liu, Haoqi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Deadline: Sun 12th Jan 25
Round two draw (Completed)
ONLINE CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP RULES – Revised & updated – AGM – 7th Sept 23
GENERAL
- Participation in this event therefore means acceptance of the Club Constitution, General rules, Club Online Fair-Play rules (see relevant documents) and competition rules herein.
- FIDE rules of chess apply except were amended herein by Castlehill Chess Club.
- All matches will be played on an “Online Platform” designated by the competition organiser/committee.
ELIGIBILITY
- All players must be either paid up members of the club or a paid-up member of our online chess club only. The committee and competition organiser can grant an exception to this rule under certain circumstances (Example: new member joining late in the season?).
GRADING
- Each player shall have a grading, using the following order below:
- a) Chess Scotland published standard grading; b) Chess Scotland live grading; c) Chess Scotland published allegro grading; d) Chess Scotland live allegro grading; e) Another national association or FIDE grading, accordingly converted; f) Estimated grading given by the Internal competition organiser.
- All online grading regardless of time-control go for Chess Scotland allegro grading.
FORMAT
- The closing date for entries will be set by the competition organiser and these will be displayed on our website.
- Players can still enter during the competition at any time.
- The ONLINE Championship will be a 5 round Swiss event using either a computer pairing program or by hand using Swiss pairing rules.
- The draw will be made by the competition organiser and emailed to all players; published on our website and on the club notice board (if one has one!). In all rounds the first player named has white.
- All matches in each round should be played either before or on the deadline date.
- Any matches not played by the deadline will be defaulted by the offending player or players, unless an extension is granted by the competition organiser. If a player defaults for a second time they shall be withdrawn from competition and a report will be sent to the committee for possible further action if required.
- When the draw is published, “BOTH PLAYERS” must make a serious attempt to contact their opponent or risk defaulting the match. In the event of any problems, players must contact the competition organiser.
- In the event of an agreed date and time being set by both players, and a player does not attend/online that match appointment, the offending player shall be defaulted, unless their opponent wishes to reschedule, time permitting.
- TAKE-BACK MOVES is not permitted, even after a mouse /hand slip!
CHALLENGING RULES
- The competition organiser will inform you of the challenging rules depending on which online platform is used.
- The player with white sets the time-control, colour, etc and makes the challenge, while black checks the challenge is correct and accepts the challenge if correct, or declines the challenge if incorrect and messages his opponent to sort out the issue before challenge is re-issued.
MATCH POINTS SYSTEM
- The scoring shall be: Win = 1 point; Draw = ½ point; Loss = Zero points.
BYES
- Any player may request a ½ point bye in the first 4 rounds only.
TIME-CONTROL
- Time-Control used is 45 minutes + 15 seconds increments each player.
- Matches should start at 7:30pm, unless both players have agreed a different time. In the event of an opponent not being present at the agreed date and time, their opponent must wait for 15 minutes after the agreed time before they can claim a default and leave.
PLACINGS
- Players will be placed in highest point’s order, with the player(s) with the most points after the 5 rounds becoming champion(s).
TIE-BREAKS
- No tie-breaks in club championship (see trophies).
TROPHIES
- Online Club Champion only.
CONTROL
- The competition organiser and/or committee may make amendments deemed appropriate to ensure the smooth running of the tournament.