FIDE CANDIDATES TOURNAMENT 22 – Update rounds 11 & 12!
SNOCL – Scottish National Online Chess League
Organised by SOCO – Scottish Online Chess Organisation
This is an online version of the SNCL (Scottish National Chess League)
Once again Castlehill Chess Club enters under the Dundee City banner with our good friends Dundee Chess Club. This joint venture has proved successful in the National events. This season we have three teams entered.
This will be a 5 round event with two rounds held each Sunday (11am & 2pm) over three Sundays
Rounds 1 & 2: Sunday 30th January 22; Rounds 3 & 4: Sunday 20th February 22; Round 5: Sunday 27th March 22.
Time-Control: 25 minutes + 10 seconds increments.
SNOCL – Chess.com
Rounds 3 & 4 – Sunday 20th February 22
RESULTS – 11am
Div 1
Bearsden (½ – 4½) Dundee City 1
A nice comfortable win for Dundee City 1 and it`s players with the only slight shock result was Stephen`s draw against a 1175? (Andrew Greet IM (2402); Ed Spencer (2022); Stephen Hogg (1977); Ross Bremner (1942) & Andre Babin (1748))
Edinburgh 1 (3 – 1) Dundee City 2
All plaudits to Dundee City 2 losing to champions elect, Edinburgh 1 by only one point! Congratulations to the bottom two boards of Rishi Vijayakumar J10 (1517) beating an (1888) on board 3 and Euan Murray ((1508) on board 4 winning his game! Dariusz Kosznik (1752) on board one put up one hell of a fight against Scottish legend Neil Berry (2241) and was unlucky not to get something out of it! This time out Cosmo Bobak (1600) and Leyton Hackney (1546) were the unlucky players. Well played every one against very strong opponents!
Div 2
Dundee City 3 (1 – 4) Sneaky Stalematers
It was a tough ask in Division 2 for Dundee City 3 against Sneaky Stalematers grading wise and so it proved result wise! With James Anderson (1421), Ray Flood (1406), Subhayu Banerjee (1358) and Max Whisson J15 (1058) all losing, it was left to our board 3 Ana Belen Seijas Otero (1390) to save us from the whitewash! Ana played a very measured and controlled game to get the win with plenty time on her clock! But there was one moment near the end where the Stalematers tried to live up to that name, but Ana with plenty time did not fall into that trap!
Ana`s opponent on move 48 played pg8=Q setting the trap Qxg8 Stalemate!
Thankfully Ana was aware of the trap and avoided it to finish in style!
RESULTS – 2pm
Div 1
Dundee City 1 (3 – 2) Paisley
A bit closer than Dundee City 1 would have liked but a win is a win! Well played David Findlay, Stephen Hogg and Andre Babin! Ed Spencer and Ross Bremner were the unlucky players this time out!
Dundee City 1 sit in 2nd place on 6 points behind Edinburgh 1 on the full 8 points!
Dundee City 2 (4 – 1) Bearsden
Nice comfortable win in the end with only Cosmo Bobak on board two losing out this time! Well played Dariusz Kosznick, Leyton Hackney, Rishi Vijayakumar J10 and Euan Murray with fine wins. This also meant Bearsden lost to both our Dundee City teams!
Dundee City 2 sit in 3rd place on 3 points with one game to go!
Div 2
Pentland Hills (2½ – 2½) Dundee City 3
Slightly disappointing result for Dundee City 3 but not a loss I suppose. I have to hold my (Ray Noble) hand up to the worst game of chess I have ever played! (Bring back Ana!) I will have nightmares about that one for a while!
Anything but what I did! 13…….0-0??????
I did have a plan of sorts before this of blockading the Isolated “D” pawn (strong or weak?), swapping off to end game and then trying to take advantage of the I.Q.P in the end game! Ah the best laid plans of mice and men!
Well played Ray Flood and Ramit Kanodia (1040) for fine wins and of course James Anderson for a battling draw with two Knights against two Bishops!
Not sure what happened to Kit McEvoy Gould (1540) as he seemed in a strong position but I think got his move order wrong maybe? Still a drawn match is not the end of the world!
Dundee City 3 sit in 4th place out of six on 3 points, 4 points adrift of Sneaky Stalematers!
Well played everybody! For all the individual results/players and standings visit the LMS (League management System page to checkout everything (link below).
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