Dunfermline allegro league results for the 23rd of November

Both of the Dunfermline allegro teams were in action last night. The Sharks lost away at Grangemouth and the Minnows mirrored the same score by winning at home. The captains report for the Minnows is copied below. 

Minnows 11.5 - 4.5 Bruce

Tigers 11.5 - 4.5 Sharks

Minnows match report and scores

Did the Minnows indulge in spectacular play and dashing sacrifices? Well yes but just the once when Terry hit Robin with every piece that was even vaguely close to the enemy King. Other than that it was just good old plodding that won the day. And of course George’s two mighty lucky time wins which otherwise could have brought the result much closer.

Minnows 11.5-4.5 Bruce

Ian Robertson 1-0 Paul Prescott
John McBride Draw Dave Hewitt
George Webb 1-0 Robin Hayles
Terry Doherty 0-1 Walter Shaw
2.5-1.5
Ian Robertson 1-0 Walter Shaw
John McBride 1-0 Paul Prescott
George Webb Draw Dave Hewitt
Terry Doherty 1-0 Robin Hayles
3.5-0.5
Ian Robertson 1-0 Robin Hayles
John McBride Draw Walter Shaw
George Webb 1-0 Paul Prescott
Terry Doherty 0-1 Dave Hewitt
2.5-1.5
Ian Robertson 1-0 Dave Hewitt
John McBride 1-0 Robin Hayles
George Webb 1-0 Walter Shaw
Terry Doherty 0-1 Paul Prescott
3-1     

The result of last night's match is "Lions" 11.1/2 - "Sharks" 4.1/2.

The individual results are:

A. Bell 4 - Michael Roy 0

Joe Connelly 0

Peter Horne 0

Stuart Brisbane 0

I. Mason 3.1/2 - Michael Roy 0

Joe Connelly 0

Peter Horne 0

Stuart Brisbane 1/2

H. Hanlon 3 - Michael Roy 1/2

Joe Connelly 0

Peter Horne 1/2

Stuart Brisbane 0

R. Leckie 1 - Michael Roy 1

Joe Connelly 0

Peter Horne 1

Stuart Brisbane 1

Stirling A V Dunfermline A, 10th October 2011

It is not often that Stirling out grade Dunfermline on three of the boards. Dunfermline had key players missing and paid the price, losing a close match 3-2. The news on the street was that Dunfermline's board four, confused the move order in a winning position, handing the game and the match to Stirling.   10 October 2011 - Central League Division 1

Stirling A v Dunfermline A Kenny McGeoch Steve Smith Robin Hayles John Blake Dave Hewitt 1846 1670 1624 1566 1550 ½ - ½ 0 - 1 ½ - ½ 1 - 0 1 - 0 2092 1730 1618 1565 1442 Ian Robertson Michael Roy Frank Ossowski Stewart Brisbane George Webb

Dunfermline Sharks v Dunfermline Minnows result, 26/09/11

Several players made their allegro debut so match outcome was a bit of a guess.

As it turned out the Minnows new boys Iain and Terry did really well.

Result                                                    Sharks   3 - 13   Minnows

          Michael Roy 0-1 Ian Robertson 
Stewart Brisbane 1-0 Iain Sneddon 
            Peter Horne 0-1 George Webb 
       Derek Rodger 0-1 Terry Doherty 
       1-3 

           Michael Roy 1-0 Terry Doherty 
   Stewart Brisbane 0-1 Ian Robertson 
           Peter Horne 0-1 Iain Sneddon 
          Derek Rodger 0-1 George Webb 
         1-3 

             Michael Roy 1-0 George Webb 
   Stewart Brisbane 0-1 Terry Doherty 
             Peter Horne 0-1 Ian Robertson 
        Derek Rodger 0-1 Iain Sneddon 
         1-3 

            Michael Roy 0-1 Iain Sneddon 
     Stewart Brisbane 0-1 George Webb 
            Peter Horne 0-1 Terry Doherty 
         Derek Rodger 0-1 Ian Robertson 
              0-4     

Dunfermline 5-minute Knockout for 2011

The Dunfermline 5-minute Knockout for 2011 took place last night. I was too busy to 
take part, so I have copied the details below from the Dunfermline club website.

Played -- Monday 19th September

2011 Winner - Ian Robertson

	I Robertson	I Robertson	I Robertson	I Robertson
C Stewart	C Stewart
A Cleary
P Horne	P Horne	P Horne
B O'Rourke
	F Ossowski
	D Rew	D Rew	I Snedden
S Hawkins	D Rodger
D Rodger
G Webb	G Webb	I Snedden
R Murray
I Snedden	I Snedden
S Brisbane

New recruits

After the performance of the team last night, boards two, three and four have been sacked and replaced with some better players. How can we fail to win the league now!

1st match of the season, Dunfermline V Cumbernauld

A tough battle tonight, made more interesting by some absences. Cumbernauld were missing Ian Marks,while Dunfermline were missing Gavin and Jim. Garry moving to Jersey did not help Dunfermline's cause either. 


On paper Dunfermline was a little stronger, but not by much. Ian on board one was the only clear rating favourite. This game concluded very quickly in our favour, which quickly settled the nerves. Only for the nerves to be rattled soon after. Glynis was very quickly two pawns down and losing, while Stuart blew a nice position to lose early on. 


Quickly doing the maths I realised that Michael and I had to win on boards two and three. Not an easy proposition, as Michael was doing ok and then suddenly wasn't. My game was an interesting, but tough battle and it was not clear who would win. An upset was on the cards and our Captains body language gave the game away, he expected us to lose the match. 


Then late on things suddenly turned around, George played very passively to allow Glynis to blockade things and he had to concede a draw. Now 1.5/2 was needed for us to win, even so the captain and I thought that we would still lose. As Michael was worse and I expected to draw. 


Then pretty much at the same time Michael and I found winning combinations, which killed the remaining games off. David even turned down Michael's late draw offer in a forlorn attempt to rescue the match, but had to resign just a few moves later. 

Well done to Cumbernauld for giving us kittens and making it an exciting match. I am sure they will be upset that they missed their chance to beat us. 

Note: After being told that Ralph missed a win against me, I checked this out with Rybka. Who tells me that there was one opportunity on move 34. This is when I made a mistake by playing Bc4, allowing an exchange sac on c4. This was easy to miss and I did not see it either, if I had I would not had played Bc4 :) Other than that and Ralph failing to play Rc7 on move 39, this was a tough battle that was well played by Ralph.

Dunfermline V  Cumbernauld
2092 Ian Robertson   V   Stephen Kelly 1841        1-0
1752 John McBride     V   Ralph Stirrat 1717          1-0
1730 Michael Roy       V   David Johnstone 1664    1-0
1565 Stuart Brisbane V   Ronnie Wallace 1474      0-1
1306 Glynis Grant      V   George Thomson 1473 0.5-0.5
                                                                            3.5-1.5


Dunfermline white on boards one and two, Cumbernauld white on three, four and five.

Club information copied from Twitter.

fifechess John McBride 

More details can be found at the club website:integellus.co.uk/dunfermlineche… and once the season get going here at the blog: dunfermlinechess.blogspot.com

2 minutes ago 

fifechess John McBride 

Message from Jim The 5min KnockOut is is due to be played on Monday 19th September at 7:15, so another unmissable ( ) date for your diary.

5 minutes ago 

fifechess John McBride 

Message from Jim. The league fixtures for the coming season have been posted on the website, for Division 1, 2 and Allegro.

6 minutes ago 

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fifechess John McBride 

Message from Jim. This is to remind everyone that the Chess Club will restart on Monday 5th September.

7 minutes ago 

End of season tables for 2010-2011

Thanks for the efforts of Chess Scotland and Jim Webster, whose work has been reproduced here for posterity.

The tables below includes the Central League, SNCL and the various Dunfermline club competitions, with exception of the 5 min KO, as this has been delayed until September.

Central League - Division 1 Season 2010/2011

League Table

	Played	Won	Draw	Lost	Game Points	Match Points
Grangemouth	6	5	1	0	21	11
Dunfermline	6	2	2	2	16.5	6
Stirling	6	2	1	3	13.5	5
Cumbernauld	6	1	0	5	9	2

Results

		1	2	3	4	1	2	3	4
1	Cumbernauld		0.5	1.5	3		2	0	2
2	Dunfermline	4.5		2.5	2.5	3		2	2
3	Grangemouth	3.5	2.5		4	5	3		3
4	Stirling	2	2.5	1		3	3	2

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Central League - Division 2  Season 2010/2011

League Table

	Played	Won	Draw	Lost	Game Points	Match Points
Dunfermline B	8	5	2	1	26	12
Grangemouth B	8	5	1	2	21	11
Badger's Brook	8	3	3	2	21.5	9
Stirling B	8	2	2	4	16.5	6
Stirling C	8	1	0	7	15	2

Results

		1	2	3	4	5	1	2	3	4	5
1	Badger's Brook		1	2.5	4.5	3		2.5	4.5	2.5	1
2	Dunfermline B	4		2	2.5	4.5	2.5		3.5	3.5	3.5
3	Grangemouth B	2.5	3		3.5	4	0.5	1.5		3	3
4	Stirling B	0.5	2.5	1.5		3	2.5	1.5	2		3
5	Stirling C	2	0.5	1	2		4	1.5	2	2

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Central League - Allegro Season 2010/2011

League Table

	Played	Won	Draw	Lost	Game Points	Match Points
Dunfermline Minnows	5	5	0	0	58	10
Grangemouth Lions	5	4	0	1	46	8
Stirling Bruce	5	2	1	2	37.5	5
Grangemouth Tigers	5	1	1	3	36	3
Dunfermline Sharks	5	1	1	3	34.5	3
Stirling Wallace	5	0	1	4	28	1

Results

		1	2	3	4	5	6
1	Dunfermline Minnows		14	10.5	11	9.5	13
2	Dunfermline Sharks	2		7.5	10.5	6.5	8
3	Grangemouth Lions	5.5	8.5		10	11	11
4	Grangemouth Tigers	5	5.5	6		8	11.5
5	Stirling Bruce	6.5	9.5	5	8		8.5
6	Stirling Wallace	3	8	5	4.5	7.5

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Central League - Cup - 2010-2011

1st Round		Semi Final		Final		Winner
		Badger's Brook	4.5	Badger's Brook	1.5	Grangemouth
		Cumbernauld	2.5
Dunfermline	3	Grangemouth	4	Grangemouth	5.5
Grangemouth	4
		Stirling	3

Round 1	Wed 6th April	Dunfermline v Grangemouth
Semi-Final	Mon 4th April	Badger's Brook v Cumbernauld
Semi-Final	Wed 13th April	Grangemouth v Stirling
Final	Wed 4th May	Grangemouth v Badger's Brook

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Central League - U1500 Cup - 2010-2011

Semi Final		Final		Winner
Cumbernauld	2.5	Badger's Brook (board count)	3	Badger's Brook
Badger's Brook	2.5
Stirling	2	Dunfermline	2
Dunfermline	3

Semi-Final	Mon 28th March	Cumbernauld v Badger's Brook
Semi-Final	Mon 25th April	Stirling v Dunfermline
Final	Mon 2nd May	Badger's Brook v Dunfermline

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SNCL Division 1

Played at Dunfermline ending on 30/04/2011

Results compiled by Andrew Howie

SNCL Division 1 League Table

								Boards
			Matches					Played			Defaults			Score
Pos	Team	Team Name	P	W	D	L	Pts	W	D	L	W	D	L	Boards	%
1	1	Hamilton A	7	7	0	0	14	24	9	1	1	0	0	29½	84
2	4	Dundee City A	7	6	0	1	12	20	10	4	1	0	0	26	74
3	3	Kingdom Kings	7	4	0	3	8	14	8	11	1	0	1	19	54
4	2	Edinburgh West	7	2	3	2	7	11	15	9	0	0	0	18½	53
5	6	Giffnock & Clarkston A	7	1	3	3	5	9	11	15	0	0	0	14½	41
6	8	Cumbernauld	7	1	2	4	4	5	14	16	0	0	0	12	34
7	5	East Kilbride	7	1	2	4	4	5	11	17	0	0	2	10½	30
8	7	Kilmarnock	7	1	0	6	2	5	10	20	0	0	0	10	29
			56	23	10	23	56	93	88	93	3	0	3	140

SNCL Division 1 Crosstable

Team	Name	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Plyd	Boards
1	Hamilton A	X	4	4	3½	5	4	4	5	7	29½
2	Edinburgh West	1	X	3½	2	2½	2½	4½	2½	7	18½
3	Kingdom Kings	1	1½	X	1	5	3½	3½	3½	7	19
4	Dundee City A	1½	3	4	X	4½	4½	4½	4	7	26
5	East Kilbride	0	2½	0	½	X	2½	1½	3½	7	10½
6	Giffnock & Clarkston A	1	2½	1½	½	2½	X	4	2½	7	14½
7	Kilmarnock	1	½	1½	½	3½	1	X	2	7	10
8	Cumbernauld	0	2½	1½	1	1½	2½	3	X	7	12

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SNCL Division 2

Played at Dunfermline ending on 30/04/2011

Results compiled by Andrew Howie

Grading calculations last updated - 01/06/2011

SNCL Division 2 League Table

								Boards
			Matches					Played			Defaults			Score
Pos	Team	Team Name	P	W	D	L	Pts	W	D	L	W	D	L	Boards	%
1	4	Forth Valley	7	7	0	0	14	17	13	5	0	0	0	23½	67
2	5	Greenwood	7	6	0	1	12	16	9	5	5	0	0	25½	73
3	3	CS BOS 1	7	4	0	3	8	13	12	10	0	0	0	19	54
4	1	Stonehaven	7	3	2	2	8	9	11	13	2	0	0	16½	47
5	8	Edinburgh 1	7	3	1	3	7	13	12	10	0	0	0	19	54
6	6	Dumfries and District	7	2	1	4	5	8	12	12	2	0	1	16	46
7	7	Edinburgh 2	7	0	1	6	1	4	13	10	0	0	8	10½	30
8	2	Hamilton B	7	0	1	6	1	5	10	20	0	0	0	10	29
			56	25	6	25	56	85	92	85	9	0	9	142

SNCL Division 2 Crosstable

Team	Name	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Plyd	Boards
1	Stonehaven	X	4	3	1	0	2½	3½	2½	7	16½
2	Hamilton B	1	X	1	2	1½	1	2½	1	7	10
3	CS BOS 1	2	4	X	1½	2	3	3	3½	7	19
4	Forth Valley	4	3	3½	X	3	4	3	3	7	23½
5	Greenwood	5	3½	3	2	X	4	5	3	7	25½
6	Dumfries and District	2½	4	2	1	1	X	4½	1	7	16
7	Edinburgh 2	1½	2½	2	2	0	½	X	2	7	10½
8	Edinburgh 1	2½	4	1½	2	2	4	3	X	7	19

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SNCL Division 3

Played at Dumfermline ending on 30/04/2011

Results compiled by Andrew Howie

Grading calculations last updated - 01/06/2011

SNCL Division 3 League Table

								Boards
			Matches					Played			Defaults			Score
Pos	Team	Team Name	P	W	D	L	Pts	W	D	L	W	D	L	Boards	%
1	8	Edinburgh University	7	7	0	0	14	25	4	3	1	1	1	28½	81
2	7	Kingdom Knights	7	4	1	2	9	10	14	10	1	0	0	18	51
3	6	Lanark	7	3	2	2	8	17	6	11	1	0	0	21	60
4	4	Dundee City B	7	3	2	2	8	11	10	10	2	1	1	18½	53
5	1	Oban	7	4	0	3	8	12	11	12	0	0	0	17½	50
6	5	Irvine	7	1	2	4	4	9	11	14	1	0	0	15½	44
7	2	Ayrshire Armageddon	7	1	2	4	4	8	11	16	0	0	0	13½	39
8	3	Corstorphine	7	0	1	6	1	4	7	20	0	0	4	7½	21
			56	23	10	23	56	96	74	96	6	2	6	142

SNCL Division 3 Crosstable

Team	Name	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Plyd	Boards
1	Oban	X	3½	5	3	3	1½	1½	0	7	17½
2	Ayrshire Armageddon	1½	X	3	2½	2½	½	2	1½	7	13½
3	Corstorphine	0	2	X	2½	½	½	2	0	7	7½
4	Dundee City B	2	2½	2½	X	3	3½	3	2	7	18½
5	Irvine	2	2½	4½	2	X	2½	1½	½	7	15½
6	Lanark	3½	4½	4½	1½	2½	X	2½	2	7	21
7	Kingdom Knights	3½	3	3	2	3½	2½	X	½	7	18
8	Edinburgh University	5	3½	5	3	4½	3	4½	X	7	28½

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SNCL Division 4

Played at Dunfermline ending on 30/04/2011

Results compiled by Andrew Howie

Grading calculations last updated - 01/06/2011

SNCL Division 4 League Table

								Boards
			Matches					Played			Defaults			Score
Pos	Team	Team Name	P	W	D	L	Pts	W	D	L	W	D	L	Boards	%
1	6	Inverclyde	7	6	1	0	13	18	6	6	5	0	0	26	74
2	1	Pentland Hills	7	4	0	3	8	11	11	12	1	0	0	17½	50
3	5	CS BOS 2	7	3	0	4	6	14	8	13	0	0	0	18	51
4	2	Giffnock & Clarkston B	7	3	0	4	6	8	10	12	0	0	5	13	37
5	4	Ayr	7	2	1	4	5	11	5	17	0	0	2	13½	39
6	3	Aberdeen	7	2	0	5	4	12	8	14	1	0	0	17	49
			42	20	2	20	42	74	48	74	7	0	7	105

SNCL Division 4 Crosstable

Team	Name	1	2	3	4	5	6	Plyd	Boards
1	Pentland Hills	X	3	3½	5½	3	2½	7	17½
2	Giffnock & Clarkston B	2	X	3½	3	3½	1	7	13
3	Aberdeen	1½	1½	X	6½	5½	2	7	17
4	Ayr	4½	2	3½	X	1	2½	7	13½
5	CS BOS 2	2	6½	4½	4	X	1	7	18
6	Inverclyde	7½	9	3	2½	4	X	7	26

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Club Championship - 2010/2011

2011 Club Champion - Fred Ossowski

Name		Grade	1	2	3	4	5	Played	Points
1	McBride, John	1766		0.5	W	B	0.5	2	1
2	Ossowski, Fred	1702	0.5		1	1	1	4	3.5
3	Webster, Jim	1654	B	0		B	0.5	2	0.5
4	Rew, Douglas	1572	W	0	W		0	2	0
5	Brisbane, Stewart	1553	0.5	0	0.5	1		4	2

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b U1500 Championship - 2010/2011

2011 U1500 Champion - Peter Horne

Name		Grade	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Played	Points
1	Horne, Peter	1407	X	1	.5	V	1	1	1	1	1	1	8	7.5
2	O'Rourke, Bryan	1291	0	X	1	1	0	1	1		1	1	8	6
3	Grant, Glynis	1267	.5	0	X	1	.5	.5	1	1	1	.5	9	6
4	Stewart, Charlie	1152	V	0	0	X	V	0	V	V	V	V	3	0
5	Doherty, Terry	1297	0	1	.5	V	X	.5	1	1		1	7	5
6	Newton, Calum	0	0	0	.5	1	.5	X	.5	1	1	0	9	4.5
7	Connelly, Joe	955	0	0	0	V	0	.5	X	1	0	0	8	1.5
8	Murray, Robin	610	0		0	V	0	0	0	X	1	0	7	1
9	Cleary, Andrew	0	0	0	0	V		0	1	0	X		6	1
10	Rodger, Derek	1350	0	0	.5	V	0	1	1	1		X	7	3.5

U1500 Championship Grading Performance table
results to : 16th April 2011

									Grading Performance
	Name				Grade	PNUM	Pts	Plyd	Opps	Act	Plyd	Perf
	Horne, Peter				1407	9311	7½	8	1203	5½	6	1597
	O`Rourke, Bryan				1291	8806	6	8	1242	4	6	1364
	Grant, Glynis				1267	4166	6	8	1242	4½	7	1298
	Doherty, Terry				1297	15068	5	7	1199	4½	6	1392
	Newton, Calum				0	21930	4½	9	1169	3½	8	1127
	Rodger, Derek				1350	5835	3½	7	1199	2½	6	1138
	Connelly, Joe				955	22569	1½	8	1195	1	6	915
	Cleary, Andrew				0	14765	1	6	1111	1	5	870
	Murray, Robin				608	13720	1	7	1002	0	5	602
	Stewart, Charlie				1152	18615	0	3	1279	0	2	879

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Club Allegro Championship - 2010/2011

2011 Allegro Winner - Jim Webster

Name		Grade	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	Played	Points
1	Saxton, G	1874		-	0	1										2	1
2	Shabgard, F	0	-		-	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	0
3	Webster, J	1652	1	-		1	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	11	10
4	Ossowski, F	1615	0	1	0		0		0	1	1		1	1	1	10	6
5	Brisbane, S	1555		1	1	1		.5	0	.5	1	1	1	1	1	11	9
6	Webb, G	1520		1	0		.5						1			4	2.5
7	Horne, P	1343		-	0	1	1				1	1	1	1	1	8	7
8	Rodger, D	1350		-	0	0	.5						1			4	1.5
9	Newton, C	1009		-	0	0	0		0			0	1	1	1	8	3
10	Doherty, T	1317		-	0		0		0		1		1	1		6	3
11	Connelly, J	842		-	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			1	1	10	2
12	Cleary, A	700		-	0	0	0		0		0	0	0		0	8	0
13	Murray, R	587		-	0	0	0		0		0		0	1		7	1

Allegro Grading Performance table
results to : 12th May 2011

									Grading Performance
Pool	Name				Grade	PNUM	Pts	Plyd	Opps	Act	Plyd	Perf
3	Webster, Jim J				1652	6428	10	11	1414	10	11	1799
5	Brisbane, W Stewart				1555	3281	9	11	1342	8	10	1583
7	Horne, Peter				1343	9311	7	8	1260	7	8	1592
4	Ossowski, Francis G				1615	5557	6	10	1401	5	9	1440
10	Doherty, Terry				1317	15068	3	6	1249	3	6	1249
9	Newton, Calum				1009	21930	3	8	1130	3	8	1039
6	Webb, George				1520	9323	2.5	4	1442	1.5	3	1442
11	Connelly, Joe				842	22569	2	10	1109	2	10	868
8	Rodger, Derek				1350	5835	1.5	4	1443	1.5	4	1352
1	Saxton, Gavin				1847	8807	1	2	1634	1	2	1634
13	Murray, Robin				587	13720	1	7	925	1	7	622
2	Shabgard, Fraidon				0	1650	0	3	1563	0	3	1163
12	Cleary, Andrew				700	14765	0	8	1063	0	8	603

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