Cathcart Allegro 2026

May 30, 2026June 30, 2026Alistair Maxwell

This event will take place on 8 August 2026

The Park Church, Ravenscliffe Drive, Giffnock G46 7QS

A 6 Round Open Swiss tournament for 64 players approx. Games will be Chess Scotland Allegro list graded and FIDE Rapidplay list rated.

Entry Fee

£16 – (Chess Scotland Members: £14)

The Chess Scotland discount is only applicable if you have current Chess Scotland membership.

1st Prize £200

2nd Prize £100

3rd Prize £50

There were also be a minimum of 3 grading prizes of £40 assuming the maximum entry.

Playing Sessions

Round Start Time

1 12.00

2 13.05

3 14.10

4 15.15

5 16.20

6 17.25

Time Control

15 mins plus 10 sec increments

Grading

Players should use their live Chess Scotland Allegro grading. If they do not have one then a live Chess Scotland grade will be used. They must also have a FIDE identification number. If you do not have one please see https://www.chessscotland.com/grading/information-for-event-organisers/fide-id-operating-procedure/ for information on how to obtain one.

Conditions of Entry

The organisers reserve the right to:

Increase or decrease prize money
Refuse entry without assigning a reason
Take any other measures deemed necessary to ensure the smooth running of the tournament

Tea, coffee and a selection of cold drinks as well as biscuits, crisps etc. will be available between 11.30 and 17.30.

Entries received after August 5 are subject to a £5 late fee and no entries will be accepted on the day.

The organiser is Alistair Maxwell who can be contacted by email at alistair.maxwell34@gmail.com using the title 2026 CC Allegro or text at 07790021618. All entries will be in cash on the day.

Entrants so far:

	Surname	Forename	Club	Grade	Title
1	Saemundsson	Thor	HA
2	McAleer	Thomas	GW
3	Childs	Robert	HA
4	Queen	Ewan	HA
5	Thurtell	Craig	SP
6	Wimalachandra	RDMCS	HA
7	Taylor	Andy	ED
8	Greet	Andrew	BH		IM
9	Keenan	Alex	HA
10	Yip	Oscar	PW
11	Yip	Atticus	PW
12	Nayyar	Aarvin	LZ
13	Gong	Ray	LZ
14	Al Dakl Alla	Humam	LZ
15	Al Dakl Alla	Maria	LZ
16	Al Dakl Alla	Muhammad	LZ
17	Raghavendran	Aaradhana	LZ
18	Walker	Finlay	HA
19	Lee	Wayne	LZ
20	Clarke	Oscar	LK
21	Semenov	Igor	HA
22	Pawar	Arjun	LZ
23	Leydon	Ryan	SP
24	Dileep	Tejas	EA
25	McIntyre	John	PO
26	Maguire	Kevin	PY
27	Revill	Roman	LZ
28	Lee	Oliver	LZ
29	Paul	Rabindra	AR
30	Prakash	Sumanth	LZ
31	Chauhan	Aryan	LZ
31	McConnachie	Adam	LZ
33	McConnachie	John	LZ
34	Datta	Abhinav	CC
35	Taylor	Allen	CC
36	MacQueen	Andrew	CC
37	McGregor	Donald	CC
38	McGregor	Douglas	PO
39	Giulian	Stuart	CC
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Cathcart Championship 2025-6 Final Round draw & results

April 9, 2026April 28, 2026Alistair Maxwell

The draw for the final round scheduled for Monday 13th April is as follows:

1 Shivan Murdochy (5½) 1-0 Peter Watson (4½)
2 Donald McGregor (4½) ½-½ Martin Myant (5)
3 Malcolm Tyre (4) 1-0 Peter Knak-Watt (4½)
4 Andrew MacQueen (4) 0-1 Allen Taylor (4)
5 Stuart Callison (4) def-w/o Rosie Giulian (3½)
6 Alan Stewart (3) 0-1 Ryan McQuat (2)
7 John Topping (3) ½-½ 3 Mangesh Hasabnis (3)
8 Stuart Giulian (2½) ½-½ Harry McKay (2½)
9 Andrew McCulloch (2) 0-1 Abhinav Datta (2½)
10 Aleem Azam (2) w/o-def Andrei Oprea (2½)
11 Hassan Rafiq (3) def-w/o Astitvaa Aggarwal (1½)
12 Ashish Aggarwal (1½) 0-1 Alex Waddell (1½)
13 Neil Corrigan (1) ½-½ Abhinava Kampli

Cathcart Championship 2025-6 Round 6 draw & results

February 24, 2026April 27, 2026Alistair Maxwell

The draw for Round 6 scheduled for Monday 2nd March is as follows:

1 Peter Knak-Watt (4½) 0-1 Shivan Murdochy (4½)
2 Martin Myant (4½) ½-½ Peter Watson (4)
3 Allen Taylor (3½) ½-½ Tyre (3½)
4 Mangesh Hasabnis (3) 0-1 Donald McGregor (3½)
5 Ralph Cooke (3) 0-1 Stuart Callison (4)
6 Rosie Giulian (2½) – Alan Stewart (3) ppd
7 Andrew MacQueen (3) 1-0 John Topping (3)
8 Mike Harkins (2½) ½-½ Andrei Oprea (2)
9 Ryan McQuat (2) def-w/o Hassan Rafiq (2) ppd
10 Alex Waddell (1) ½-½ Stuart Giulian (2)
11 Abhinav Datta (2) ½-½ Harry McKay (2)
12 Aleem Azam (1) 1-0 Oliver Birrell (1)
13 Astitvaa Aggarwal (1) ½-½ Ashish Aggarwal (1)
14 Andrew McCulloch (1) 1-0 Neil Corrigan (1)

Cathcart Championship 2025-6 Round 5 results

January 27, 2026March 26, 2026Alistair Maxwell

The draw scheduled for Monday 2nd February is as follows:

1 Shivan Murdochy (4) ½-½ Martin Myant (4)
2 Peter Knak-Watt (3½) 1-0 Rosie Giulian (2½)
3 Malcolm Tyre (3) ½-½ Donald McGregor (3)
4 Peter Watson (3) 1-0 Mangesh Hasabnis (3)
5 Allen Taylor (3) ½-½ Mike Harkins (2)
6 Stuart Callison (2) 1-0 Ryan McQuat (2)
7 Harry McKay (2) 0-1 Andrew MacQueen (2)
8 Hassan Rafiq (2) 0-1 Alan Stewart (2)
9 Andrei Oprea (1) 1-0 Abhinav Datta (2)
10 Astitvaa Aggarwal (1) 0-1 John Topping (2)
11 Neil Corrigan (0) 1-0 Alex Waddell (1)
12 Stuart Giulian (1) 1-0 Andrew McCulloch (1)
13 Oliver Birrell (1) 0-1 Ralph Cooke (2)
14 Ashish Aggarwal (0) 1-0 Aleem Azam (1)

Cathcart Championship 2025-6 Round 4 results

January 4, 2026March 26, 2026Alistair Maxwell

The draw scheduled for 5 January 2026 is as follows:

1 Donald McGregor (3) 0-1 Shivan Murdochy (3)
2 Rosie Giulian (2) ½-½ Peter Watson (2½)
3 Mike Harkins (2) 0-1 Martin Myant (3)
4 Ryan McQuat (2) 0-1 Malcolm Tyre (2)
5 Stuart Callison (2) 0-1 Allen Taylor (2)
6 Andrew MacQueen (2) 0-1 Peter Knak-Watt (2½)
7 Alex Waddell (1) 0-1 Mangesh Hasabnis (2)
8 Alan Stewart (1) 1-0 Neil Corrigan (0)
9 Ralph Cooke (2) def-w/o Harry McKay (1)
10 Hassan Rafiq (1) w/o-def Oliver Birrell (1)
11 Abhinav Datta (1) 1-0 Stuart Giulian (1)
12 John Topping (1) def-w/o Andrei Opera (1)
13 Aleem Azam (0) 1-0 Astitvaa Aggarwal (1)
14 Andrew McCulloch (0) 1-0 Ashish Aggarwal (0)

Cathcart Championship 2025-6 Round 3 results

November 24, 2025March 16, 2026Alistair Maxwell

The draw for round 3 scheduled for 1 December 2025 is as follows:

1 Shivan Murdochy (2) 1-0 Andrew MacQueen (2)
2 Martin Myant (2) 1-0 Rosie Giulian (2)
3 Peter Watson (2) ½-½ Mike Harkins (1½)
4 Donald McGregor (2) 1-0 Alan Stewart (1)
5 Malcolm Tyre (1) 1-0 Alex Waddell (1)
6 Andrei Oprea (1) 0-1 Stuart Callison (1)
7 Allen Taylor (1) 1-0 Harry McKay (1)
8 Peter Knak-Watt (1½) 1-0 Hassan Rafiq (1)
9 Ryan McQuat (1) 1-0 John Topping (1)
10 Mangesh Hasabnis (1) 1-0 Oliver Birrell (1)
11 Neil Corrigan (0) 0-1 Ralph Cooke (1)
12 Stuart Giulian (0) 1-0 Aleem Azam (0)
13 Ashish Aggarwal (0) 0-1 Abhinav Datta (0)
14 Astitvaa Aggarwal (0) 1-0 Andrew Mcculloch (0)

Cathcart Championship 2025-6 Round 2 results

October 30, 2025February 17, 2026Alistair Maxwell

The results for round 2 are as follows:

1 Alan Stewart (1) 0-1 Shivan Murdochy (1)
2 Rosie Giulian (1) 1-0 Allen Taylor (1)
3 Mike Harkins (1) ½-½ Peter Knak-Watt (1)
4 Hassan Rafiq (1) 0-1 Martin Myant (1)
5 Stuart Callison (1) 0-1 Donald McGregor (1)
6 Oliver Birrell (1) 0-1 Peter Watson (1)
7 Andrew MacQueen (1) 1-0 Andrei Oprea (1)
8 Abhinav Datta (0) 0-1 Malcolm Tyre (0)
9 Aleem Azam (0) 0-1 Ryan McQuat (0)
10 Mangesh Hasabnis (0) 1-0 Neil Corrigan (0)
11 Alex Waddell (0) 1-0 Andrew McCulloch (0)
12 Harry McKay (0) 1-0 Astitvaa Aggarwal (0)
13 Ralph Cooke (0) 1-0 Stuart Giulian (0)
14 John Topping (0) 1-0 Ashish Aggarwal (0)

Cathcart Championship 2025-6 Round 1 results

October 1, 2025February 17, 2026Alistair Maxwell

The results for round 1 are as follows:

1 Shivan Murdochy 1-0 Alex Waddell
2 Harry McKay 0-1 Rosie Giulian
3 Malcolm Tyre 0-1 Hassan Rafiq
4 Stuart Giulian 0-1 Mike Harkins
5 Martin Myant 1-0 John Topping
6 Neil Corrigan 0-1 Stuart Callison
7 Peter Watson 1-0 Abhinav Datta
8 Andrew Mcculloch 0-1 Andrew MacQueen
9 Allen Taylor 1-0 Aleem Azam
10 Ashish Aggarwal 0-1 Alan Stewart
11 Peter Knak-Watt 0-1 Astitvaa Aggarwal
12 Oliver Birrell w/o-def Ryan McQuat
13 Donald McGregor 1-0 Ralph Cooke
14 Andrei Oprea 1-0 Mangesh Hasabnis

Cathcart Allegro 2025

May 23, 2025August 9, 2025Alistair Maxwell

	Surname	Forename	Club	Grade	Title
1	Greet	Andrew	BH	2442	IM
2	Thomson	Neil		1975
3	Dickson	Rhona	PA	1001
4	Maguire	Kevin	PA	1785
5	Madhavan	Sanjith	EK	2006
6	McAleer	Thomas	QP	1105
7	Yip	Atticus	PW	1632
8	Yip	Oscar	PW	1509
9	Saemundsson	Thor	HA	1275
10	Hannah	Mya Louise	HA
11	Daniels	Misuzu	EA	1025
12	Ganesh	Krishiv	PO	1063
13	Datta	Abhinav	CC	1112
14	McQuat	Ryan	CC	1576
15	McKay	Harry	CC	802
16	Lopez Henderson	Kyle	SP	1680
17	Topping	John	CC	1206
18	Clark	Eve	PY	1494
19	Myant	Martin	CC	1698
20	Dimitriou	Emilia	HA	1239
21	Balaji	Lochan	LZ	1338
22	Yuan	Alice	LZ	948
23	Chintala	Niketh	LZ	503
24	Prakash	Sumanth	LZ	1308
25	Lee	Wayne	LZ	1229
26	Fraser	Matthew	PA	943
27	Pawar	Arjun	LZ	797
28	Knight	Bruce		1315
29	Cotton	Chris	BD	1143
30	Shao	Ranxi Rex	BD	1858
31	Moakler	Joseph	PY	1495
32	Monaghan	Mark	BH	1632
33	McKay	Jonathan	SC	1902
34	Childs	Robert	PA	1351
35	Burnett	Walter	WD	1831
36	Maxwell	Stephen	RS	1286
37	Ahmed	Alistair	RS	1584
38	Sathiyamoorty	Magizhan	NJ	967
39	Hudson	Alistair	PY	1310
40	Barnwal	Krisha	LZ	550
41	Exposito	Antonio	QP	1008
42	Satyavolu	Yashas	LZ	739
43	Bozinakis	Pavlos	PO	2226
44	Kaur	Anaahat	LZ	389
45	Boddapaty	Amulya	LZ	805
46	MacQueen	Andrew	CC	1749
47	Keenan	Alex	HA	1680
48	Lindsay	Norman	GM	1634
49	Blackford	Ross	DR	1996
50	Krishna Kumar	Rohit	SB
51	Gunn-Russell	Charles	CS	1778
52	Bennett	William	BS	1993
53	Murray	Frankie	EK	1432
54	McCloskey	Gregor	DL	1372
55	Bell	Euan	DL	1404
56	McGill	Ryan	QP	1115
57	Carrapico	Joao	QP	1355
58	Shrivastava	Shivansh	LZ	555
59	Vasiliadis	Theodoros	BA	1924
60	Fallman	Jonathan	ED	1538
61	Pujante Martinez	Rafael	ESP	1875
62	Adam	Michael	BA	1567
63	Semenov	Igor	HA	1551
64	McLellan	Ally	QP	1252
65	McIntyre	John	PO	1455
66	Burns	Marianne	QP	1083
67	McCusker	Andrew	HA	1944
68	McCusker	Kirsty	HA	1412

This event will take place on 9 August 2025

The Park Church, Ravenscliffe Drive, Giffnock G46 7QS

A 7 Round Open Swiss tournament for approximately 64 players. Games will be Chess Scotland Allegro list graded and FIDE Rapidplay list rated.

Entry Fee

£16 – (Chess Scotland Members: £14)

The Chess Scotland discount is only applicable if you have current Chess Scotland membership.

1st Prize £200

2nd Prize £100

3rd Prize £50

There were also be a minimum of 3 grading prizes of £40 assuming the maximum entry.

Playing Sessions

Round Start Time

1 12.00

2 12.55

3 13.50

4 14.45

5 15.40

6 16.35

7 17.30

Time Control

10 mins plus 10 sec increments

Grading

Conditions of Entry

The organisers reserve the right to:

Increase or decrease prize money
Refuse entry without assigning a reason
Take any other measures deemed necessary to ensure the smooth running of the tournament

Tea, coffee and a selection of cold drinks as well as biscuits, crisps etc. will be available between 11.30 and 17.30.

Entries received after August 6 are subject to a £5 late fee and no entries will be accepted on the day.

The organiser is Alistair Maxwell who can be contacted by email at alistair.maxwell34@gmail.com using the title 2025 CC Allegro or text at 07790021618. All entries will be in cash on the day.

Entrants so far:

We have reached the maximum entry possible so will now operate a waiting list in case of call offs. Please email me if you would like to be considered.
Thanks, Alistair Maxwell

Cathcart Club Championship 2024-5 Final results

April 2, 2025May 23, 2025Alistair Maxwell

The results for the final rounds were follows:

1 Rosie Giulian (5½) ½-½ Peter Watson (4)
2 Stuart Callison (5) 1-0 Ryan McQuat (4)
3 Mike Harkins (4) 0-1 Malcolm Tyre (4)
4 Martin Myant (4) ½-½ Peter Knak-Watt (4)
5 Aidan McFadden (3½) 1-0 Donald McGregor (4)
6 Andrew MacQueen (3½) 1-0 Abhinav Datta (3½)
7 Gavin Orchin (3) void Mangesh Hasabnis (3½)
8 Alan Stewart (3) ½-½ Rupert Birch (3)
9 Harry McKay (3) 0-1 Alex Waddell (2½)
10 Allen Taylor (2½) 1-0 Astitvaa Aggarwal (2½)
11 Neil Corrigan (2½) 1-0 Ashish Aggarwal (2½)
12 Martin McGowan (2½) ½-½ Aleem Azam (2)
13 Hassan Rafiq (2) w/o-def Aatish Venkatasan (1)
14 John Topping(2) void Andrew McCulloch (1)
15 Ross Campbell (1) w/o-def Haren Rameshbabu (2)