Cathcart Club Championship 2024-5 Round 5 draw and results

January 28, 2025March 27, 2025Alistair Maxwell

The draw for round 5, scheduled for Monday 3 February 2025 is as follows:

1 Rosie Giulian (4) 1-0 Alistair Maxwell (3½)
2 Peter Knak-Watt (3) 0-1 Stuart Callison (3)
3 Donald McGregor (3) 1-0 Ryan McQuat (3)
4 Andrew MacQueen (2½) 1-0 Alex Waddell (2½)
5 Mangesh Hasabnis (2½) 0-1 Martin Myant (2½)
6 Gavin Orchin (2½) ½-½ Rupert Birch (2½)
7 Harry McKay (2) 0-1 Malcolm Tyre (2)
8 Hassan Rafiq (2) 0-1 Mike Harkins (2)
9 Allen Taylor (2) ½-½ Abhinav Datta (2)
10 Martin McGowan (2) 0-1 Peter Watson (2)
11 Alan Stewart (2) 1-0 Haren Rameshbabu (2)
12 John Topping (1½) 0-1 Aidan McFadden (1½)
13 Michael Picken (1) w/o -def Neil Corrigan (1½)
14 Astitvaa Aggarwal (1) 1-0- Ross Campbell (1)
15 Ashish Aggarwal (½) 1-0 Andrew McCulloch (1)
16 Aatish Venkatasan (0) 0-1 Aleem Azam (½)

Cathcart Club Championship 2024-5 Round 4 results

December 18, 2024January 28, 2025Alistair Maxwell

The draw scheduled for 6 January 2025 is as follows:

1 Stuart Callison (3) 0-1 (3) Rosie Giulian
2 Alistair Maxwell (2½) 1-0 (2½) Mangesh Hasabnis
3 Malcolm Tyre (2) 0-1 (2) Peter Knak-Watt
4 Allen Taylor (2) 0-1 (2) Ryan McQuat
5 Martin Myant (2) ½-½ (2) Gavin Orchin
6 Peter Watson (2) 0-1 (2) Donald McGregor
7 Rupert Birch (2) ½-½ (2) Alex Waddell
8 Aidan McFadden (1½) 0-1 (1½) Andrew MacQueen
9 Abhinav Datta (1½) ½-½ (1½) Alan Stewart
10 Michael Picken (1) 0d-1d (1) Mike Harkins
11 Andrew McCulloch (1) 0-1 (1) Hassan Rafiq
12 Neil Corrigan (2) 0-1 (1) Martin McGowan
13 Ross Campbell (1) 0-1 (1) John Topping
14 Aleem Azam (½) 0-1 (1) Harry McKay
15 Ashish Aggarwal (½) 0-1 (½) Astitvaa Aggarwal
16 Haren Rameshbabu (1½) 1-0 (0) Aatish Venkatasan

Cathcart Club Championship 2024-5 Round 3 results

November 29, 2024March 12, 2025Alistair Maxwell

The draw for round 3 scheduled for Monday 2nd December 2024 is as follows:

1 Rosie Giulian (2) 1-0 (2) Peter Knak-Watt
2 Stuart Callison (2) 1-0 (2) Malcolm Tyre
3 Alan Stewart (1½) 0-1 (1½) Alistair Maxwell
4 Alex Waddell (1½) ½-½ (1½) Martin Myant
5 Gavin Orchin (1½) ½-½ (1½) Peter Watson
6 Mike Harkins (1) 0-1 (1½) Mangesh Hasabnis
7 Hassan Rafiq (1) 0-1 (1) Allen Taylor
8 Harry McKay (1) 0-1 (1) Rupert Birch
9 Ryan McQuat (1) 1-0 (1) Michael Picken
10 Abhinav Datta (1) ½-½ (1) Aidan McFadden
11 Martin McGowan (1) 0-1 (1) Donald McGregor
12 Andrew MacQueen (½) 0-1 (1) Andrew McCulloch
13 John Topping (½) 0-1 (½) Neil Corrigan
14 Aleem Azam (0) ½-½ (0) Ashish Aggarwal
15 Aatish Venkatasan (0) 0-1 (0) Ross Campbell
16 Astitvaa Aggarwal (0) 0-1 (0) Haren Rameshbabu

Cathcart Live Gradings

November 13, 2024May 3, 2026Alistair Maxwell

The following active members have current gradings as below. Chess Scotland grades are live at 3/5/26. FIDE ratings are from 1/5/26. These will be updated at least monthly and members who achieve a live grade will be added in due course. For your own live grade go to https://www.chessscotland.com/grading/search-players NB you can only see your own calculations if you are a Chess Scotland member and if you want to join Chess Scotland got to https://www.chessscotland.com/membership/join

Surname	Forename	Live CS Grade	Live FIDE Rating	Title
Murdochy	Shivan	2066	1988
McKay	Roddy	2046	2149	IM
Giulian	Philip M	1952	2003	FM
Maxwell	Alistair	1851	2073
Tsang	Sai Kong	1803	1821
Giulian	Rosemary A	1766	1877
Myant	Martin	1757	1875
Tyre	Malcolm	1743
Watson	W Peter	1679
Harkins	Michael G	1678
Callison	J Stuart	1666
Knak-Watt	Peter	1661
MacQueen	Andrew	1650	1770
Taylor	Allen	1632
McQuat	Ryan	1616
McGregor	Donald	1566	1753
Stewart	Alan W	1525
Orchin	Gavin	1483
Hasbnis	Mangesh	1434
McFadden	Aidan	1420
Waddell	Alex	1403
Rafiq	Hassan	1376
Topping	John	1291
McKay	Harry	1289	1618 (Blitz)
Giulian	Stuart A	1275
Corrigan	Neil	1258
Datta	Abhinav	1231	1658
McCulloch	Andrew	1053	1648
Aggarwal	Astitvaa	1059
Aggarwal	Ashish	1028
Azam	Aleem	1000
Campbell	Ross	886

Cathcart Club Championship 2024-5 Round 2 results

November 1, 2024November 29, 2024Alistair Maxwell

The round 2 results were as follows:
1 Rupert Birch (1) 0-1 Rosie Giulian (1)
2 Malcolm Tyre (1) 1-0 Ryan McQuat (1)
3 Peter Knak-Watt (1) 1-0 Mike Harkins (1)
4 Aidan McFadden (1) 0-1 Stuart Callison (1)
5 Peter Watson (1) ½-½ Alex Waddell (1)
6 Mangesh Hasabnis (1) ½-½ Alan Stewart (1)
7 Alistair Maxwell (½) 1-0 Haren Rameshbabu (0)
8 Martin Myant (½) 1-0 Andrew MacQueen (½)
9 Neil Corrigan (½) 0-1 Gavin Orchin (½)
10 Allen Taylor (0) 1-0 John Topping (½)
11 Donald McGregor (0) 1-0 Aleem Azam (0)
12 Ashish Aggarwal (0) 0-1 Hassan Rafiq (0)
13 Harry McKay (0) 1-0 Aatish Venkatasan (0)
14 Michael Picken (0) 1-0 Astitvaa Aggarwal (0)
15 Andrew McCulloch (0) 1-0 Ross Campbell (0)
16 Martin McGowan (1) 0-1 Abhinav Datta (0)

(Note that one of the round 1 results was reported incorrectly and only noticed after these games were played).

Cathcart Club Championship 2024-5 Round 1 results

October 1, 2024November 29, 2024Alistair Maxwell

The resulta for round 1 were as follows:

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

Cathcart Allegro 2024

June 19, 2024August 9, 2024Alistair Maxwell

This event will take place on 10 August 2024

The Park Church, Ravenscliffe Drive, Giffnock G46 7QS

A 6 Round Open Swiss tournament for an absolute maximum of 70 players. Games will be Chess Scotland Allegro list graded and FIDE Rapidplay list rated.

Entry Fee

£15 – (Chess Scotland Members: £13)

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
The organisers reserve the right to refuse entry without assigning a reason
Take any other measures deemed necessary to ensure the smooth running of the congress
Tea, coffee and a selection of cold drinks as well as biscuits, crisps etc. will be available between 11.30 and 17.30.

The organiser is Alistair Maxwell who can be contacted by email at alistair.maxwell34@gmail.com using the title 2024 CC Allegro or text at 07790021618. All entries will be in cash on the day.

The entry list can be viewed here:

	Surname	Forename	Club	Grade	Title
1	Greet	Andrew	BH	2478	IM
2	McKinnon	Graeme	CCQP	1339
3	McKay	Harry	CC	764
4	Myant	Martin	CC	1667
5	Saemundsson	Thor	HA	1267
6	Ganesh	Krishiv	LZPO	447
7	Daniels	Misuzu	EA	921
8	Al Dakl Alla	Humam	LZ	1393
9	Al Dakl Alla	Muhammad	LZ	1619
10	Rajendran	James	ER	632
11	Patil	Om Jitendra	LZ	544
12	Skettos	Nicolas	PO	1867
13	Aitken	Thomas	TR	1311
14	Topping	John	CC	1267
15	Shields	Iain	QP	1104
16	O’Hanlon	Pat	BH	1388
17	Hay	Jack	LG
18	Vijayakumar	Rishi	CH	1925
19	Shravan	Raghu	EU
20	Graham	Sasha	GS	985
21	Munshi	Anika	PO	837
22	Forbes	Graeme	EK	1201
23	Lopez Henderson	Kyle	LZ	1230
24	Lopez Henderson	Sandy	LZ	433
25	MacQueen	Andrew	GI	1767
26	Mittal	Advik	LZ	1450
27	McGregor	Douglas	PA	1791
28	Gaikwad	Netra	LZ	312
29	Gaikwad	Reina	LZ	531
30	McCormack	Derek	PA	1791
31	Wen	Junhan	BD
32	McKenzie	Kyriakos	EW	1118
33	Gillatt	Daniel	PY	875
34	McNaught	Jordan	QP	1556
35	Thomson	Steve	CH	1152
36	McKenna	John	PAQP	1611
37	Monaghan	Mark	BH	1604
38	McGregor	Donald	CC	1424
39	McIntyre	John	PO	1576
40	Gallagher	Jack	QP
41	Warcup	Richard	ST	1472
42	Warcup	Ross	ST	1037
43	Dimitriou	Emilia	GW
44	Dunnington	Angus	CC	2322	IM
45	Ling	Adam	ER	701
46	Nield	Christopher	BDSC	1462
47	Balaji	Lochan	LZ	1380
48	Gong	Ray	LZ	425
49	Semenov	Igor	HA	1543
50	Prakash	Sumanth	LZ	1285
51	Ling	Willie	ER
52	Sharma Nath	Shaurya	LZ	474
53	Ahmed	Alistair	RS	1629
54	Blackford	Ross	DRKO	1966
55	Chintala	Niketh	LZ
56	Floros	Antonios	GI	1798
57	Sathiyamoorthy	Magizhan	NJ	820
58	Spiers	Henry	AR	718
59	McAleer	Thomas	QPBS	1092
60	Aggarwal	Astitvaa	LZGA	800
61	Prabhu	Aadith	EA	1299
62	Prabhu	Ainesh	LZ	482
63	Vaishvik Amurivalla	Sai	LZ	633
64	Keenan	Alex	HA	1633
65	Yuan	Alice	LZGA	552
66	Munshi	Aryan	PO	1728
67	Paul	Rabindra	AR	1768
68	Reynolds	Mike	EK	1480
69	Mannion	Stephen	PA	2144	IM
70	Vasiliadis	Theodoros	BA	1905
71	Railwani	Tavish	LZ	1525

Entries are now closed. If you wish to be considered for the reserve list then please email the organiser.

Cathcart Championship 2023-4 Round 7 results

March 12, 2024April 23, 2024Alistair Maxwell

1 Alan Stewart (4) 0-1 Shivan Murdochy (6)

2 Martin Myant (4) ½-½ Malcolm Tyre (4½)

3 Mike Harkins (3½) ½-½ Allen Taylor (4)

4 Rupert Birch (3) ½-½ Peter Watson (3½)

5 Aidan McFadden (3) 0-1 Gavin Orchin (4)

6 Peter Knak-Watt (3) w/o-def Michael Roger (2)

7 Harry McKay (2½) 0-1 Ryan McQuat (3½)

8 Donald McGregor (2½) 1-0 John Topping (2½)

9 Hassan Rafiq (2) 1-0 Alex Waddell (1)

10 Neil Corrigan (3) 1-0 Aleem Azam (1)

Cathcart Championship 2023-4 Round 6 results

February 29, 2024April 23, 2024Alistair Maxwell

1 Shivan Murdochy (5) 1-0 Martin Myant (4)

2 Mike Harkins (3½) 0-1 Malcolm Tyre (3½)

3 Alan Stewart (3½) ½-½ Ryan McQuat (3)

4 Aidan McFadden (3) 0-1 Allen Taylor (3)

5 Gavin Orchin (3) 1-0 Rupert Birch (3)

6 Peter Watson (2½) 1-0 Hassan Rafiq (2)

7 Michael Roger (1) 1-0 John Topping (2½)

8 Harry McKay (2) ½-½ Donald McGregor (2)

9 Peter Knak-Watt (2) 1-0 Neil Corrigan (3)

10 Aleem Azam (0) 1-0 Alex Waddell (1)

Games scheduled for Monday 4th March 2024.

Cathcart Championship 2023-4 Round 5 results

February 2, 2024March 21, 2024Alistair Maxwell

1 Rupert Birch (3) 0-1 Shivan Murdochy (4)

2 Martin Myant (3) 1-0 Gavin Orchin (3)

3 Allen Taylor (2½) ½-½ Alan Stewart (3)

4 Mike Harkins (2½) w/o – def Graeme McKinnon (2½)

5 Malcolm Tyre (2½) 1-0 Donald McGregor (2)

6 Ryan McQuat (2) 1-0 Michael Roger (1)

7 Hassan Rafiq (2) 0-1 Aidan McFadden (2)

8 Neil Corrigan (2½) ½-½ Harry McKay (1½)

9 Andy McCallum (1) w/o-def Martin Edwards (½)

10 Alex Waddell (1) 0-1 Peter Knak-Watt (1)

11 John Topping (1½) 1-0 Aleem Azam (0)

12 Peter Watson (2) ½-pt bye

Games scheduled for Monday 5th February 2024.