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

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 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)

Cathcart Club Championship 2024-5 Round 6 draw

February 26, 2025April 3, 2025Alistair Maxwell

The draw scheduled for Monday 3rd March is as follows:

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

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, 2024October 22, 2026Alistair Maxwell

The following active members have current gradings as below. Chess Scotland grades are live at 14/10/26. FIDE ratings are from 1/10/26. 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
McKay	Roddy	2103	2154	IM
Murdochy	Shivan	2072	1988
Thomson	Neil	1976	2014
Giulian	Philip M	1970	2005	FM
Maxwell	Alistair	1848	2073
Giulian	Rosemary A	1812	1832
Tsang	Sai Kong	1796	1849
Myant	Martin	1753	1875
Tyre	Malcolm	1743
Watson	W Peter	1668
Harkins	Michael G	1704
MacQueen	Andrew	1677	1770
Callison	J Stuart	1680
Knak-Watt	Peter	1662
Taylor	Allen	1632	1796 (rapid)
Marshall	Scott I	1587
McGregor	Donald	1607	1781
Stewart	Alan W	1513
Hasabnis	Mangesh	1432
McFadden	Aidan	1437
Waddell	Alex	1387
Rafiq	Hassan	1376
Topping	John	1302
Giulian	Stuart A	1273	1707 (rapid)
Corrigan	Neil	1255
Datta	Abhinav	1228	1658
Aggarwal	Astitvaa	1059
McCulloch	Andrew	1033	1648
Azam	Aleem	1001
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

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.