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) ppd (1) Donald McGregor
12 Andrew MacQueen (½) ppd (1) Andrew McCulloch
13 John Topping (½) ppd (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) ppd (0) Haren Rameshbabu

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

70^th Anniversary Cathcart CC Allegro – 26 August 2023

The Park Church, Ravenscliffe Drive, Giffnock G46 7QS

A 6 Round Open Swiss tournament

1st Prize	£200 + The Stan Beaton Memorial Trophy
2nd Prize	£100
3rd Prize	£50
Grading Prizes	3 Grading Prizes

Time Control 15 mins plus 10 sec increments

The final entry list was as follows:

	Surname	Forename	Club	Grade	Title
1	Topping	John	CC	1313
2	Greet	Andrew	BD	2486	IM
3	Saemundsson	Thor	HA	1308
4	Malhotra	Vedant	LZ	730
5	McKenna	John	PA	1620
6	McKay	Harry	GI	633
7	Edwards	Martin	CC	1664
8	Gillatt	Daniel
9	Dickson	Rhona	PA	1063
10	Ahmed	Alistair	RE	1624
11	Myant	Martin	CC	1662
12	McGregor	Donald	CC	1427
13	Marks	Ian	SP	1793
14	MacQueen	Andrew	GI	1762
15	Reza Salgado	Marcos	ESP	1827
16	Colston	Rob	BD	1970
17	McIntyre	John	PO	1668
18	Ganesh	Krishiv	PO	396
19	Paul	Rabindra	AR	1777
20	Giulian	Rosie	GI	1820
21	Giulian	Philip	GI	2124	FM
22	McGregor	Douglas	PA	1897
23	Murphy	Morgan	WS
24	Rankine	Derek	QP	1073
25	Graham	Sasha	GS	1116
26	McNaught	Jordan	QP	1527
27	Vadalia	Jainill	PO	1666
28	Prakash	Sumanth	LZ	839
29	Gaikwad	Netra	LZ	144
30	Gaikwad	Reina	LZ	151
31	Keenan	Alex	HA	1675
32	Dak	Arnav	SP	856
33	Bhopal	Raj	ED	1814
34	McGill	Ryan	QP	994
35	Patterson	Cooper	GD	1610
36	McAleer	Thomas	QP
37	McCrosson	Rhys	QP	1369
38	Thomas	Phil	RS	1794
39	Shields	Iain	PO	1145
40	Srivastava	Aditya	PO	1579
41	McKinnon	Graeme	CC	1339
42	McCulloch	Andrew	GI	1117
43	McCulloch	Caitlin	QP	1121
44	Semenov	Igor	HA	1399
45	Dholakia	Kanish	PO	799
46	Martin	Ronald	QP	1023
47	Conway	Ciaran	TR
48	McCormack	Derek	PA	1753
49	Garg	Dhruv	GW	310
50	Verma	Abhi	LZ	923
51	Al Dakl Alla	Muhammad	LZ	1586
52	Al Dakl Alla	Humam	LZ	1301
53	Chadwick	Patrick
54	Bhatla	Revanta	EN	750

Prizewinners:

1^st Andrew Greet (Bearsden) 5.5/6; 2^nd= Rob Colston (Bearsden), Derek McCormack (Paisley), Marcos Reza Salgado (Spain) 5/6

Grading Prizes:1400-1700 – Muhammad Al Dakl Alla (Lenzie) 4.5/6; 1000-1400 – Igor Semenov (Hamilton), Rhys McCrosson (Queen’s Park) ; Under 1000: Ryan McGill (Queen’s Park), Abhi Verma ( Lenzie), Kanish Dholakia (Phones), Harry McKay 3/6.

It is with great sadness that Cathcart Chess Club announces the passing of its longest serving member Stan Beaton. Stan became a member in the year that the club was founded in 1953 and has been a member ever since becoming not only its first club champion in 1955 but an honorary member some time ago. The club passes on its condolences to his wife Eileen and all his family.

The funeral will take place at the Linn Crematorium, Glasgow at 1pm on Friday 8 April 2022. There will be a function afterwards at the Redhurst Hotel in Eastwoodmains Road.

	Name	Grade	R1	Res	R2	Res	R3	Res	R4	Res	R5	Res	R6	Res	R7	Res	Total
1	Mike Harkins	1922	W11	1	B6	0.5	W2	0.5	B14	1	W4	0.5	B3	0.5	W5	1	5
2	Ian Marks	1882	B12	1	W20	0.5	B1	0.5	W15	1	B5	1	W7	0	B6	1	5
3	Malcolm Tyre	1840	W13	1	W/O	1	B5	0	W12	1	B6	0.5	W1	0.5	B7	1	5
4	Peter Watson	1772	B14	1	W10	1	B7	0.5	W5	0.5	B1	0.5	W6	0.5	W20	1	5
5	Allen Taylor	1724	W15	1	B9	1	W3	1	B4	0.5	W2	0	B20	0.5	B1	0	4
6	Alan Stewart	1687	B16	1	W1	0.5	B20	1	W7	0.5	W3	0.5	B4	0.5	W2	0	4
7	Paulius Serelis	1611	W17	1	B11	1	W4	0.5	B6	0.5	W9	1	B2	1	W3	0	5
8	David Congalton	1488	DEF	0	DEF	0	W/D	0		0		0		0		0	0
9	Mac McKenzie	1388	W/O	1	W5	0	B18	1	W20	0.5	B7	0	W12	0.5	B	0	3
10	Alex Waddell	1365	W22	1	B4	0	W14	0	B16	1	B15	0.5	W11	0.5	B12	0	3
11	Jim Fay	1319	B1	0	W7	0	B21	1	W18	0.5	W22	1	B10	0.5	W	0.5	3.5
12	Hassan Rafiq	1288	W2	0	B17	1	W16	1	B3	0	W14	0.5	B9	0.5	W10	1	4
13	Neil Corrigan	1279	B3	0	W18	1	B15	0	W17	1	B20	0	B21	1	W	1	4
14	James Cairns	1268	W4	0	B21	1	B10	1	W1	0	B12	0.5	W15	1	B11	0.5	4
15	John Topping	1223	B5	0	W10	1	W13	1	B2	0	W10	0.5	B14	0	W21	1	3.5
16	Stan Beaton	1145	W6	0	B22	1	B12	0	W10	0	B18	1	DEF	0	W/D	0	2
17	Peter Lavelle	1062	B7	0	W12	0	B22	1	B13	0	W21	0	W/O	1	W18	1	3
18	Aleem Azam	1049	W/O	1	B13	0	W9	0	B11	0.5	W16	0	W22	1	B17	0	2.5
19	Claudius Manyundwa	954	DEF	0	DEF	0	W/D	0		0		0		0		0	0
20	Michael Roger	u/g	W21	1	B2	0.5	W6	0	B9	0.5	W13	1	W5	0.5	B	0	3.5
21	Andy McCallum	865	B20	0	W14	0	W11	0	B22	1	B17	1	W13	0	B15	0	2
22	Cameron Smith	u/g	B10	0	W16	0	W17	0	W21	0	B11	0	B18	0	BYE	1	1

The draw for round 7 is as follows:

1 Paulius Serelis (5) 0-1 Malcolm Tyre (4)

2 Mike Harkins (4) 1-0 Allen Taylor (4)

3 Alan Stewart (4) 0-1 Ian Marks (4)

4 Peter Watson (4) 1-0 Michael Roger (3.5)

5 Jim Fay (3) draw James Cairns (3.5)

6 Neil Corrigan (3) 1-0 Mac McKenzie (3)

7 Hassan Rafiq (3) 1-0 Alex Waddell (3)

8 John Topping (2.5) 1-0 Andy McCallum (2)

9 Peter Lavelle (2) 1-0 Aleem Azam (2.5)

Cameron Smith (0) 1pt bye

Stan Beaton has withdrawn.

The crosstable can be viewed here