Badgers Brook vs Stirling
Not sure what the score was. We were winning 2-0 when I left.
SJC Under 10 Champion - James Hartman
After winning the SJC U9 Championship yesterday, today James went on to win the SJC U10 Championship with another perfect score of 7/7; including wins against the two top seeds rated 1184 and 880. This makes him the Scottish U9 and U10 Champion. ...
SJC Under 9 Champion - James Hartman
Today James won the Scottish Junior Chess (U9) Championship with an emphatic score of 7 wins from 7 games. Tomorrow he plays in the SJC (U10) Championship. Fantastic result!
Quadrathlon
On Saturday, Steven completed a Quadrathlon with his training partner - Heather - for charity. They raised over £1700 for Mary's Meals and Mercy Corps. The event had four stages, as follows: Swim - 1.35k (0.8 miles) to North side of Loch Tay Ru...
Knockout Cup Final
Unfortunately a loss, but hard fought nonetheless. Badgers Brook 2.5 - 4.5 Dunfermline White Mark Cooke 0.5 Ian Robertson Kenny McGeoch 0.5 John McBride Jonathan Rowney 0-1 Iain Sneddon Andrew McHarg 1-0 Gavin Saxton Steven McHarg...
Edinburgh Allegro League
The final game of the Edinburgh Allegro League was played last night, and Badgers Brook came within half a board point of first place. Four of the five teams in contention, including Badgers Brook lost their final game 1.5 -2.5. This meant that ...
Badgers Brook Make Edinburgh Premier League Play-off
Edinburgh 3 beat Pentland Hills 5 - 0 in the final Edinburgh division 1 league match on Wednesday. They needed to win by 6 - 0, as this was the only score that would prevent Badgers Brook from securing the play-off position for the Edinburgh Prem...
Badgers Brook 1 vs Civil Service 1
We lost 4-2. Unlucky guys. D.Will lost on b1 K.McGeoch drew on b2 J.Rowney lost on b3 I drew on b4 J.Smith won on b5 D.McGilvary lost on b6 I'll need to double check my calculations, but I think this means that our rivals need to win 6-0 ...
Badgers Brook 1 vs Edinburgh West 1
Kenny McGeoch lost quickly on board 1. Jonathan lost an epic on board 2 (possibly missing a win?) I drew on 3. Mark drew on 4 in a tight Rook and pawn endgame. Dave McG lost on 5 in what looked a close game. Kenny Aiston drew on 6. Final sco...
Badgers Brook vs Civil Service 4-2
Well done guys...
Badgers Brook 1 (4 - 2) Pentland Hills 1
Wins for me and John Smith. Draws for Mark Cooke and Kenny McGeoch. Douglas Will lost and our opponents defaulted board 6. Well done guys.
Badgers Brook 1 vs Edinburgh 3
Badgers Brook won 5-1, with Kenny McGeoch the only one losing. M.Cooke (1922) bt C.McIntee (1724) D.Will (1858) bt L.McGregor (1681) K.McGeoch (1839) lst to C.Hutchison (1643) A.McHarg (1723) bt S.Suvarna (u/g) J.Smith (1697) bt C.McGilvary (...
Edinburgh West 1 vs Badgers Brook 1
2242 Joe Redpath 1-0 Douglas Will 1858 2173 Jonathan Grant 1-0 Kenny McGeoch 1839 1884 Duncan Walker 0.5 Jonathan Rowney 1821 1837 Ian McLean 1-0 Andrew McHarg 1723 1799 Alistair Campbell 0.5 John Smith 1697 1689 Martin Robinson 1-0 Stuart Ward 16...
Dunfermline 2.5 - 2.5 Badgers Brook
Well done guys - we were outgraded.
Lanark Open Rnd1
Both Steven and I won. My Game:
Badgers Brook - New Published Grades
The grades have been published tonight and I have updated the web system with the new season. Our new official published grades are as follows: REGULAR: NatRankClubRank Pnum Title Surname ForenameMainClubQtyGamesStat PublishedGrade LiveGrade Gra...
Club Championship 2011
Congratulations to Peter Docherty on becoming the club champion with a score of 5.5 Congratulations to David Marshall who is the runner-up with a score of 5 Well done to everyone who took part. I have submitted the results for grading and they s...
Edinburgh Fide Open Rounds 5-8
Well that's the tournament over and the last half was better for me than the first. Round 5 vs Chris McIntee was very tight. I found a tactic which worked very well in a situation where I thought I was in trouble. After sacrificing a Bishop and t...
Edinburgh Fide Open Rounds 1-4
Well the first three rounds didn't end too well for me, but I won round 4! =D Round 1 vs Jonny Scott was fairly tight until he unleashed a pretty remarkable attack out of nowhere (at least from my perspective). He can't have calculated all of it ...
GM Training Seminar
Over the last four days I have attended a training seminar in Glasgow with GM Boris Avrukh of Israel. Graded over 2600 and having been involved in training former world Champion Vladimir Kramnik he is clearly someone who knows a thing or two about...
Summer Cup vs Lasswade
Unlucky guys, we lost 4.5 - 4 in total (after handicap). My game below:
Corstorphine vs Badgers Brook
Corstorphine 1 - 5 Badgers Brook Well played guys, this earns us a promotion to Division 2!
Edinburgh Congress
Update: Steven won the Knights with 4.5 (bye in round 1 plus 4 wins). £110 Pete scored 2.5 in the Bishops event. I scored 1 in the Premier. --------------------------------------------- My Games so far. A bit disapointing because I feel like ...
Summer Cup
The snow that we had at the weekend can only mean one thing... yes it's Summer Cup time. This is a competition that we traditional do well in, and given success of our teams this season, I am hopeful that we can have a good run in the Cup / Plate...
Badgers Brook 5.5 vs 0.5 Bank of Scotland
Well done everyone! A.McHarg 1 S.Ward 1 G.Kerr 0.5 K.Aiston 1 D.Marshall 1 R.Liddle 1
