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2023-24 Club Championship Final Results

Congratulations to Jonathan McKay, winner of the 2023-24 club championship, with a perfect score! Standings are below (ratings are chess.com rapid ratings at beginning of tournament):

NameRatingPts
1Jonathan McKay21206
2Edward Ferry19965
3Norman Lindsay19224
4Sam Collins17043
5Ruairidh McKay16453
6Jamie Palmer15483
7David Reid17302.5
8Sean Groundwater14382.5
9Jim Murray14412
9Joseph Weir12162
11Jim Mearns14722
12Toby Knowles14791

Club Championship Round 2 pairings

Here are the pairings for Round 2 of the Club Championship – this can be played OTP tomorrow night (22nd Feb) at the club – otherwise, can you play your match online by Wednesday next week?

1Jamie Palmer (vaude-villain)1548Jonathan McKay (dandytastic117)2120
2Edward Ferry (mongoose1000)19961-0Norman Lindsay (avizandum)1922
3Sean Groundwater (dseang)14381-0Joseph Weir (tacktick)1216
4Sam Collins (glensannox)17041-0David Reid (dreidgmcc)1730
5Ruairidh McKay (jennlewis)16450-1Jim Murray (bluejm)1441
6Jim Mearns (jim59gmcc)14721-0Toby Knowles (shoguntango)1479

Club Championship Round 1 pairings

Here are the pairings for the first round of the Club Championship:  as stated below, you can play OTB on Thursday night, or on chess.com before 6th Feb.

1. The format is a 7-round Swiss: due to unprecedented demand, we don’t have time for an all-play-all if we want to complete before the last IRL club night;

2. Time control is 30 minutes for all moves, with a 15-second increment;

3, The first round game can be played OTB at the club on Thursday night (25th January).  If you are unable to make this, please arrange with your opponent to play the game on chess.com – deadline date for completing the game and submitting the result to me is 6th February – instructions for setting up the games on chess.com are below.



1
Jonathan McKay (dandytastic117)21201-0Ruairidh McKay (jennlewis)1645
2Toby Knowles (shoguntango)1479Edward Ferry (mongoose1000)1996
3Norman Lindsay (avizandum)19221-0Jim Mearns (jim59gmcc)1472
4Jim Murray (bluejm)14410-1Jamie Palmer (vaude-villain)1548
5David Reid (dreidgmcc)17300.5-0.5Sean Groundwater (dseang)1438
6Joseph Weir (tacktick)1216Sam Collins (glensannox)1704

Setting up games on chess.com

Time control is 30 minutes with 15 second increment, here are the instructions for starting the games…

1. Both players in the pairing log into chess.com before 7:45pm (or at an agreed date/time);

2. The player with the white pieces will set up the challenge: this is done as follows:

3. Click “Play” in left-hand menu and click “Play a friend”;

4. Type the black players username into the ‘Username or Email’ field – it should come up in a popup menu if you type it correctly 🙂

5. Select the username from the popup menu. Ignore any message about ratings difference.

6. Leave the first menu as “Standard”;  

7. Click the time control menu, then click “More Time “Controls”.  You can see fields to enter the custom time control -> then put min=30 sec=blank inc=15 – click “Ok” (LEAVE THE ‘sec’ FIELD BLANK – THIS IS NOT THE INCREMENT FIELD…)

8. Leave ‘Rated’ on, and ‘I play as…’ to white.

9. Now click ‘Play’;

10. The other player (black), should see the challenge come up on the Chess.com menu notifications at the top left-hand, just click the tick on this to accept and the game should start straight away.