Glasgow Montrose Chess Club

‘B’ team lose 5-1 to Phones ‘A’

gmadmin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:27:04 +0000

The ‘B’ team, outgraded on every board by 300-400 points, went down 5-1 to Phones ‘A’ in tonight’s Div. 2 fixture played at home in the Novotel.

Heroic efforts by Chris Perkin and Jim Mearns avoided the wipe-out.

Board	Glasgow Montrose ‘B’		1	5		Phones ‘A’
1	C. Perkin	W	0.5	0.5	B	S. MacDonald
2	R. Smeeton	B	0	1	W	R. Dickson
3	J. Murray	W	0	1	B	S. Rettie
4	J. Mearns	B	0.5	0.5	W	J. Findlay
5	S. Groundwater	W	0	1	B	K. Strathern
6	S. Forgrieve	B	0	1	W	C. Paterson

‘B’ Team Lose 4-2 to Cumbernauld

gmadmin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:02:25 +0000

Despite drawing the four bottom boards, the (once more) heavily outgraded ‘B’ team went down 4-2 to Cumbernauld.

Board	Cumbernauld		4	2		Glasgow Montrose ‘B’
1	Ian Marks	W	1	0	B	Chris Perkin
2	Jack Parkes	B	1	0	W	Roy Smeeton
3	David Johnstone	W	0.5	0.5	B	Jim Murray
4	David Bonella	B	0.5	0.5	W	Sean Groundwater
5	George Thomson	W	0.5	0.5	B	Steve Forgrieve
6	Paul Black	B	0.5	0.5	W	Graeme MacDonald

‘A’ Team lose 2.5-3.5 to Polytechnic ‘B’

gmadmin — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:34:22 +0000

The ‘A’ Team lost last Thursday’s (12th Nov.) Div. 2 fixture 2.5 – 3.5 to Polytechnic ‘B’. Things took a worse turn for the Montrosians when Dan Breslin, two pawns down against Robin Templeton, turned his game round with a scintillating exchange sacrifice leading to a mating attack.

Board	Polytechnic ‘B’		3.5	2.5		Glasgow Montrose ‘A’
1	J Eldridge	W	0	1	B	E Ferry
2	L Brookens	B	1	0	W	S Collins
3	D Breslin	W	1	0	B	R Templeton
4	B Laidlaw	B	0.5	0.5	W	N Lindsay
5	E Delgado	W	0	1	B	D Reid
6	B Innes	B	1	0	W	P Blair

GM Players’ Results from the Glasgow Chess Congress

gmadmin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:45:51 +0000

Here’s the results for the Glasgow Montrose players who played at the Glasgow Chess Congress last week (photos to follow soon):

E Ferry 2/5 (Open)
C Perkin 3/5 (Major)
J Mearns 3/5 (Major)
S Forgrieve 3/5 (Minor)
P Blair 3/5 (Minor)
G MacDonald 3/5 (Minor)

‘B’ Team lose 2.5 – 3.5 to Giffnock ‘B’ Team

gmadmin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:36:14 +0000

Board	Polytechnic ‘B’		3.5	2.5		Glasgow Montrose ‘A’
1	J Eldridge	W	0	1	B	E Ferry
2	L Brookens	B	1	0	W	S Collins
3	D Breslin	W	1	0	B	R Templeton
4	B Laidlaw	B	0.5	0.5	W	N Lindsay
5	E Delgado	W	0	1	B	D Reid
6	B Innes	B	1	0	W	P Blair

‘B’ Team lose 5-1 to East Kilbride ‘A’

gmadmin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:33:44 +0000

A heavily outgraded ‘B’ Team, lacking its top three boards, lost 5-1 playing away against East Kilbride ‘A’ Team on the Div. 2 fixture played on Thursday October 29th. Congrats to new member Graeme for preventing the ‘wipe-out’!

Board	Glasgow Montrose ‘B’		1	5		East Kilbride ‘A’
1	J Mearns (1390)	W	0	1	B	A Jelfs (1872)
2	S Groundwater (1388)	B	0	1	W	F Murray (1669)
3	A Dick (1164)	W	0	1	B	D MacDonald (1569)
4	S Forgrieve (U/G)	B	0	1	W	J Dykes (1486)
5	G MacDonald (U/G)	W	1	0	B	T Brisbane (1485)
6	– Default –	B	0	1	W	T Dunlop

‘A’ Team beats Phones ‘A’ 3.5 – 2.5

gmadmin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:11:38 +0000

The ‘A’ Team won 3.5 – 2.5 playing away against Phones ‘A’ Team on the Div. 2 fixture played on October 26th.

Board	Phones ‘A’		2.5	3.5		Glasgow Montrose ‘A’
1	S MacDonald	W	0	1	B	S Collins
2	R Dickson	B	0.5	0.5	W	R Templeton
3	S Rettie	W	0	1	B	K McCaffrey
4	J Findlay	B	0	1	W	D Reid
5	K Strathern	W	1	0	B	Suheeb Shnawa
6	C Paterson	B	1	0	W	P Blair

‘A’ Team wipes out ‘B’ Team in hard-fought Div. 2 tussle

gmadmin — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:55:44 +0000

Despite the ‘B’ team having promising positions on at least 4 boards, a series of last-minute slip-ups ensured that the ‘A’ Team won 6-0 in tonight’s Glasgow League Div. 2 fixture.

Chris on board 1 and Steven on board 6 achieved won positions against their higher-graded opponents, and Jim Mearns on board 3 and your humble Webmaster on board 4 held even positions for much of their respective games, but eventually bad luck and/or bad nerves conspired to cause a wipe-out at the end of the night.

Full results are as follows:

Board	Glasgow Montrose ‘B’		6		Glasgow Montrose ‘A’
1	Chris Perkin (1526)	W	1	B	Ed Ferry (1954)
2	Jim Murray (1467)	B	1	W	Sam Collins (1789)
3	Jim Mearns (1390)	W	1	B	Norman Lindsay (1751)
4	Sean Groundwater (1388)	B	1	W	Kenny McCaffrey (1768)
5	Andrew Dick (1142)	W	1	B	Robin Templeton (1750)
6	Steven Forgrieve (U/G)	B	1	W	David Reid (1681)

GM Players at the Dundee & Angus Congress

gmadmin — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:50:25 +0000

New member Paul Blair has just emailed in the following report on Glasgow Montrose players at the Dundee & Angus Congress:

“Eddie Ferry tied with 3 people for the U2000 grading prize in the Open, getting 3/5 and actually drawing with the eventual winner FM Gunnar Jacob in the first match of the tournament (He joked afterwards that he was quite proud he made Mr Jacob’s path easier to the win!)

“Myself, after 2 years out of chess, got a 2.5/5 in the Minor. Was glad just to get the ring rust out of the system and get a few wins on the board.

“Watch out for Eddie’s mug shot hitting http://www.dundee-congress.co.uk over the next few days!”

Full results from the Dundee Congress can be seen here.

Follow Glasgow Montrose on Twitter

gmadmin — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:52:49 +0000

Twitter users can now follow the exploits of Glasgow Montrose Chess Club: go to http://twitter.com/glasgowmontrose or point your favourite Twitter client to @glasgowmontrose