Andrew & Kai at the Scottish

Andrew Newton played in the recent Scottish Championships and played some great games, some of which I have posted here, also playing at the Scottish was Kai Pannwitz who entered the Open in the weekend event and came in 2nd!, two of his games are also here, enjoy!:

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James McDade on Redhotpawn

James McDade played this nice wee game on the Redhotpawn website:

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David Cumming Online

This is a well annotated game from David, it was played on the Redhotpawn website, if you want to get the best from the notes to the game you might want to use a board to play over the moves:

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Glasgow Challenger Tournament

Here are two games from this event by Kai, he came in 2nd= in this tournament and his SCA grade has jumped 83 points!

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Inverness Chess Congress?

Inverness could play host to a weekend Chess Congress with suggested dates being the end of October, start of November.
We have been asked to gauge the viability of staging this event by asking for feedback from anyone who might be interested in this tournament.
The venue that has been suggested would not be viable without a good number of entrants, so if you would like a Chess Congress in Inverness please pass this message on to any of your friends who might be interested in playing.
It would be appreciated if you could PM me on the clubs Facebook page or through the clubs website.
It is credit to the organiser for trying to have this Congress here so I hope his efforts are rewarded

Kai Pannwitz V Paul MacDonald

Kai Pannwitz had a good tournament result in the recent Edinburgh Congress, Challenger section,he scored 3/5.
Here are two of his games:

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David Cumming Annotated Game

This game from David Cumming was played on the Red Hot Pawn website. Red Hot Pawn is a more relaxed website for David, unlike the very competitive International Online events he is currently playing in.

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Joy Durno V Kai Pannwitz

This game is from the recent Glenrothes Open, five Inverness players went to the Congress, Andrew Newton and Kai Pannwitz were entered in the Open tournament.
Kai played a spirited game against his higher rated opponent. The Opening was a Benko and after the opening was over Kai had a slightly worse position but White let it slip Kai then pressed home his advantage to win a good game:

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Training Game

This is a game played by Luainn against Fritz as a training game.
Luainn, like a lot of us here in Inverness,gets very few OTB games and so to get any practice at all there is only online or PC software.
Luainn has progressed a lot in recent months due to his studying tactics and looking, and playing, his openings as often as he can, as yet he hasn't played in any team games or congresses and so he has had an uphill struggle to get the practice he needs to improve his game.
Well done to Luainn for continuing to improve and I am sure he will be ready for his first tournament early this year:

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Andrew at TAFCA

Andrew Newton has had an excellent result in the TAFCA Individual Allegro in Dundee, he finished on 4½ from 6 games, his performance will be approximately 2050 for the event.
I would like to take some credit for this result as Andrew spent many a club night scoring wins against my Philidor Defense which convinced me to play something else!

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A game from David

I have another game for you to study, again it is well annotated by David Cumming.
I am also pleased to announce that the Chess Club is open again from Wednesday, we have been closed for a few weeks while the hotel has been re-furbished.
The venue is looking fantastic so pop along if you can to Chess at the Chieftain.

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More From Dundee

I am pleased to say that Jan has sent me 3 of his games from Dundee.
This was Jan,s first OTB tournament and he was very unsure how he would cope with the longer time controls, as previously stated, it didn't bother him at all.
The games were never going to be draws!
I have also added another game from our Internet Champ!,David Cumming.
I hope you enjoy the games as much as I did:

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A Giant Killer!

As promised, here is a game from the recent Dundee Minor tournament.
This game won David the "Giant Killer" prize.
The game goes in favour of both players on and off throughout the game but David gets the point!
Jan Barron-Majerik came in 2nd equal in his first tournament and is going to send me some games for the blog as soon as he has recovered!,he is more used to playing Blitz chess and was concerned he wouldn't do well with the longer time control,the opposite seems to have happened

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More Games from Kai and David

I have another few excellent games to add to our blog,first is from Kai Pannwitz who played in the recent Lothians Congress.
In this first game v an 1800 opponent Kai was 3 pawns up but got into bad time trouble which cost him the game.
It is a good to see how he managed to get into such a good position:

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Next up is another from Kai, again against a higher rated opponent.
I am not sure how it ended in a draw but must ask him :0)

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As an "interval" I have a game from David Cumming who gives a demonstration of how to handle the Albin Counter Gambit!

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The final game for today is another from Kai playing white against the Dutch Defense:

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I am hoping next time to have some games from David Newton and Jan Barron-Majerik who are both playing in the Dundee Congress at the weekend, good luck to them both.

A Games Bonaza!

I have 4 excellent games for the blog this time round, 3 from Kai Pannwitz who recently played for Scotland in the European Youth Championship in Prague.
I also have another well annotated game by David Cumming played on the internet.
Thank you to David and Kai for letting me post their games.

The first game is from Kai who almost beat his higher rated opponent but made an unfortunate error just a few moves from success:

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Here is another well played game from Prague:

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Before the last game from Kai, here is another game from David Cumming:

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And a final game from Kai, a game of knights!:

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Two New Games

Here are two new games from our internet enthusiast,David Cumming.
Both games are well annotated as is normal with David,s games,if you would like to see more games you just need to look at some of the older posts.
Enjoy the games.

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Organizers Required :0)

The club has reached a stage now where we would like to introduce more coaching and tournaments.

Our reason for not doing so is because we have so few adults who can commit to attending/coaching on a regular basis.

The committee have discussed this and have agreed, in principle, that if we can form a group of adult volunteers who can fill this criteria we could then announce our intentions in the paper and hopefully invite more members.

We have the only registered club in the North of Scotland, we have an excellent venue, more than enough equipment, we also host the largest annual junior tournament in the area, there is no reason we cannot be a more successful club, enter the Scottish National Chess League, and  host weekly tournaments within the club, we only need more adults!

It is amazing how many players there are in the area and are registered with the Scottish Chess Association, and on Chess.com!, it would be brilliant to see more of them at the club.

I must take this opportunity to thank the adults who already turn up as often as they can, in some cases every week, to open up the club and generally ensure we are always open, they also coach new members and run the very successful monthly Blitz tournament.

If anyone wants to contact me you can reach me through the club website .

I hope we will be in a position to announce new tournaments/coaching etc.; we just need to pass on the word we are looking for support to carry out the clubs ambitions and promote chess in the Highlands.

This is a game played by Andrew Newton in the Glasgow Open. It is unusual to see Whites opening played in Opens but shows that you have to be prepared!, Andrew said he was not sure of the "book" line but he played very accurately to win this game:

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Here is a rare game from our regular Blitz Champion, Andrew Newton, I managed to get it from his opponent, George Pyrich, thank you George!. It is a game that is typical of Andrews style, not for him the easy route. The middle game was very stable but then it all kicked off, George missed a winning move and Andrew recovered to win.

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Here is another game from our David Cumming which is well annotated:

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