The club will now be on a Monday night at St Peters Free Church, 4St Peters Street Dundee from 7:30pm. This will only be for friendly matches. The TAFCA league and club competitions will be still be on Lichess.
Alastair Dawson has been doing some coaching online please see these videos below.
Analysis of one of Norrie Carrols games.
Analysis of one of Thibault’s games.
Here is the draw for the final round of the club Championship can the white player please arrange the match with there opponent.
ust be played by 16th April 2021
For the draw of round 3 and results of first 2 rounds click here.
Find round 1 games here.
The time control is 45min +15sec per move. The white player must start the game.
Newport Knights B 4-0 Dundee E
Newport Knights B 4-0 Dundee E
D Cairns 1391 1-0 H Meadows 870
S Finnie 1340 1-0 P Gibson 817
A Sneddon 1335 1-0 S Mckenzie 556
A Wallace 1074 1-0 M Wang 460
Doubt our lads could have expected much out of this encounter. They fought the good fight but were outplayed by their much more experienced opponents. Scott made Angus work harder for his win than he’d have anticipated, but the game and ending were always lost.
But the purpose of the E team is to blood new players, young and not-so, and for everyone to enjoy some competitive chess. Hopefully that’s the case, and the team will face easier opposition in the season.
Games will appear here later http://tafca.co.uk/winter-league/
A Woodcock 1343 ½-½ P Anderson 1325
T Rosazza 1220 0-1 E Henderson 1282
A Kennan 1200(e) 1-0 P Selbie 1263
M Whisson 1038 ½-½ B Geddes 1189
As close and tense as the gradings pointed to. Thibault’s ambitious sacrificial attack wasn’t quite sound, but as both players mishandled the complications, it could have been OK. But further pressing was too much and Euan took the point. Max defended well from a two pawn deficit, and a few slips by Bruce secured the half. Alan was his usual solid self to split the point with Paul, but Andy had every reason to be pleased with his enterprising play that led the experienced Peter astray and rescued the match draw.
Well done to the D team in getting on the scores board against a good side. All games will be on the TAFCA website soon http://tafca.co.uk/winter-league/
It’s been a long and very difficult period for everyone, some much more than others of course. Hopefully everyone is well and keeping safe.
Chess may seem a bit trivial by comparison to what’s happening in the world now, but everyone needs a break from the new routine, and chess is what we love, so some great people are doing all they can to ensure we can continue with our hobby/career/way of life/addiction in as near normal a fashion as possible!
The recently ended TAFCA Summer trial league proved a big success with huge thanks to the organisers. And so we move into the full-blown regular TAFCA season, online for the first time. It’s chess life – not as we know it perhaps, but still fun and will keep us going till we meet again. We appreciate it’s not to everyone’s taste, but it’s all we have for the forseeable future, and we hope to have as close to a regular club season as we can.
Most of the events will be played on Lichess (lichess.org) which is an excellent platform for hosting everything. You will need an account on Lichess, but it’s completely free. You will need to join a couple of ‘teams’ – Dundee Chess Club and TAFCA League Online. All pretty straightforward, but email Jim – chessmad501@gmail.com or text 07703735350 if you have any problems. A couple of links below will tell you all you need to know.
http://tafca.co.uk/team-events/
Dundee teams and captains etc for new season.
player pnum grade lichess handle email
A Team – captain Alan Borwell
Jacques Ophoff 29574 2257 realpioneer jacques.ophoff@gmail.com
David Findlay 3919 2150 finlidor davidjfindlay@doctors.org.uk
Ed Spencer 6072 2127 hedgehog110 ed.spencer38@yahoo.co.uk
Stephen Hogg 4365 2027 doash stephenhogg64@hotmail.com
Gary Weir 6434 1881 Gary.weir@rocketmail.com
B Team – captain John Robertson
Alan Borwell 3239 1842 alibor alanborwell@btinternet.com
Alastair Dawson 13697 1800 Terrydactil alastairdawson@icloud.com
Frank Stevenson 6107 1624 Paco1960 fstevenson60@yahoo.co.uk
John Robertson 6807 1562 LocheeShuffle johnrb2112@aol.com
C Team – captain Ray Flood
James Anderson 3051 1540 chessmad501 chessmad@sky.com
Ray Flood 3951 1475 AlfyDoor alfydoor@blueyonder.co.uk
Bruce Wallace 7607 1430 Bruciebaby brucewallace162@btinternet.com
George G Burton 7491 1350 WeeGeorgie ggburton53@gmail.com
D Team – captain Thibault Rosazza
Alan R Woodcock 6533 1343 woodcock16@btinternet.com
Thibault Rosazza 29391 1220 Pirneote thibault.rosazza@gmail.com
Andy Kennan 29412 1200 AndyK22
Max Whisson 27745 1038 Maximilian_Whisson steve.whisson@hutton.ac.uk
E Team – captain Jim Anderson
Jean Chalmers 3475 1005 TheDuchess1 jeanchalmers48@gmail.com
Christine Sim 18987 998 cms391@outlook.com
Norrie Carroll 28213 917 Tiggy11 norrie.carroll@btinternet.com
Henri Meadows 27916 870 HJMeadows henrijamesmeadows@gmail.com
Peter Gibson 28212 817 PeterGib petergibson1@sky.com
Scott McKenzie 26931 556 macoinneach macoinneach@yahoo.co.uk
Max Wang 28556 460 fairtugboat tracymozzer@yahoo.com
There will of course be club championships and hopefully other activities to keep us all active as a club. Everything will be reported and everyone will be kept in the loop. Stay tuned to the site and Facebook. Take Care everyone.