RON BUTLIN Thursday 27th November, 7.30pm, Sloan’s
Edinburgh based Poet - hosted by Vital synz. ( website ) Tickets available on the night Thursday 27th November, 7.30pm, Sloan’s 108 Argyle St, Glasgow G2 8BG
And the following night
Had a lot of fun this week heading down the Championships, which have been played at Glasgow Academy, in Kelvinbridge.
I played the morning lightning tourney, yesterday, on the sensory boards (!) and got 3/6, although narrowly seemed to have missed getting the Grading prize 
There are some games of this on the net, but the names are all wrong - I salvaged the 3 games of mine I could find…
Browse them here - I have annotated them a bit too 
My congratulations to Evis who *did* get the grading prize (the under 1750! one) in the blitz tourney this morning - excellent stuff from the Maestro
The Championships themselves have seen the 2 players I know well, doing *very* well - Allan Brown stormed to a 3.5 in round 5, and has slightly faltered since, but his performance rating gave evidence of his subtle skills. Allan is a great presence at Phones chess club, where I play, he is always keen to instruct us lesser players and I am happy he has done us all very proud with his participation at the Champs.
Also, my good friend Chris (with Blair in this pic) has done very well, after a great start then disastrous 2nd game (which was live on the internets!).
Good luck to both of them in today’s finale.
Check the Scottish Chess 2008 website - with all games, results and live coverage of top boards.
The tournament is very exciting with Markos (GM) still leading and unbeaten but he can be caught still… the young Uzbek greatly impressed yesterday against Markos - getting a draw in a Sveshnikov Sicilian.
made this several years ago (end 2003 /early 04?) as part of our Animation class using LightWave at University of Paisley - Multimedia BSc Honours . Nicolas Blanchard, David Gallagher and Sophie Godard - Nicolas really knew his stuff (like the textures and more fancy Lightwave effects) but I think we all contributed a fair bit too
Wonder where they all are now ? ( I know about Dave though!)
A site by Infinite Eye for the new Glasgow Poetry Society: Vital Synz.
Really enjoyed the Oran Mor launch event, despite only snarfing one canapé…
Worth not staying in and installing Leopard on my new Mini for, even!
Nice work Craig (of Glasgow’s Infinite Eye) on Stand/ Tennent’s new site for Scotland’s Finest bars — including supporters and bar photos!
And well done to all the bars who have got passion & belief that we will go through, as you can see from all the photos!