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Bridge - The Scotsman 23/05/2013

Although the Sime team were outscored almost throughout the Scottish Cup Final, they did not play as badly as the score suggests. Alan Mould did well on this deal.

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Chess - The Scotsman 23/05/2013

THE European Individual Championship has become one of the most keenly contested tournaments for many grandmasters, mainly due to the lure of the top finishers earning a potentially lucrative pay-day with a guarantee of multiple qualification spots into the next FIDE World Cup.

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Bridge - The Scotsman 22/05/2013

This is another illustration of the advantages of making opener’s new suit rebid forcing. Once North has responded at the two-level South knows he wants to be in at least game, and slam is a possibility.

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Chess - The Scotsman 22/05/2013

CHESS has lost one of its most respected, trusted ambassadors. German grandmaster, three-time world championship chief arbiter and bibliophile Lothar Schmid died on Saturday in Bamberg, Germany. He was 85.

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Bridge - The Scotsman 21/05/2013

Another double-figure swing from the first segment of the Scottish Cup, this one created by a difference in style. Iain Sime opened 1C to show his balanced weak no-trump.

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Chess - The Scotsman 21/05/2013

RUSSIA’S Sergey Karjakin scored the biggest result of his life by winning the Norway Supreme Masters in Stavanger, scoring 6/9 to win the top prize of e100,000 (£84,600) in a field that included seven of the ten top-rated players in the world.

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Bridge - The Scotsman 17/05/13

A TRUMP lead is not always bad, particularly against a high-level doubled contract. On this deal from the National Pairs semi-final the auction became a little overheated.

Chess - The Scotsman 17/05/13

MUCH has been said on the retirement of Sir Alex Ferguson, but not many know that Govan’s finest is a chess aficionado, and over the years has used the odd chess analogy such as, “you can play chess for 10 hours and still lose,” when having a dig at rivals Arsenal.

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