A number of members of Bon Accord chess club were competing at the Marymass chess congress in Irvine last weekend.

Neil Irving scored 2½/5 in the open. In the major Kalyan Kante scored 1½/5, while Anna Milton (playing in her first tournament for over a year) scored 1½ points in the first four rounds and was working on converting a bishop ending with a couple of extra pawns in the final round at the point when I decided to go home.