SCCA Magazine Spring 2016 | Page 2

Editorial and News Welcome to the first edition of the 2016 magazine set. A new year means a new front cover, and this time we feature sculpture by Douglas MacDonald, a native Scot, now based in Rideau Lakes, Canada. By Iain Mackintosh SCCA Membership Annual: £10/year buys you entry to all SCCA domestic Unsurprisingly, our climate continues on its chaotic way. A recent day began to resemble the Wikipedia entry for Spring, but when I ventured out to inspect it, I was attacked by sleet needles from a passing thunderstorm – a kind of industrial acupuncture for unrepentant sinners. events and friendly international matches, plus 4 quarterly emagazines. George Pyrich has analysed the second ICCF rating list of 2016 for us, a relatively stable period with more games milestones for our more active members. Patron: £125 (+ any further donation you care to make) Life: £100 gets you annual membership for the rest of your days (plus a year’s worth of printed magazines to try out). gets you life membership and your name on something commemorative. David Kilgour reports on the winners of our 2015 Best Game Prize. The top three spots were all high quality games, so please play through them and enjoy. SCCA 100 Club Peter Bennett attempts a classification of the denizens of the CC world based on his direct observations. I couldn’t find a category which fitted, but that may be due to my violent mood swings after sleet needle attacks and the like. More artwork from Samuel Bak concludes this article. The 100 Club is an important revenue-earner for the SCCA and it helps us to keep our fees low and/or unchanged year on year. Responsibility for the 100 Club rests with our Treasurer, Gordon Anderson. John Hawkes used to live near Perth and contributed many an article to the SCCA bulletin/magazine in the 1970s and 80s. He’s now based in France and makes a welcome return to our pages with some very readable games, plus the first in a series of great CC miniatures. Units cost £1 with some members taking one unit while others take as many as 10 units per month. From the Association’s perspective paying by Bankers Order is most convenient. If you don’t already subscribe to the 100 club please consider if you can help the SCCA by taking out units and make contact with Gordon whose contact details are shown below. George once again publishes a comprehensive international report with x-tables galore and games from members Tom Matheis, Alan Bell, Richard Beecham, Iain Mackintosh and Kevin Paine. Alan Borwell provides a further update from the Veterans’ World Cups. SCCA are sponsoring series 2, 3 and 4, and we now have the final result from VWC3. The winners will receive their engraved quaichs in due course (‘No, it doesn’t talk like a duck, you drink from it!’). Recent 100 Club Winners Finally, best of luck if you decide to venture outdoors and get sociable. Don’t do anything I wouldn’t enjoy! 2016 1st 2nd March February January Mrs D Livie I Mackintosh Mrs D Livie J S Murray P M Giulian S R Mannion SCCA Officials President VP & International Iain Mackintosh George Pyrich 7 Tullylumb Terrace, Perth PH1 1BA Can Connect Box 206, Avenida America, 04800 Albox, Almeria, Spain [phone] [phone] [email protected] [email protected] Secretary * [email protected] Membership Kevin Paine 47 Park Hill Drive, Frome BA11 2LQ [phone] [email protected] Treasurer Gordon Anderson 63 Wellin Lane, Edwalton, Nottingham NG12 4AH [phone] [email protected] Member Jim Anderson 162 Fountainbleau Drive, Dundee DD4 8BJ [phone] [email protected] Member Alan Borwell 8 Wheatfield Avenue, Inchture PH14 9RX [phone] [email protected] Member Alastair Dawson 10 Berry Place, St Andrews KY16 8RG [phone] [email protected] Games Editor Iain Mackintosh 7 Tullylumb Terrace, Perth PH1 1BA [phone] [email protected] NB Secretarial duties will be undertaken by Kevin Paine (enquiries), Jim Anderson (domestic events) and Iain Mackintosh (minutes) pro tem. SCCA Magazine 133 1 Spring 2016