Aim Here

A hundred years of town planning wisdom has informed us that when you make car ownership shitty enough for drivers, they stop using cars, switch to public transport or walking, and cities become nicer. If you try to appease car owners with nicer facilities and wider roads and whatever, then more people start to use cars, and the city becomes as hellish as it was before you widened the roads. The very idea is to harass residents into not owning cars anymore. The usefulness of the policy is directly proportional to the volume of complaints about how annoying it is to own a car in Edinburgh. The answer to your question is that the residents shouldn't be parking cars anywhere, if at all possible.

Division B Final Table Division B P W D L Pts redVtop 22 21 1 0 64 pleslie999 22 18 1 3 55 PnbMathematics 22 14 2 6 44 Basedgodsa1nt 22 14 1 7 43 Dandies1983 22 12 1 9 37 mackieboz 22 10 1 11 31 markf268 22 10 0 12 30 N5_Spur 22 8 1 13 25 RBWatson 22 7 1 14 22 Dustysghost 22 6 0 16 18 DieHardDoonhamer 22 4 0 18 12 XCTR94 22 3 1 18 10 All the results are now in for Divison B, and this season's runaway winner is newcomer redVtop / @Caro-Kann - the guy with the chess name on the football forum and the football name on the chess site. From his near-perfect winning record this season, and his cup upset against Trogdor, it looks like we'll have a likely challenger for the top spot next season. Congratulations and very well played! Joining him in the automatic promotion spot is pleslie999 / @pleslie99 who also put in a very good showing and in third place is PnbMathematics / @mathematics - league restructure permitting, he'll have some chance of promotion to division A via playoff. And thanks to all the players of Division B for making this a very easy to run tournament. I hope to see you guys back next season, once we've sorted out the other, (rather less prompt), division and the playoff spots!

Division A Table and Outstanding Results Division A P W D L Pts DearyMe 21 19 1 1 58 ancientnoise 20 18 2 0 56 AimHere 22 16 0 6 48 The_Curmudgeon 21 14 2 5 44 stewartmathers 21 11 0 10 33 KenDeans 20 7 2 11 23 Arabjoe 21 6 3 12 21 invergowrie 22 5 4 13 19 AH13STU 17 6 0 11 18 AlbinoRov 21 5 2 14 17 beef2711 21 4 2 15 14 The_kid1433 21 3 2 16 11 For this week's results, I trawled the chess.com gamelist to see if I could find results that either I'd missed or hadn't been reported. The trouble with this method is that I don't know if you guys are playing each other in friendlies or games in other tournaments that don't affect the league, so any results I've found this way are recorded below - if I made a mistake, please correct me. Happily, for every outstanding result, there's either a game in progress or a (provisional) result to record. |-------+---------------------------+------------------------| | Round | Game | Status | |-------+---------------------------+------------------------| | 5 | AH13STU vs beef2711 | Win for AH13STU | | 9 | DearyMe vs AH13STU | Win for DearyMe | | 10 | beef2711 vs The_kid1433 | Win for beef2711 | | 12 | The_kid1433 vs AH13STU | Apparently In progress | | 13 | beef2711 vs Arabjoe | Apparently in progress | | 14 | AlbinoRov vs AH13STU | Apparently in progress | | 17 | AH13STU vs The_Curmudgeon | Apparently in progress | | 18 | beef2711 vs DearyMe | Win for DearyMe | | 21 | DearyMe vs ancientnoise | Apparently in progress | | 21 | KenDeans vs AH13STU | Apparently in progress | | 21 | The_kid1433 vs beef2711 | Win for the_kid1433 | | 22 | DearyMe vs invergowrie | Win for DearyMe | | 22 | ancientnoise vs KenDeans | Apparently in progress | | 22 | AH13STU vs stewartmathers | Apparently in progress | |-------+---------------------------+------------------------| As usual, results and calculations are on the spreadsheet at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YwODlp2A0TBMf2VuyjJox4ZaiyNKmLk37TH0_HrC-jk/

Oh my. I was keeping an eye on that game, thinking it looked like a draw to me. I didn't expect DearyMe to miss the mate threat!

Give it time. He's only just been signed the other day and has had at the very most one single training run with the team. A few sessions at East Mains to show him the ropes and he'll be drilled into being an ineffectual shitebag like the rest of the team.

Nah, not tonight. The horsing will be so brutal that Andrew Dallas will be moved to tears at the VAR footage and award Hibs a free penalty, out of pity.

Division B Table and Outstanding Results Division B P W D L Pts redVtop 22 21 1 0 64 pleslie999 21 17 1 3 52 PnbMathematics 22 14 2 6 44 Basedgodsa1nt 22 14 1 7 43 Dandies1983 21 11 1 9 34 markf268 22 10 0 12 30 mackieboz 21 9 1 11 28 N5_Spur 22 8 1 13 25 RBWatson 22 7 1 14 22 Dustysghost 21 5 0 16 15 DieHardDoonhamer 22 4 0 18 12 XCTR94 18 3 1 14 10 12 XCTR94 vs mackieboz 15 XCTR94 vs Dandies1983 21 XCTR94 vs Dustysghost 22 pleslie999 vs XCTR94 As usual, the results and calculations can be found on the spreadsheet at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YwODlp2A0TBMf2VuyjJox4ZaiyNKmLk37TH0_HrC-jk/

Division A Table and Outstanding Fixtures Division A P W D L Pts ancientnoise 19 17 2 0 53 DearyMe 18 16 1 1 49 AimHere 21 15 0 6 45 The_Curmudgeon 21 14 2 5 44 stewartmathers 21 11 0 10 33 KenDeans 20 7 2 11 23 AlbinoRov 18 4 2 12 14 invergowrie 18 3 4 11 13 AH13STU 12 4 0 8 12 Arabjoe 18 3 3 12 12 beef2711 16 3 2 11 11 The_kid1433 16 2 2 12 8 5 AH13STU vs beef2711 9 DearyMe vs AH13STU 10 beef2711 vs The_kid1433 12 The_kid1433 vs AH13STU 13 beef2711 vs Arabjoe 14 AlbinoRov vs AH13STU 15 AH13STU vs Arabjoe 17 invergowrie vs The_kid1433 17 AH13STU vs The_Curmudgeon 18 AH13STU vs invergowrie 18 beef2711 vs DearyMe 19 ancientnoise vs AH13STU 19 The_kid1433 vs AlbinoRov 20 Arabjoe vs The_kid1433 21 invergowrie vs AlbinoRov 21 DearyMe vs ancientnoise 21 KenDeans vs AH13STU 21 The_kid1433 vs beef2711 22 DearyMe vs invergowrie 22 Arabjoe vs AlbinoRov 22 ancientnoise vs KenDeans 22 beef2711 vs AimHere 22 AH13STU vs stewartmathers For these outstanding results, report them if the game has been played, fire off the challenges if the game hasn't been played, and keep on playing if the game is in progress

Is it too late to bring Lee Johnson back?

Station Park seems to be one of the more idiosyncratic treks to the away end in the SPFL, I feel.

Mary Weiss, the leader of the Shangri-Las, and now she's gone.

He doesn't. Defending is sooooo 2023. We're punting all of our centre backs out to Annan Athletic on loan, Nick Montgomery is going full-on reverse-Levein and we're switching from 4-4-2 to 0-4-6. Doesn't matter if we concede as long as our 4 wingers and two centre forwards score one more goal than the other mob. We're going to win the league with more goals scored than Celtic, and more goals conceded than 2018-era Fort William. Have faith in the process.

Division B Table and outstanding Results Division B P W D L Pts redVtop 22 21 1 0 64 pleslie999 21 17 1 3 52 PnbMathematics 22 14 2 6 44 Basedgodsa1nt 21 13 1 7 40 Dandies1983 19 11 1 7 34 mackieboz 20 8 1 11 25 N5_Spur 22 8 1 13 25 RBWatson 22 7 1 14 22 markf268 17 6 0 11 18 Dustysghost 21 5 0 16 15 DieHardDoonhamer 20 4 0 16 12 XCTR94 17 3 1 13 10 As is typical, division B tends to be a lot more prompt with their game results. Here are the few that remain: 8 markf268 vs Dandies1983 12 XCTR94 vs mackieboz 15 XCTR94 vs Dandies1983 16 markf268 vs mackieboz 17 XCTR94 vs markf268 19 Dandies1983 vs markf268 21 Basedgodsa1nt vs DieHardDoonhamer 21 XCTR94 vs Dustysghost 22 DieHardDoonhamer vs markf268 22 pleslie999 vs XCTR94 As usual, results and calculations are found on the spreadsheet at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YwODlp2A0TBMf2VuyjJox4ZaiyNKmLk37TH0_HrC-jk/

Division A Table and Outstanding Results Division A P W D L Pts ancientnoise 18 16 2 0 50 DearyMe 18 16 1 1 49 AimHere 21 15 0 6 45 The_Curmudgeon 20 13 2 5 41 stewartmathers 20 11 0 9 33 KenDeans 20 7 2 11 23 AlbinoRov 18 4 2 12 14 invergowrie 17 3 4 10 13 AH13STU 12 4 0 8 12 Arabjoe 18 3 3 12 12 beef2711 16 3 2 11 11 The_kid1433 16 2 2 12 8 Still tight at the top, with only 1 point between the two front runners, and 3 outstanding results to come in for each. Also plenty of outstanding results at the other end of the table, so the tail-enders can still avoid the drop! Here's the game results yet to come in. Get these challenges sent, games played, and results reported! 5 AH13STU vs beef2711 9 DearyMe vs AH13STU 10 beef2711 vs The_kid1433 12 The_kid1433 vs AH13STU 13 beef2711 vs Arabjoe 14 AlbinoRov vs AH13STU 15 AH13STU vs Arabjoe 17 invergowrie vs The_kid1433 17 AH13STU vs The_Curmudgeon 18 AH13STU vs invergowrie 18 beef2711 vs DearyMe 19 ancientnoise vs AH13STU 19 The_kid1433 vs AlbinoRov 20 ancientnoise vs invergowrie 20 Arabjoe vs The_kid1433 21 invergowrie vs AlbinoRov 21 DearyMe vs ancientnoise 21 KenDeans vs AH13STU 21 The_kid1433 vs beef2711 21 stewartmathers vs The_Curmudgeon 22 DearyMe vs invergowrie 22 Arabjoe vs AlbinoRov 22 ancientnoise vs KenDeans 22 beef2711 vs AimHere 22 AH13STU vs stewartmathers

Wikipedia reports six notable, living, holes, so we'll get those jabs in, eventually.

If we get an influx of titled players I may have to consider a system of giving the untitled players piece odds!

The league season is winding down. All the fixtures have been sent out and I'm just waiting for them all to be played. In a few weeks I'll start the next season, I'll ask in this thread who wants to play, and if you pipe up with your chess.com ID, we'll slot you in.

According to Wikipedia, Hibs have a player from the World War 1 era called William Dornan who played 357 league games for Hibs without ever scoring a goal. He didn't score in any of the 25 games he played when on loan to Leith Athletic either. Eventually, he scored a single goal in one of this 107 appearances for Queen of the South.

We've just established that ancientnoise's wean is open to bribery, so I'm not about to discount underhand jiggery-pokery here. The question is which, if any, of the P&B chess crowd would stoop to such skullduggery.

I'm pretty sure that's right. You're probably due a lifetime achievement award for hogging the first blood bonus like this.

This digging up of last year's bodies is giving me the fear again. Thankfully nobody picked yer last year, either.

Division B Table and Outstanding Fixtures Division B P W D L Pts redVtop 22 21 1 0 64 pleslie999 21 17 1 3 52 PnbMathematics 22 14 2 6 44 Basedgodsa1nt 21 13 1 7 40 Dandies1983 17 10 1 6 31 N5_Spur 22 8 1 13 25 mackieboz 19 7 1 11 22 RBWatson 21 7 1 13 22 markf268 17 6 0 11 18 DieHardDoonhamer 18 4 0 14 12 Dustysghost 20 4 0 16 12 XCTR94 16 2 1 13 7 |-------+-----------------------------------| | Round | Fixture | |-------+-----------------------------------| | 8 | markf268 vs Dandies1983 | | 12 | XCTR94 vs mackieboz | | 14 | Dandies1983 vs mackieboz | | 15 | XCTR94 vs Dandies1983 | | 16 | markf268 vs mackieboz | | 17 | XCTR94 vs markf268 | | 18 | DieHardDoonhamer vs XCTR94 | | 19 | Dandies1983 vs markf268 | | 20 | DieHardDoonhamer vs Dandies1983 | | 21 | Basedgodsa1nt vs DieHardDoonhamer | | 21 | XCTR94 vs Dustysghost | | 22 | DieHardDoonhamer vs markf268 | | 22 | pleslie999 vs XCTR94 | | 22 | Dustysghost vs RBWatson | |-------+-----------------------------------| There's a bit less to catch up on here, and we now have newcomer redVtop / @Caro-Kann mathematically assured of the top tier, but what I said for division A goes for division B, too. Please catch up on your outstanding fixtures!

Division A Table and Outstanding Fixtures Division A P W D L Pts ancientnoise 17 15 2 0 47 DearyMe 17 15 1 1 46 AimHere 19 13 0 6 39 The_Curmudgeon 19 12 2 5 38 stewartmathers 20 11 0 9 33 KenDeans 18 7 2 9 23 AlbinoRov 18 4 2 12 14 invergowrie 17 3 4 10 13 AH13STU 10 3 0 7 9 Arabjoe 16 2 3 11 9 beef2711 12 2 2 8 8 The_kid1433 15 2 2 11 8 All the fixtures have been assigned, so now it's just a case of catching up on old results. |-------+----------------------------------| | Round | Fixture | |-------+----------------------------------| | 5 | AH13STU vs beef2711 | | 9 | DearyMe vs AH13STU | | 10 | beef2711 vs The_kid1433 | | 11 | AimHere vs beef2711 | | 12 | The_kid1433 vs AH13STU | | 13 | beef2711 vs Arabjoe | | 14 | AlbinoRov vs AH13STU | | 15 | AH13STU vs Arabjoe | | 16 | beef2711 vs AH13STU | | 17 | invergowrie vs The_kid1433 | | 17 | AH13STU vs The_Curmudgeon | | 17 | ancientnoise vs beef2711 | | 18 | AH13STU vs invergowrie | | 18 | beef2711 vs DearyMe | | 18 | Arabjoe vs KenDeans | | 19 | ancientnoise vs AH13STU | | 19 | The_kid1433 vs AlbinoRov | | 19 | KenDeans vs beef2711 | | 20 | ancientnoise vs invergowrie | | 20 | AH13STU vs DearyMe | | 20 | Arabjoe vs The_kid1433 | | 21 | invergowrie vs AlbinoRov | | 21 | DearyMe vs ancientnoise | | 21 | AimHere vs Arabjoe | | 21 | KenDeans vs AH13STU | | 21 | The_kid1433 vs beef2711 | | 21 | stewartmathers vs The_Curmudgeon | | 22 | DearyMe vs invergowrie | | 22 | Arabjoe vs AlbinoRov | | 22 | ancientnoise vs KenDeans | | 22 | beef2711 vs AimHere | | 22 | AH13STU vs stewartmathers | | 22 | The_Curmudgeon vs The_kid1433 | |-------+----------------------------------| If you've played these and not reported the result, please report it. If you've not started these games yet, you should send out a challenge. If you're already playing these games, then please carry on! As usual, results and calculations are on the spreadsheet at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YwODlp2A0TBMf2VuyjJox4ZaiyNKmLk37TH0_HrC-jk/

@alta-pete is doing that experiment this year. If he wins with a record-breaking 12 hits, all with unnatural causes bonuses from defenestration, then it might be time for a rule change.