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Robot assisted surgery begins in Inverness

Robots assisted surgery for the first time recently at inverness's Raigmore hospital. Strathspey Herald News article

Tha olympiad tàileisg deiseil

The online chess olympiad of 2021 has finished with Russia beating USA in the final match. Russia beat my personal favourites for the competition China in order to reach the finals. While USA beat India in the semi-finals. See the complete list of games on the week in chess : link In other chess news, Magnus Carlsen world champion, won the Norway Chess. One of the few over the board classical tournaments held this year. Full details can be found on the chess24.com website. 

Tàileisg Olympiad (chess olympiad)

The chess olympiad has chrìochnaich airson Alba (ended for scotland). Alba made progress from division 3 into division 2. Where they came up against far more experienced teams, with lots of history in chess. Israel which has a long history in chess, together with the former soviet state of Belarus and Sweden where chess has royal connections. Scotland struggled to get a grip of the group.  It would be nice to do a breakdown of the tournament from a Scottish perspective as they did well. They qualified into the next division along with Ireland and Wales. Then managed to beat Norway and Portugal in division 2.