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Archive
News 2005
Club Competition
Winners
Congratulations
to Adam Tansley who won the annual club competition in his first year
at the club. He finished with a flourish winning both the Swiss
and the 1 point KO on the last club evening on 20th December.
Kevin Jones did
exceptionally well to finish third, despite missing many summer
Tuesdays to play bowls.
 Adam receives the trophy from Irving Czechowicz
Medals
for
Irving Czechowicz and Adam Tansley at Mike Main's November tournament
in some side events. Full report on Mike
Main's
site
Harrogate
Tournament
A small,
but
select, group of backgammon players played in a tournament at Harrogate
on
22nd-23rd of October. This was part of a weekend of board games
at
the Crown Hotel. Eight players took part on Saturday, when Manchester
club
founder Kevin Stebbing won the Main tournament (11 point KO), Rodney
Lighton
the Consolation (also 11 point) and one time Manchester member Uldis
Lapikens the Suicide (four player 5 point all play all). On the
Sunday six players contested an all play all (7 point matches).
Rodney Lighton and Zoe Cunningham both won four out of five
matches, but Rodney took the Last Chance trophy by virtue of beating
Zoe in their head to head
match.
Manchester MSO
The
9th
Mind
Sports Olympiad was poorly supported by Manchester players, because of
the
huge increase in entry fees for non-resident players. However
congratulations to Fanika Petkovska who won a Gold Medal in the BIBA
challenge tournament.
 Fanika Petkovska with trophy (photo courtesy Michael Crane - BIBA) Irving wins
Dailygammon Trophy
 Irving Czechowicz won
the
main 7pt knockout at the North England Dailygammon meet held in
Rotherham 14th August 2005. He also reached the final of the 1
point KO.
Liverpool
Tournament
Liverpool
backgammon club provided another excellent tournament over the weekend
of 23rd-24th July. 48 players participated. The format was
a five round, nine point matches Swiss on the Saturday with the top
sixteen qualifying for the Main final (11 point KO), the rest going
into the Consolation (7 point KO) on the Sunday. Five or four
wins guaranteed qualification for the Main and six out of twelve on
three wins were drawn randomly for the remaining places. There
was also a 64 player Last Chance 3 point KO with buy backs and a 1
point 64 player KO with buy backs. Four Manchester players
qualified for the Main final, Brian Lever, Irving Czechowicz, Ron Havenhand
and Rodney Lighton. After the first round Brian Lever was our
only survivor, but he went on to win a close semi-final against Steve
Rimmer and then demolished John Slattery 11-2 in the final.
In the Consolation Kevin Jones scraped through his semi-final against Liverpool's John Wright and went on to beat Rosey Bensley in the final. Adam Tansley lost to Rosey in the semis. Ellie Lighton reached the semi-finals of the Last Chance in her first major tournament. Manchester can claim some interest in the other winners. Uldis Lapikens (who played regularly at the club while working in Liverpool recently) won the Last Chance. Liverpool's Tim Brown (who plays occasionally at Manchester) won the 1 pointer. Many thanks to members of the Liverpool Club. Peter Chan, Simon and Lucy Jones for administration, scoring and food. John Wright for directing and Pam Wright and family for the excellent buffet. Apologies if I've forgotten to mention anyone else.  Ellie Lighton takes a rest while closed out in her semi-final Last Chance match against Dave Mottley Watching are Fak Laight, Uldis Lapikens and Tim Brown
Thanks to Peter Chan for the photos Irving and Fanika Win
at Cambridge MSO
Congratulations to Irving
Czechowicz and
Fanika Petkovska. Fanika won the Suicide in the Mind
Sports tournament and Irving was runner up in the Main, beating
former UK champions Paul Lamford and John Broomfield in earlier
rounds, but finally meeting his match in Zoe Cunningham.
Manchester
1
Day Tournament 2005
24th April Manchester Bridge
Club
Manchester’s one day event
goes from strength to strength. This year there were 54
participants, up from 42 last year and 36 the year before. There
were contingents from Bristol, Birmingham, Preston, Liverpool and
Yorkshire as well as a few players from London and Scotland with a good
turnout from the Manchester club members.
The format was 5 rounds of 5 point matches with the top 16 going into the main final and the rest into a consolation final. The ante post favourite John Slattery seemed to be cruising to qualification winning his first three matches. Then Villi Flari beat him in the fourth round and he lost to Peter Snape in the fifth round. Villi Flari and Mark Dixon led the qualifiers with 5 wins. This was only Villi’s second tournament; she has obviously been practicing hard since her debut at BIBA in November. So John on three wins was in the hat for a draw with 7 players from 19 on three wins going through. John is rarely out of a hat, but on this occasion he managed it and went on to win the main final, beating Nigel Merrigan comfortably in the last match. The consolation went to Liverpool’s Adrian Jones who beat Matthew Fisher in a closely fought final. Simon Jones of Liverpool took advantage of the buy backs in the last chance and at his second attempt reached the final beating London’s Mike Main. Manchester’s only success came in the one pointer where Peter Snape (also a Preston club member) beat Manchester’s Nigel Shackleton. Everyone went home having enjoyed the backgammon, buffet lunch and tea and general conviviality. Next year we hope to reach the maximum 64 entrants, so get your entry in early. Provisional date Sunday 23rd April 2006. Thanks to Alice Lighton for scoring and administration, Lorraine Lighton for the buffet tea, Peter Chan for providing the score sheets, Adam Tansley and Irving Czechowicz for their assistance and Craig Fisher of the Manchester Bridge club for his hard work during the day.
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