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Archive News 2012

Championship 2012
The final evening saw an exciting end to a close championship.  Rodney Lighton and Mark Calderbank started the evening level (after Mark had caught up 5 points in the past 2 weeks).  Unfortunately for Mark he failed to get any points, while Rodney won a 5 point KO to forge ahead.  Abdollah (who had been challenging for first place for much of the year) and George were in contention for third place.  In the final 1 point event of the evening they met each other, George winning to leave them tied in third place.   Thanks to all members for their support this year and we hope to see everyone back for another season in 2013.

Rodney finished the season with more successes, beating Brian Lever in the final of the club 11 point KO and winning the Saturday tournament on 29th December.

Final 1 point

Abdollah and George play their final 1 pointer
Mark Calderbank watching

First four

Abdollah Ahmadi, George Hall, Rodney Lighton, Mark Calderbank


1
Rodney Lighton 97
2
Mark Calderbank 94
3
Abdollah Ahmadi 86
4
George Hall 86
5
Paul Harper 69
6
Irving Czechowicz 65
7
Bob Slater 63
8
Fanika Petkovska 49
9
Richard Coburn 48
10
Maurice Ekpenyong 45
11
Neil Smith 45
12
David Nicholson 44
13
Kevin Jones 41
14
Paul Garlick 40
15
Roger Keys 23
16
Ellie Lighton 23
17
Gill Burgess 18
18
Ana Mancino 10
19
Stuart Shalom 9
20
Samya Abdullah 8
21
Ian Shimwell 7
22
Phil Day 6
23
Nikos Fragos 6
24
Paul Thompson 6
25
David Phillips 5
26
Igal Farshi 4
27
Crispin Duke 3
28
Brian Lever 3
29
Ian Haworth 2
30
Adrian Jones 2
31
Judith Roche 2
32
Messi
2
33
Peter Bibby 1
34
John Durrant 1
35
Steve Taylor 1

Click here for the full spreadsheet

2012 11 Point KO

Preliminary Round
by mid April

Round 1
by end June

Round 2
by end August

Semi-final
by end October

Final
by end Dec

Winner  
Paul Garlick
Richard Coburn




Richard Coburn

Carl Dell






Kevin Jones

Carl Dell












Rodney Lighton

Neil Smith

Kevin Jones



Kevin Jones





















Rodney Lighton











Rodney Lighton


Rodney Lighton







Rodney Lighton

Abdollah Ahmadi





Dorothy Lee


Dorothy Lee



Peter Bibby





Maurice Ekpenyong
Irving Czechowicz
Irving Czechowicz
Roger Keys






Brian Lever


Roger Keys












Brian Lever

Ian Shimwell


Brian Lever



Brian Lever






Paul Harper


George Hall






Ellie Lighton

George Hall





Ellie Lighton


Ellie Lighton


Bob Slater
Mark Calderbank

Mark Calderbank


Shesh Besh
Brian Lever beat Abdollah Ahmadi in the final of the tournament held at the Sha'are Hayim synagogue.  Igal Farshi won the consolation beating Peter Chan from Liverpool.
Final

Abdollah Ahmadi in play against Brian Lever
Watching is David Nicholson
Igal

Igal Farshi receives his trophy for the consolation event


Manchester One Day
Sunday April 22nd 2012
With entries from Bournemouth to Edinburgh arriving on a typical Manchester day, the atmosphere was far from gloomy at Manchester Bridge Club.  Everyone enjoyed the day of backgammon, food and socialising.  The 48 entrants played 5 rounds of 5 point matches starting at 11 a.m.  By 4 pm we had 16 qualifiers for the main knockout and the other 32 played in the consolation.

The main was won for the first time in ten years of this tournament by a Manchester player.  Alastair Woods seemed to be in a strong position leading 6-2 in a 7 point match, but he lost the Crawford game followed by a doubled gammon to George Hall.  In the consolation final last year's main winner Dan Tutchings beat Dorothy Lee in a match that started slowly with Dorothy getting a 2-1 lead.  However the next game featured a cube at 4 and Dan won that and the title.  Martin Barkwill, making his first appearance at the Manchester tournament, beat John Wright in the last chance final.

In the 1 point final Angie Dell had a hard luck story to beat most.  With Rodney Lighton on the bar closed out the trophy seemed to be in her grasp.  Her outfield checker on the 15 point was only hampered by Rodney's midpoint.  Two double threes in a row meant that her board broke, Rodney entered, hit her last checker, managed to contain it and finally close it out to pull off a several thousand to one win.

Thanks, as always, to Irving Czechowicz, Annette Jones, Kevin Jones and Lorraine Lighton for directing, scoring, administration and catering.  Also to club members for helping to set up and to Manchester Bridge Club for hosting the event.

Thanks also to the generosity of participants who donated £114 to Marie Curie nurses.

Alastair and george

Alastair Woods and George Hall

Dan and Dorothy

Dan Tutchings and Dorothy Lee
John and Martin

John Wright and Martin Barkwill

Rodney and Angie

Rodney Lighton and Angie Dell
lorraine

Lorraine Lighton receives flowers from Irving for her catering and admin. efforts.
In the background Mark Calderbank, Abdollah Ahmadi,
Paul Barwick, David Pritchard and Rachel Rhodes



Main
Consolation
Last Chance
One pointer
Winner
George Hall
Dan Tutchings
Martin Barkwill
Rodney Lighton
Second
Alastair Woods
Dorothy Lee
John Wright
Angie Dell
3/4
Adrian Jones
Paul Barwick
Deanna Fawcett
Andy Darby

Tony Fawcett
Ron Havenhand
Andy Darby
Michael Barrows
5/8
Peter Chan
David Wallbank
Roger Keys
Peter Chan

Maurice Ekpenyong
Arthur Wright
Angie Dell
Robert Perry

Kevin Jones
Brian Lever
Richard Biddle
Bob Slater

Arthur Williams
Mark Calderbank
Kevin Stebbing
Rachel Rhodes