The 2021 Illustrious checke ty

[williamdocherty]

Hi checker friends

The SDA & WCDF 2021 Zoom International Checker ty.
To all my checker connections, Danny Oliphant and myself will be organizing this international ty. Which shall be played via Zoom platform.
This post is to inform you all of the intention, and obtain feedback on your eventual participation. Therefore please PM me your email addresses if you are interested in participating.
*Some important points to note
The ty will be played over 7 weeks at the rate of 1 round per week
Set up is based on Fifa World cup draw into groups then knockout
The day of play is the sunday at 15h00 UK time
The player must have a playing room, that can be isolated by a door. All players must show the referees their playing room, prior to entry approval into ty. and before each game the players must present a panoramic view of their room to their opponents
Entry fee is 120£
ty is to be rated by WCDF
3 move
* All rules, established by the SDA, WCDF, D.Oliphant and myself are non negociable...
Send me your emails rapidly, and pass this information onto your checker contacts :!we don’t want anyone to be forgotten in this, what most likely will be , the most prestigious event ever!!
Don’t forget though, we only want honest and sporting players... the others are not welcome to wasting my or the other players time.

[williamdocherty]

By the way

I'd like to see in this ty
Docherty
Sloan
Watson
Moiseyev
Scarpetta
Bernini
Borghetti
Morrison
Beckwith
King
Francis
Kondlo
Pask
McCosker
Devlin
Garret Owens
L. Edwards
Shabshai
The Durdyev family
Martinov
SA players, not named
US players not named
UK players not named
Worldwide players not named

PM me on FB or messenegr or here with your email
Regards

[williamdocherty]

Good evening Checker players

The 2021 SDA/WCDF international ty will be starting at the beginning of March.
For all those who wish to participate please send an email to billy.docherty@hotmail.fr

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[champion374]

Will there be Wdcf ratings off this tournament? How is entry paid.

[williamdocherty]

Yes Kent, this ty will be WCDF rated.
Payment details will be sent out later, but the payment will be made via bank transfer for example to the SDA (D. Oliphant , president of the SDA) account

[champion374]

Ok will pass it on to the players in Barbados and im very interested in it.

[champion374]

120 pounds is about 400 Barbados dollars but i will try to get it.

[champion374]

I guess since this tournament to be rated by Wcdf the rest of tournaments before it that were not rated would be ,in fairness for players who did not play in this one.

[jimloy]

Any news about games or not?

[J_D_C_]

The players voted to play this event FIFA style. Players were put into 4 groups of 4. The top two in each group advance. Rounds 1 and 2 are complete. The third and final round is in progress. Here are the Round 1 Results:

Group A:
A Moiseyev: 10
T Zaitseva: 7
P Aaron: 5
K Foubister: 2

Group B:
S McCosker: 9
D Oliphant: 8
A Holmes: 6
T Gallagher: 1

Group C:
B Docherty: 9
R Beckwith: 7
D Pawlek: 5
A Harper: 3

Group D:
S Scarpetta: 8
J Chappell: 7
K Layne: 6
J Jolliff: 3

[J_D_C_]

Round 2 Results (ties were resolved by a series of tiebreak rules):

Group A:
A Moiseyev: 9
J Chappell: 6
B Docherty: 6
D Oliphant: 3

Group B:
S McCosker: 7
S Scarpetta: 7
R Beckwith: 6
T Zaitseva: 4

Group C:
P Arron: 9
J Jolliff: 7
D Pawlek: 5
T Gallagher: 3

Group D:
A Holmes: 10
A Harper: 6
K Layne: 6
K Foubister: 2

[williamdocherty]

Good evening Jim

Danny and I are extremley pleased to announce that the Zoom 3 move Int. Ty that we are organizing and running right now is going extremely well.
There have been absolutely no issues with cheating, and only a few minor problems with getting fixtures set up and a few connection problems.

We are already into the final phase groups where 4 players ; Scarpetta, Moiseyev, McCosker and Chappell are fighting for the top 4 spots. Jon is having a great ty and I hope he will remain more active now that he is back playing.

Fighting for 5th to 8th spots are Oliphant, Tanya, Beckwith and myself. Again, Danny and Tanya are having a very good ty too which is very good to see.

Fighting for 9th to 12th is Holmes, Aaron, Joliff and Harper and for 13th to 16th is Pawlek, Gallagher, Foubister and Layne.

My idea when setting up this ty layout was to allow the weaker players who never get a chance to play a Grandmaster or world (ex) champion to be able to pit their skills against them. This has been successful.

Danny is responsable for receiving the games, and will be editing them all in a small book ; the funds of which will go to SDA and WCDF.
Some games have been published on FB and perhaps others will follow, but in any case it will be seen that there is a certain amount of 'rust' in the play of all players, and here again the aim of this ty was to also get the top players (all 16 players present in this ty therefore) to get back to playing again ; this was a success too.

On behalf of Danny and myself, the BIG thanks goes to the players who are making this ty an unforgettable one ; the FIRST International ZOOM TY 2021

[Lavender]

What is the current status of this tournament? Information seems to be very limited.

[J_D_C_]

The tournament concluded in early June. Alex had been posting the weekly results on Facebook. The results after the third and final group play our as follows:

Group A:
1. A Moiseyev: 8 (won on honor points)
2. S Scarpetta 8
3. S McCosker 5
4. J Chappell 3

Group B:
5. R Beckwith 9
6. B Docherty 7
7. D. Oliphant 4
8. T Zaitseva 4

Group C:
9. A Holmes 10
10. P Aaron 7
11. A Harper 4
12. J Joliff 3

Group D:
13. K Layne 10
14. D Pawlek 9
15. T Gallagher 3
16. K Foubister 2