"Beijing Olympic Draughts Tourney" book

[Alex_Moiseyev]

Yet to the moment we have agreement of the following players/analysts to participate in this project:

1. I. Zachos, Germany
2. A. Moiseyev, USA
3. H. Devlin, Ireland
4. S. McCosker, Ireland
5. M. Shabshai, Israel
6. M. Holmes, USA
7. O. Kolin, Ukraine
8. J. Morgan, Wales
9. W. Docherty, Scotland
10. R. Beckwith, USA

I also want personally invite here Jim Loy and Tommy Canning and any other volunteers will be very welcome. Please, contact with me over emai RUSMS + @ + JUNO.COM if you have an interest and want to be a member of team. There will be alot of various units of work around, enough to keep everyone busy !

Regards,

Alex

[Alex_Moiseyev]

different annotators have different preferences.

I assigned myself to position of team manager ! All formats, diagrams, fonts, sizes will be standartizes and unufied finally at the highest level but originally everyone can write in any convience way they prefer. Final text will be re-formatted without changing contest. Some games maybe annotatated and commented by more than person ... something similar to what we had with "8th IM" book.

John, I am accepting your offer!

Alex

[Alan Millhone]

Put me down for two copies when completed.

Regards:
Alan

[Alex_Moiseyev]

1. I. Zachos, Germany
2. A. Moiseyev, USA
3. H. Devlin, Ireland
4. S. McCosker, Ireland
5. M. Shabshai, Israel
6. M. Holmes, USA
7. O. Kolin, Ukraine
8. J. Morgan, Wales
9. W. Docherty, Scotland
10. R. Beckwith, USA

Tommy Canning finally joined a book team which certainly should significantly increase the quality of entire work and final product! In addition, John Acker will help us with editing. I think we'll stick into this list and stay with it to the rest.

Some annotators will take care of one or two "full rounds", other will annotate their games.

I'll keep you inform here with status of project from time to time.

Regards,

Alex

[Mac Banks]

Hello Alex,

If you need any more people to annonate the games I will gladly volunteer. Looks like you have a good cross section already but will be gladly to give my thoughts on the games.

All the best,
Mac

[Alex_Moiseyev]

Hello Alex,

If you need any more people to annonate the games I will gladly volunteer. Looks like you have a good cross section already but will be gladly to give my thoughts on the games.

All the best,
Mac

deal !!! Mac, I will contact with you soon about details and assigning unit of work.

[william]

Hell what a team ;

I also reserve a copy of book too please , oh which makes me wonder , who is taking the orders lol

Let's make this the book of the century guys

All the best

WILLIAM DOCHERTY

[Alex_Moiseyev]

William / Mac,

I need your email addresses. Please, send me contact email by

RUSMS + @ + JUNO.COM

and I will add your emails to my list.

Regards,

Alex

[william]

This reply is for Alex but also all the people i met and re met in china ;

sybill3@wanadoo.fr

Looking forward to hearing from you all

william

[Mac Banks]

Hello Alex,

I sent you my email and mailing address to your email address but will post it here also.
mbanks36@hotmail.com. My mailing address is Mac Banks, 2259 Bannerwood Street,
Henderson, NV 89044. My phone number is 702-927-9554. Anyone visiting Las Vegas, just call me if you are a checker player and I will take you out for lunch.

All the best,
Mac

[Alex_Moiseyev]

Thanks, Mac !

Here is a final (so far!) list members of "Beijing Book" team

1. I. Zachos, Germany
2. A. Moiseyev, USA
3. H. Devlin, Ireland
4. S. McCosker, Ireland
5. M. Shabshai, Israel
6. M. Holmes, USA
7. O. Kolin, Ukraine
8. J. Morgan, Wales
9. W. Docherty, Scotland
10. R. Beckwith, USA
11. T. Canning, Ireland
12. M. Banks, USA
13. J. Loy, USA
14. J. Acker, USA

Having such outstanding mail players as Mac, Tommy and Jim on this list would guarantee us that the final product not only will have a high quality annotations and analyses, but also a proper and accurate references/credits/transpositions etc, which will make the whole book professional at the ever possible highest calibre !

Regards,

Alex

[Ingo_Zachos]

You should "error-check" the game sheets of the players
Looks like the hands begin to tremble around move 20 in many cases, and especially in the later rounds the handwritimg deteriorates
Many players, including World Champions, write down "9-13" meaning 24-20 or "27-23" meaning 6-10.
We should recommend to use numbered boards to avoid or minimize these mistakes.
I have edited rounds 1-5 completely so far, but a few games need "error checking", so I will publish them as soon as I have entered all games and checked the "questionable" games twice or thrice, as otherwise a few players would be upset about the "mistakes" I made.
Maybe a "brilliancy "price for the best written gamescores would be a an excellent idea )

Greetinx from cold and rainy Europe,

Ingo Zachos

[S_McCosker]

Hi Ingo,

Your doing a good job logging through all those games because im sure its quite difficult with all the different handwriting.

We should recommend to use numbered boards to avoid or minimize these mistakes.

The current WCDF rules specify for the Offical board not to be numbered.
1.6 These numbers should not be printed on an official draughtboard.

I know some players have a problem and dont like to see numbers on the boards and I know this would obviously reduce some score sheet errors but of course it would mean convincing the players to adopt these conditions. Perhaps players should adopt the oldbury notation were this would avoid 27-23 instead of 6-10 etc.. I think dereks argument was that it is easier to spot C.R. transpositions but I cant see this style of notation being adopted anytime soon. I know current score sheets tend to have a numbered board on them for both sides so I supose this is the solution in vogue for now.

Regards,

Shane McCosker

[Alex_Moiseyev]

Ingo, you can write an article (0.5-1 page) for book: "How I processed score sheets" or "Complexity of recording" ... etc

You can aslo make a photos of most interesting score sheets and insert it into text. No kidding, this will be fun and attract readers.

Alex

[william]

Well done Ingo

You are doing a truly immense job .

As Shane says , deciphering 42 peoples hand- writing is a huge job , but it's even bigger when the writing is done under stress of play , etc. etc.

Good luck to you , oh and if you ever manage to uncode my game round 1 game 2 then I'd be grateful if you could mail it to me , as I can't read my bloody writing on the scoresheet!!!

Greetings from rainy paris

WILLIAM DOCHERTY