TN Tournament....

[Michael Holmes]

My son, Alex Holmes, has 5 (I am not sure who is winning in the minors) points in the minors after 2 rounds. My roommate from KY, Arthur Mays (wow! 100 % of his games he has won!), has 8 points in the majors, and Larry Keen has 7 (1st place so far)points in the Masters. Myself, Moiseyev, Webster, and many others are tie for 2nd place with 5 points.

I have plenty of accounting homework to do tonight but I will try to find some time to post more results.

[Michael Holmes]

At the end of round 3 in the Masters Larry Keen is in 1st place with 10 points. Moiseyev, Webster, and I (Michael Holmes) are tied for 2nd place with 9 points. Webster and Keen are playing and Moiseyev and I agreed to two draws after drawing 11-15 23-18 8-11 as an opening. Arthur Mays is in 1st place in the Majors with 15 out of 16 possible points so far in the Majors and my son is in 4th place in the Minors. A younng lady ( I heard around 19 so I might be wrong) by the name of Jasmine is in 1st place in the minors (Her 1st tournament!).

[Michael Holmes]

Change # 99!
Masters
Keen beat Webster.
Keen 13
Michael Holmes 11
Moiseyev 11
Webster 10

Majors (with some masters)
My good friend from the Louisville Checker club is in 1st place-Arthur Mays....He is also the one that showed me the Excailbur Cook (named after Arthur obviously)that the USA Team used to beat the Barbados Team in 2004.


Minors
Jasmine Jones is 16! She is tied for 1st place with someone else. My son leads by two. Those two played each other with 1 win a piece.

[JR Smith]

Masters after 6 rounds:
Alex Moiseyev 17*
Michael Homes 16
Larry Keen 16
John Webster 15
Anthony Bishop 13
John Estes 13
Herbert Reed 13
field of 20...


Majors after 6 rounds:
Authur Mays 19
Ed King 18
Bill McClintock 15
Jonathan McDonald 15
Byron Woolum 15
field of 17...


Minors after 6 rounds:
Jasmine Jones 19
Bobby Rice 16
Dennis Bullington 15
JR Smith 15

[Michael Holmes]

Correction on Masters!
Three way tie for 1st!
Michael Holmes
Larry Keen
and Moiseyev all have 16 points with only 4 games left to play tomorrow!
Don West and Moiseyev had two draws tonight instead of Moiseyev winning one game. The last game was adjucated a draw but Moiseyev thought he had a win. Guess what! Larry Keen saw the position and asked me to put it on the computer after it was adjudicated......the computer showed it as a draw too just the way Don West played it. Oh well.

[Michael Holmes]

I am learning about new (to me anyway) checker websites. Here is one created by Howard Gain and it already has pictures from this tournament posted on there!

http://www.mycheckerworld.com/mcw/

[Patrick Parker]

16 not 17 jr
chickens before the eggs hatched

[Patrick Parker]

jasmine jones well she is the winner of the minors by a comfortable margin and i hear she may be a model or something
but this may be just rumors who knows

ed kings wins majors

john webster...unofficially wins masters
holmes 2nd ?
alex m
lary keen
then maybe don west ....who managed two draws with alex
then 5 way tied 6-10

[Ingo_Zachos]

who is jasmine jones?

Maybe related to Vonda Jones (just a guess).

Greetinx from cold Europe,

Ingo Zachos

[Michael Holmes]

Actually, when I left the tournament John and I were tied for 1st place on regular points. We both had 21 points but Larry and Moiseyev were still playing. They both had 18 points. If they both tie then John and I are tied for 1st on regular points. The honor points are going to be close. I know out of the 7 people I played there were only a possible 3 players I played that John may not have played. The three I am talking about usually play high quality checkers so we'll just have to see what the end result is after the calculations. Also, this does mean there is a chance that Larry or Moiseyev will tie or beat us on points........unlikely though as they are even in strength.

[william]

Thanks for the account of ty michael

Sounds very exciting . lets see some of the top quality games please ,

Many thanks

william

[RMDionisio]

hey michael, congrats on the TN tournament thus far.......any plans on going to the IL state or the MO state tournament?

[Michael Holmes]

I cant go to the IL tourney but I am planning on going to the MO. Nothing definite yet. Do you want a roommate?

[RMDionisio]

too bad you cant go to IL michael, but i should def see you in MO then. is it in st joe or st joseph MO? dave stovie wanted me to pick up brian hinkle on my way there, but i think the ty is in st joseph, kind of near kansas city, west side of the state. ill room with you if youd like, keep in touch. got a facebook or myspace?

[Michael Holmes]

Frank Davis called me last night so I called him back this morning. He told me that they checked the Honor points over and over again. I am the winner of the TN tourney by 1 honor point over John Webster. He and I tied for 1st place with 21 regular points. Moiseyev and Larry Keen tied for 3rd and fourth place with 20 points. Moiseyev came in 3rd on Honor points.