"Beijing Olympic Draughts Tourney" book

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Re: "Beijing Olympic Draughts Tourney" book

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Just wanted to say that project still alive and doing well. Me and Ingo exchanged recently by emails. He ensured me that he will be re-activated and games will be processed in the nearest future. I suggested to him to concentrate first on games which is "easy to recover" and any trouble-scoresheets leave behind and work on them later.

Perhaps everyone remember, that Anglo-American event in Beijing ran into troubles at the end and get out of scoresheets, and only one scoresheet was provided for each game.

Ingo said that few scoresheets look truly like "hieroglips" and I suggested him for 100% non-recoverable scoresheets - scan them and include photos into the book as it is ! Ha-Ha Future checkers archeologists will be busy :lol:

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Re: "Beijing Olympic Draughts Tourney" book

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Hallo,

I finished proceeding rounds 1-5 completely and gave them to Alex.
Rounds 6-9 r still in progress.
Though I finished to enter most games in rounds 6-9, some (many) r still left "unreadable" at my 1st attempt to reconstruct them.
You will see that even in rounds 1-5 many r left as "unreadable", but I tried here to reconstruct as much as possible.
But in these 4 rounds many games need a 2nd attempt, as espcially in the critical situations after leaving book knowledge and standard moves the games become harder and harder to read, probably because the tension made it harder to concentrate on the game and on writing properly.
Also in the later rounds many games we ran out of sheets and so many games r only reonstructed from one shhet, which makes it especially difficult.
But I know that especially these situatons r the most valuable in any book, so I need a few days to look closer and finish them.
Just want you to know that it will be done in the next days.

After that I will also finish work on translating my German Open 2007 bulletin into an English Version and I will work on theGerman Open bulletins 2006 (annotations by Liam Stephens) and 2008 after that as well as on annotating my own Beijing games and to write a chapter on player biographies in the WMSG book project.

BTW: The German Open will be held from August 14th to August 16th in Korbach, Germany.
It will be 7 Rounds Swiss-System in GAYP and 45 Minuted per game, two games each round.
Reservations and registration can be made : nimzo@gmx.de

Greetinx from sunny Dortmund,

Ingo Zachos
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Well done, Ingo. I sympathise with your problems in trying to decipher illegible game transcriptions, a situation I have also experienced in the past when compiling games from British and Irish Tys.
My advice would be to completely omit any games that are illegible. I think Jim Loy's proposal to have numbered boards introduced for the major tournaments is now incontrovertible.

Regards - Liam.
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Hmmmm........ I always read "Cannings Dictionary" every day.
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