IRISH OPEN /QUALIFER 2010

[Bernard Coll]

Ingo, My friend, Same rules apply here as any other tourney. 156 move ballot.You get the opening of your choice! Fortune is down to the player handling the red pieces.

[tommyc]

Well as Halloween draws ever closer im not going to pull any false faces Ingo,i will let those with more knowledge reply to your post...and Happy Halloween to all.


Becasue what might be an "apparent" blunder after being in a win to you ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
It was actually Shane and Myles who were of this opinion.
As for the Borg/King games id say that is the property of the WCDF (i wouldnt be privy to them not being in the Wcdf)....would you think?

[Michael Holmes]

Ron told me he saw two ways to win, bth 25-22 and 26-22, but in reality only 26-22 will win. He said he showed this win to the WQT Champ right after they had played the game. I would also argue that both Shane McCosker and Michael Shabsai are NOT equally hard to beat since Shane is the only one that never lost a game!

[tommyc]

Interesting............so we assume there was a win.Are you still in Dublin Michael?

[Ingo_Zachos]

Tommy, the beginning of any failure is an appatent assumption.

Maybe Ron King assumed that the position was a complete win, but apparently it was not, as there was a way to lose it.

And the master is not the one that knows that it is a win, as any students could know that as it has been shown to them.

The master is the one that knows how to win, ie that finds it.


I am just a bad student, so I want to be shown how it happend.

Greetinx,
Ingo

[tommyc]

Ingo ............address your concerns to some 1 who can show you!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bernard Coll]

Would the last poster here please remember to switch off the lights!

[kiwinurse]

From a Hotel in Leeds,I want to offer my congratulations to Michelle, a truly fine man and player,may he have great success in his pursuit for the top next year.Also my congratulations to Toyeva.We were equal in points,but she gained 1 extra point playing Kim in the last morning.
I think Kim is going to print out the crosstables on here. She talked about it.I also think for myself im done with womens checkers and would like to participate in the mens in future matches.In the meantime im having a great time in England,tomorrow i travel to Edinburgh. Looking forward to it.
Thankyou Irish players for showing us a great time.The Irish open was such a fun time. Theyre a great bunch.regards Jan Mortimer

[Ingo_Zachos]

Final Standings:

General Class ("Men"):


Place Name Nation Title Elo Points Sonneborn/Berger

1 Borghetti, Michele ITA - - 23 417
2 King., Ron BAR GM 2556 23 412
3 McCosker, Shane NIR GM 2408 20 346
4 Webster, John USA IM 2357 20 329
5 Schwatz. Joe USA IM 2382 19 330
6 Owens, Garrett IRL IM 2363 18 286
7 Durdyev, Baghtiyar TRM GM 2444 17 284
8 Tovagliaro, Roberto ITA CM 2319 17 280
9 Holmes, Michael USA IM 2272 17 277
10 Martynov, Igor GER IM 2330 17 273
11 Shabshai, Michael ISR IM 2384 17 267
12 Hannigan, Myles NIR IM 2378 17 246
13 Morrison, Jim USA GM 2411 16 253
14 Durdyev, Bashim TRM IM 2290 16 230
15 Durdyeva, Amangul TRM IM 2406 16 202
16 Kareta, Filip CZE IM 2286 15 231
17 Young, Colin SCO IM 2255 14 193
18 Wien, Thomas GER - 1990 14 156
19 Moran, Frank IRL IM 2227 13 166
20 Oliphant, Danny SCO IM 2180 12 149
21 Boyle, Anthony ENG IM 2237 12 148
22 Doyle, Paddy IRL CM 2255 11 133
23 Rose, Anthony ENG - 2149 10 121
24 Tichy, Jaroslav CZE - 2069 10 119


Women:
1 1 2 2 3 3
1 Toyeva, Hugmangul TRM 2086 X X 2 2 3 4 11
2 Mortimer, Jan NZL 1903 2 2 X X 3 3 10
3 Willis, Kim USA 1741 1 0 1 1 X X 3

Youth:

Durdyev, Maksat TRM 1727 4 3 2 4 13
Gochakov, Gochmyrat TRM 1433 0 1 2 0 3


Thx to John Reade and Graham Young.


Greetinx from cloudy Dortmund,

Ingo Zachos

[Ingo_Zachos]

And here are the winners:

"Grande" Michele Borghetti:



And youthful, 18 yers old, Hugmangul Toyeva




Greetinx from Dortmund, Germany

Ingo Zachos

[Jolt]

Looking good Michele.

[Alex_Moiseyev]

Several photos from Igor Martinov. Igor also published very interesting colourful observation of his trip and play in Dublin on Russian checkers site I copied several photos from his post here.

[Ingo_Zachos]

An english version of his report will be published soon.


Greetinx from cloudy Germany,

Ingo Zachos


P.S:
Note how close Michele is watching the game between Michael and Roberto.
As if he knew he had to beat Michael twice in the last round.

[JR Smith]

Here are some pictures of the Irish Open QT which Kim took or someone she knew. They downloaded them to
SkyDrive. I download the images so you can view them indefinitely from NC website under the 2010 Irish event. You don't have to worry about SkyDrive deleting the files after 06/02/2011. This was setup to share thru Windows.
http://www.nccheckers.org/NCCA/2010%20I ... Photos.htm

[tommyc]

See more photos of the Irish Open and QT Dublin 2010 on our new updated site............htpp;//www.irishdraughts.org
http://www.irishdraughts.org