Have a good New Year, be wealthy and healthy, have piece in your house and heart.
Here is a list of best acomplishments in checkers in 2010 in my eyes.
1) Michele Borghetti (Italy) graciously won 3-moves QT and earned 2000 EURO and rights to play world title match.
2) Ron King retained his title of the GAYP World Champion by winning narrowly Match against Richard Beckwith (USA). Ron King also finished 1st in Irish Open and 2nd in QT and USA Open.
3) Richard Beckwith won one GAYP game against Ron King and this was his (Suki) first lost in GAYP game since 2004 ! And of course Richard was very busy and booked this year with many other activities. Fantastc hardworker. I wish I have a miserable dozen of his energy and enthusiasm !
4) Kim Wills started checkers classes in school ! WOW. Lets thanks her and wish her good luck in her journey. Way to go, madam !
5) I was lucky to win 3-moves USA Open. Also this year achieved GMI norm in Composition CPI FMJD (finished 2nd in ending World Contest and won several International contests)
6) John Acker also was very active this year: organised wonderful USA NAtional in Springfield, ran website and of course - participated in re-printing classic "Basic Checkers" by R. Fortman. John - many thanks for your service.
7) Shane McCosker finished 3rd in QT without losing any single game ! And I suspect he didn't lose any game in the past 2 years (am I wrong with my assumption ?). In the past several years he was always extremely close to money, but ... no cigars !
6) Joseph LaConti and his company sponsored again world title match and other checkers events this year. This is 3rd time in the row (and maybe not last) when World Title Match was secured and plyed in Medina. Many thanks to Joe for his help and support !
7) Jim Loy wrote several books.
John Webster was the only one who scored win on me this year in TN - out of 150 games which I played in total.9) Michael Holmes married which I beleive is certainly good news for checkers !
10) I also would like to thanks personally JR for his tremendous efforts and service. No significant accomplishments, but every day he does his job which needs to be done. Without his website our life would be much more boring and we miss alot of things. Thanks again !
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Respectfully,
Alex Moiseyev
Did you add here my games from VOG ? I didn't find any and there were about 400 or 500 in archive.
