Alabama State Tournament

[Nathan Gogo]

I dunno joshua armstrong.

[Patrick Parker]

i was thinking about responding to you and asking when you were
gonna hold the alabama tourny

[JR Smith]

Masters: Player, Rds Opponent T Points

Playing 7 rounds of Swiss, only repair last round

1. Davis, Frank 9T2 8T5 10T6 2T9 5T11 7T13 6T15
2. Gober, Wayne 6T2 3T5 4T7 1T8 7T11 11T14 4T15
3. Hallmark, Clyde 8T2 2T3 6T3 BT6 9T7 BT10 BT13
4. Keen, Larry 5T2 6T5 2T7 11T9 10T13 9T15 2T18 1st and 2010 District 5 Champion
5. Kelly, Harvey 4T2 9T6 11T8 10T10 1T12 6T14 9T17 2nd
6.Little, Roy 2T2 4T3 3T7 7T9 11T11 5T13 1T15
7. Pollard, Larry 11T1 BT4 8T7 6T9 2T10 1T12 11T14 2010 Alabama State Champion
8. Ramsey, Dallas 3T2 1T3 7T4 9T5 BT8 10T11 10T13
9.Stanley, Teal 1T2 5T2 BT5 8T8 3T11 4T13 5T14
10. Sweatmom, Earle BT3 11T5 1T8 5T10 4T10 8T11 8T13
11. Tucker, Albert 7T3 10T5 5T7 4T9 6T11 2T12 7T14


Majors: Player, Rds Opponent T Points[/b]

Playing 7 rounds of Swiss, only repair last round

1. Askins, Jerry 13T2 7T5 8T7 14T10 4T14 3T14 2T17
2. Blankenship, Bobby 3T1 12T2 5T4 7T6 9T10 4T13 1T14
3. Choate, Mike 2T3 6T6 4T9 10T13 13T15 1T19 13T20 1st and 2010 Alabama / D5 Majors Champion
4. Daniels, Clifford 5T4 11T6 3T7 6T10 1T10 2T11 14T13
5. Herben, Roy 4T0 8T0 2T2 9T6 11T6 12T10 12T13
6. Harvell, Earl 12T3 3T4 7T7 4T8 14T12 11T15 10T17
7. Hickman, Leonard 9T2 1T3 6T4 2T6 8T10 14T12 11T12
8. Mays, Shelby 11T0 5T4 1T6 13T6 7T6 withdrew
9. Persell, Foy 7T2 10T3 13T3 5T3 2T3 BT6 BT9
10. Powell, Harvey 14T2 9T5 11T9 3T9 12T13 13T15 6T17
11. Shultz, Ken 8T4 4T6 10T6 12T7 5T11 6T12 7T16
12. Smith, JR 6T1 2T4 14T5 11T8 10T8 5T8 5T9
13. Steelman, Lynn 1T2 14T3 9T7 8T11 3T13 10T15 3T18 2nd
14. Williamson, Ted 10T2 13T5 12T8 1T9 6T9 7T11 4T13

Minors:

Round Robin thru 5 rounds then last two Swiss

1. Atkins, James 2T0 3T0 BT3 6T4 4T5 BT8 BT11 5th
2. Helterbrand, Gayle 1T4 5T8 4T10 3T14 6T16 6T16 6T20 1st and 2010 Alabama / D5 Minors Champion
3. Hughs, Danny 4T2 1T6 6T6 2T6 BT9 4T11 4T15 3rd
4. Jones, Elbert 3T2 6T4 2T6 BT9 1T12 3T14 3T14 4th
5. Robbins, Jimmy 6T0 2T0 withdrew after 2nd round
6. Wolverton, Wilma 5T4 4T6 3T10 1T13 2T15 2T19 2T19 2nd

[Alex_Moiseyev]

I am sorry I was unable to make it this year, shame on poor Alex AL is in heart of America and also - in my heart!

I am glad to see that without undisputed leader there is a very tough competition with tie and close points for many players.

After 4 rounds in Master Division seven (!!!) players out of 11 have 10 and/or 9 points and 3 more players have 8 points ... WOW ! Mister Bye works very hard and can determine a winner at the very last moment

Good luck to everyone and best should win !

Regards,

Alex

[Alex_Moiseyev]

[waynegober]

Last round of Master

Keen(15)and Gober repair(14)
Kelley(14) and Stanley(13)

Keen won game and draw
Kelley won game and draw

Keen 18
Kelley 17
Gober 15
Stanley 14

may have been others that moved up with 15 but Keen and Kelley 1&2 and I may get 3rd on honor points having played Keen twice.

Mike Choate won Majors, Larry Pollard won Alabama title, Keen won Dist. title

dont know about minors but I think either Wilma or Gayle won that division

[waynegober]

Had this position with the red side against Larry Pollard in first game of our round. I was expecting to score a win but Larry gained a shocking draw !!!
I think it's a cute idea he saw crossboard.....

W:W30,29,26,24,20,19,17,13:B21,18,12,11,10,9,8,6.

Gober

Pollard
White to move and draw

[Alex_Moiseyev]

I think it's a cute idea he saw crossboard.....

It sure is, Larry is tuff sometimes !

District 4, Rd4, G1
A. Moiseyev vs L. Pollard

White to move and draw.

My last move was trade 8-11. Position on diagram looks unevenful but in fact - it is already critical for white and the only drawn move is 26-23*. In game Larry played 29-25? and lost as following:

11-15, 32-27, 6-9, 20-16, 2-7, 27-23, 9-13, 25-21, 14-17, 21x14, 7-11, 16x7, 3x17, 23x16, 12x19 Red Wins

Congratulations to all winners and new title holders.

[waynegober]

When Larry Pollard pulled the nice shot escape on me(see above fen), I wanted to stand and cheer. After our round he showed me a shot he used on Ryan Pronk to escape a sure defeat. Here is the position with terms of White to move and Draw.


Pronk

Pollard

If anyone knows of either shot being published please let me know where you saw
them.

[waynegober]

In this tournament, I had the privilege of playing Larry Keen twice. I am thrilled to have been at the top table in the last round (gave me a chance to win it all). That was not to be this time, however in our round 3 meeting, I lost the first side of the ballot, but on the second side was able to score my first ever win against this Master (boy am I thrilled) Here is how it went.

[Event "Alabama Open, Dist. 5"]
[Date "Nov 2010"]
[Black "Wayne Gober"]
[White "Larry Keen"]

1. 10-14 24-19 2. 7-10 22-18 3. 11-16 26-22 4. 8-11 22-17 5. 10-15 19x10 6. 6x22 25x18 7. 2-6 17x10 8. 6x22 28-24 9. 3-7 30-25 10. 22-26 31x22 11. 16-20 22-18 12. 1-6 *

Now Larry looked for quite some time and my hopes grew that he just might make the desired move !
white moved 21-17 creating the diagrammed position. The old Okie scored a lucky win.



Black to move and win

[JR Smith]

Thanks for sharing... I watched your 4th Round Game2 with Frank Davis which you almost had a win on Davis at least an advantage but Davis finally scrambled out and got a draw, but you showed us a win ending which Frank could have easly over looked and lost. He even admitted he didn't see this possibility and moved into it on replay, but said hopefully he wouldn't have stepped into it if you chose to set it up in actual play. That would be an excellent position to illustrate if you can set it up or even the 1st game.

[waynegober]

Hi J.R.,

Here are both games. Game 1 is a comedy of errors and has earned worst game of tournament for my games lol !!

Game 1
[Black "Frank Davis"]
[White "Wayne Gober"]

1. 10-14 24-20 2. 7-10 22-18 3. 3-7 25-22 4. 9-13 18x9 5. 5x14 28-24 6. 11-15 23-19 7. 7-11 26-23 8. 15-18 22x15 9. 11x18 32-28 10. 8-11 29-25 11. 11-15 30-26 12. 13-17 20-16 13. 6-9 16-11 14. 17-22 26x17 15. 9-13 24-20 16. 13x29 21-17 17. 15x24 28x19 18. 14x21 23x7 19. 29-25 7-3 20. 25-22 3-7 21. 1-6 7-3 22. 21-25 11-8 23. 4x11 3-8 24. 6-10 8x6 25. 2x9 20-16 26. 25-30 16-11 27. 30-26 Black Wins

Game 2

My game record is messed up on this game and couldn't quickly reconstruct but this is the landing in game 2 with Frank. Frank had asked for a draw twice before during this game but I had a chance with a king majority. I had been pressing the position for several moves when we arrived at the following position. For several moves, I had meant to make the proper attacking move next and can not explain why I went 22-17 which has no merit. The proper move was shown after the game and Frank said he would have moved 13-9 in reply. I was sick that I didn't properly play the ending though it really all draws.


Black to play

[JR Smith]

Here is Frank Davis Result Chart

http://www.nccheckers.org/NCCA/2010%20A ... sition.htm