Manchester Backgammon Club

Archive News 2004

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Liverpool Xmas Event
2004 Club Events Final Results




Ian Gwynne with Club Championship Trophy 2004

2004 Club Champion - final results
Name	Points
Ian Gwynne	34
Ian Shimwell	27
Uldis Lapikens	22
Rodney Lighton	17
Irving Czechowicz	16
Kevin Jones	15
Ron Havenhand	15
Peter Snape	14
Peter Bibby	14
Barry Teece	13
Tom Duignan	10
Ian Vaughan	11
Richard Johnson	9
Connor Dickinson	7
Nigel Shackleton	6
Gary Orme	6
Jim Davis	4
John Broomfield	4
Dave Smith	4
Bijan Mehdinejad	3
Philip Salts	3
Thomas Saint	3
Michael Crane	2
Ann Olbison	2
Jeni Chan	2
Fanika Petkovska	1
Owen Rankin	1
Nick	1

2004 11 point KO Championship
Round 1 (play by April 20th)	Round 2 (play by July 20th)	Semi Final (play by Oct 19th)	Final (play by Dec 21st)	Winner
	Nigel Shackleton
	Peter Bibby	Peter Bibby
Ian Shimwell
Ian Vaughan	Ian Vaughan		Peter Bibby
		Ian Vaughan
Richard Johnson
Barry Teece	Barry Teece
Irving Czechowicz				Ian Gwynne
Brian Lever	Irving Czechowicz
		Tom Duignan
Peter Snape
Tom Duignan	Tom Duignan
			Ian Gwynne
Rodney Lighton
Ian Gwynne	Ian Gwynne
		Ian Gwynne
Kevin Jones	Ron Havenhand
Ron Havenhand

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Club Competition Winners

Month	Winner	Runner up	Semi finalists/One Point 3rd and 4th		One Point Winner	One Point Runner up
Dec 2004 Swiss	Connor Dickinson	Uldis Lapikens			Ian Shimwell	Ian Vaughan
Dec 2004 1 point	Dave Smith	Ian Gwynne	Rodney Lighton	Fanika Petkovska
Dec 2004 KO	Gary Orme	Ian Gwynne			Gary Orme	Ian Shimwell
Nov 2004 Swiss	Rodney Lighton	Peter Bibby			Tom Duignan	Owen Rankin
Nov 2004 KO	Uldis Lapikens	Ian Vaughan			Jeni Chan	Irving Czechowicz
Oct 2004 Swiss	Ron Havenhand	Thomas Saint			Irving Czechowicz	Connor Dickinson
Oct 2004 1 point	Kevin Jones	Tom Duignan	Ann Olbison	Irving Czechowicz
Oct 2004 KO	Uldis Lapikens	Peter Bibby			Irving Czechowicz	Rodney Lighton
Sep 2004 Swiss	Ian Gwynne	Richard Johnson			Uldis Lapikens	Rodney Lighton
Sep 2004 KO	Ian Shimwell	Rodney Lighton			Connor Dickinson	Uldis Lapikens
Aug 2004 KO (MSO)	John Broomfield	Bijan Mehdinejad			Michael Crane	Uldis Lapikens
Aug 2004 Swiss	Ian Gwynne	Jim Davis			Ian Vaughan	Uldis Lapikens
Aug 2004 KO	Ian Gwynne	Uldis Lapikens			Ian Shimwell	Ian Gwynne
July 2004 Swiss	Ian Shimwell	Nigel Shackleton			Tom Duignan	Peter Snape
July 2004 KO	Ron Havenhand	Ian Shimwell			Uldis Lapikens	Barry Teece
June 2004 Swiss	Ian Gwynne	Philip Salts			Rodney Lighton	Peter Snape
June 2004 KO	Peter Snape	Barry Teece			Peter Bibby	Jim Davis
May 2004 Swiss	Ian Shimwell	Ian Gwynne			Irving Czechowicz	Ian Shimwell
May 2004 KO	Richard Johnson	Irving Czechowicz			Peter Snape	Uldis Lapikens
April 2004 Swiss	Peter Snape	Irving Czechowicz			Ron Havenhand	Irving Czechowicz
Mar 2004 Swiss	Kevin Jones	Barry Teece	Richard Johnson	Ian Gwynne	Barry Teece	Irving Czechowicz
Mar 2004 KO	Ian Shimwell	Tom Duignan			Ron Havenhand	Peter Bibby
Feb 2004 Swiss	Ian Vaughan	Ron Havenhand	Ian Gwynne	Tom Duignan	Rodney Lighton	Ian Shimwell
Feb 2004 KO	Barry Teece	Kevin Jones			Richard Johnson	Ian Shimwell
Jan 2004 Swiss	Kevin Jones	Nigel Shackleton			Peter Snape	Ian Vaughan
Jan 2004 KO	Ian Gwynne	Rodney Lighton	Michael Elliott	Ian Shimwell	Peter Bibby	Nick

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Connor wins at BIBA

Ian and Helen Wedding

Congratulations to club members Ian and Helen who were married on 25th September 2004.

Ian and Helen Shimwell

Mind Sports Olympiad 2004 - Four Medals for Manchester Members

Uldis and Irving (pictures courtesy of BIBA Director Michael Crane)

Ron Second at BIBA

Congratulations to club member Ron Havenhand who finished second (on a split tie) in BIBA's SAC Trophy event in August 2004.

2004 One Day Tournament

It is not often that it is warm enough in Manchester in April to play backgammon outside.  But on a beautiful sunny day several tables were taken outside onto the patio at Manchester Bridge Club as play got under way in the second annual 1 day tournament on Sunday 25th.  42 players mainly from the North and Midlands entered the tournament (up from 36 last year) including Michael Elliott from Blackpool who is aged 13.  In the afternoon five rounds of five point matches were played (Swiss format) with 16 players qualifying for the main final.  This meant that the nine players who won four or five matches qualified and the 11 players who finished on three wins went into a draw for the last seven places.  Michael Elliott did extremely well to win three of his matches (several illustrious names failed to achieve that) but was unlucky in the draw.

The main KO soon came down to a final between Simon Jones of Liverpool and relatively new tournament player Thomas Allsop of Mansfield.  Simon won comfortably 7-2, but Thomas and his partner Dawn Colley were to achieve further success. 

The consolation final was contested between two of the three Birmingham entrants, Fak Laight and David Mottley.  David won the first game, when after getting his last checker hit in the bear off, Fak eventually closed him out after several attempted escapes.  With all hope of a gammon gone David then remembered to cube Fak out, to the disappointment of the spectators who were looking forward to an exciting finish to the game.  However, that was to be David’s last point when Fak won the rest. 

Dawn won the Last Chance final against Manchester’s Peter Snape and in the one point shoot out tournament organiser Rodney Lighton’s amazing run of luck came to an end when he lost to Thomas Allsop in the final.

The tournament was played in a very friendly atmosphere.  Many thanks to Lorraine Lighton who worked very hard preparing a wonderful buffet tea and helped with the scoring and organisation, also to Peter Chan of Liverpool who provided the Swiss movement sheets.  We aim to run this tournament annually on the last Sunday of April (unless Easter is very late, when it will be a week earlier) and look forward to seeing another increased entry next year.