Manchester Backgammon Archive 2008

Irving Wins Club Championship

In an exciting finish to the club championship for 2008 Irving charged up the final straight from fourth place and sprinted past Brian Lever, Susan Bourne and George Hall, who all fell at the final fence failing to get championship points, to win by 2 points at the end of a long and exciting competition. Well done to all of them.

Susan and George finished second equal with Brian fourth.

Founder member Ian Shimwell presented prizes and trophies.

Ian Shimwell and Irving Czechowicz

Ian with George and Susan

2008 Club Championship Final Table
1	Irving	Czechowicz	83
2=	Susan	Bourne	81
2=	George	Hall	81
4	Brian	Lever	79
5	Rodney	Lighton	74
6	David	Phillips	67
7	Dorothy	Lee	59
8	Kevin	Jones	57
9	Steve	Grundy	55
10	Jon	Williams	51
11	Nigel	Shackleton	49
12	Paul	Harper	46
13	Maurice	Ekpenyong	45
14	Paul	Garlick	45
15	Fanika	Petkovska	34
16	Roger	Keys	33
17	Andrew	Smith	28
18	Richard	Coburn	27
19	Richard	Johnson	22
20	Samya	Abdullah	21
21	Rob	Landsman	17
22	Rachel	Rhodes	12
23	Carl	Dell	11
24	Jamie	Evans	9
25	David	Wright	9
26	Nir	Yedid	9
27	Peter	Bibby	8
28	Igal	Farshi	8
29	Peter	Snape	8
30	John	Wright	8
31	Jim	Davis	7
32	Ian	Shimwell	7
33	Ellie	Lighton	6
34	Janet	Morris	6
35	Mike	Hanson	5
36	Sam	Pickles	5
37	Steve	Taylor	5
38	Vicky	Chandler	4
39	Angie	Dell	4
40	Barrie	McCluney	4
41	Sarah	Yedid	4
42	John	Edelstein	3
43	Luan	Howitt	3
44	Len	Nixey	3
45	Steve	Pritchard	3
46	Daniel	Farshi	2
47	Jason	Harrison	2
48	Adam	Jackson	2
49	Adrian	Jones	2
50	Alan	Mayery	2
51	Alex	Newgrosh	2
52	Avi	Nosrati	2
53	Mike	Samuels	2
54	Paul	Thomson	2
55	Daniel	Toubkin	2
56	Danny		2
57	Tim	Chandler	1
58	Stuart	Shalom	1

Click here for the full week by week spreadsheet

2008 11 Point KO
Championship points Winner 8 + £60, Runner up 6 + £30, Semi-finalists 4 + £15, Quarter-Finalists 2
Preliminary Round by end March	Round 1 by end June	Round 2 by end August	Semi-final by end October	Final by end Dec	Winner
Paul Harper	Paul Harper
Fanika Petkovska		Dorothy Lee
			Steve Grundy
	Dorothy Lee

				George Hall
	Brian Lever
		Steve Grundy

Steve Grundy	Steve Grundy
Rodney Lighton					* Susan Bourne *

Irving Czechowicz	Kevin Jones
Kevin Jones		Kevin Jones
			George Hall
	Roger Keys


	Jon Williams
		George Hall

George Hall	George Hall
Nigel Shackleton

Ian Shimwell	Ian Shimwell
Andrew Smith		Ian Shimwell
			Susan Bourne
	Len Nixey

				Susan Bourne
	Maurice Ekpenyong
		Susan Bourne

Susan Bourne	Susan Bourne
Paul Garlick

Mark Trunkfield	Rob Landsman
Rob Landsman		Rob Landsman
			Richard Johnson
	Jim Davis


	Richard Johnson
		Richard Johnson

Samya Abdullah	Jamie Evans
Jamie Evans

Backgammon Live in London

Congratulations to Jon Williams who won the 64 player 7 point KO at London on the weekend of 8-9th November. Susan Bourne also won various trophies in other events.

Jon Williams and Susan Bourne

Susan wins 11 point KO

Congratulations to Susan Bourne who, after five rounds of tough 11 point KO matches, triumphed in a close 11-10 win over George Hall to win the 2008 event.

Susan and George

Fanika at Venice

Congratulations to Fanika Petkovska who won the Ladies tournament and the amateur last chance at the Venice International at the end of November.

Silver for Irving

Congratulations to Irving Czechowicz who won a silver medal at the MSO tournament in London. He won 5/6 games in the Vincent Square Cup to tie with Peter Bennett, John Reddington and Nicky Check. On sum of opponents scores Peter and Irving were 1st=, but Peter won their individual match, so was awarded the Gold.

Manchester One Day Tournament 2008

Sunday 13th April 2008

	Main	Consolation	Last Chance	One pointer
Winner	Mike Hanson	John Wright	Angie Dell	Paul Gilbertson
Second	Myke Wignall	Nick Hession	Simon Jones	Rachel Rhodes
3/4	Rodney Lighton	Matthew Fisher	Adrian Jones	Ralph Eskinazi
	Peter Snape	Rob Landsman	George Hall	Kevin Jones
5/8	Peter Chan	Jim Davis	Samya Abdullah	Roger Keys
	Nigel Shackleton	Fak Laight	Neil Everitt	John Wright
	Vicky Chandler	Rachel Rhodes	Vicky Chandler	Phil Tutchings
	Kevin Jones	Carl Dell	Jon Williams	Matthew Fisher

Intermediate Prizes

Paul Garlick
Andrew Smith
Mike Hanson
Carl Dell

Manchester’s 6th annual One Day Tournament was attended by 54 players at Manchester Bridge Club on Sunday 13th April.

This year was our first international event with Tom Duignan from Ireland and Mike Hanson flying in from Dubai, there were also three current or former British Open champions in the field.

As usual five rounds of 5 point matches in the afternoon qualified the top 16 (some who won 3 matches by random draw) for the main final and the rest played in a consolation. No British champions managed to qualify.

Mike Hanson qualified and then won his first 2 matches in the knock out phase. However, he had to get back to the airport to take his plane back to Dubai. An expected train journey was now turned into a taxi booking. His 7 point match semi final became a 5 point match against Rodney Lighton. He quickly won 5-0 and now had only half an hour left to play the final. Myke Wignall very sportingly agreed to play a 3 pointer and two quick games later, Mike H was clutching a trophy, prize money and taking the taxi to the airport where he was in time to get his plane and passengers back to Dubai.

Liverpool players dominated the Consolation and Last Chance with John Wright beating Nick Hession in the former and a very delighted Angie Dell beating Simon Jones in the Last Chance.

Paul Gilbertson beat Rachel Rodes to win the one point.

As usual everyone enjoyed the buffet lunch and tea, the backgammon and the occasion. Thanks to Lorraine Lighton, Ellie Lighton, Irving Czechowicz and members of the Manchester Club for their hard work on the day.

Main Runner up Myke Wignall and Winner Mike Hanson	Consolation Winner John Wright and second Nick Hession
Last Chance Winner Angie Dell and second Simon Jones	Second in the 1 point Rachel Rhodes and Winner Paul Gilbertson

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Dorothy wins BIBA Consolation