Tournaments 2007(Swiss format ranking tournament 1 of 4) Jarvis Trophy February 3rd & 4th, 2007 |
The Winners |
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2007 2006 2005 2004 |
GiorgioCastellano Martin Hemming Uldis Lapikens Stuart Mann |
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2004 marked the start of the new Swiss format incorporating the Consolation element. The Jarvis was the first of such formats and generally it seems to have been a success. For a fuller description of the new format, click here. In the Consolation list the number of Consolation wins is shown, and the Grand Prix points are based upon the total number of wins thoughout the competition. |
Main (19-38) |
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Pos |
Players Name |
wins |
GP Pts |
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01 15 16 17 18 19 |
Giorgio Castellano Ian Davidson |
6 5 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 |
24.77 13.42 13.42 9.29 9.29 9.29 9.29 9.29 9.29 9.29 6.19 6.19 6.19 6.19 6.19 6.19 6.19 4.13 4.13 |
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Consolation (19-38) |
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Pos |
Players Name |
wins |
wins /GP Pts |
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01 15 16 17 18 19 |
Julian Fetterlein Simon Morecroft Stephen Drake Paul Watts Jeff Ellis Matthew Fisher Paul Christmas Rodney Lighton Rosey Bensley Jeff Barber Uldis Lapikens Peter Bennet Dave Motley Ron Havenhand George Hall Caroline Stafford Kamal Verma Jonathan Powell Paul Barwick |
3 3 3 2 2 2 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 |
4 4 4 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 |
9.29 9.29 9.29 6.19 6.19 6.19 6.19 4.13 4.13 4.13 4.13 4.13 4.13 2.58 2.58 2.58 2.58 |
Friday 500 (12) |
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Rosey Bensley |
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Doubles (8) |
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A Cake of Cheese |
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Poker (9) |
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1 2 3 |
Paul Watts |
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Jarvis Trophy. February 3/4 2007 On the Friday evening we played the second Friday 500 (12). Rosey Bensley showed Slats a thing or two when she made it into the final. Slats had been beaten by David Nathan in the quarter-finals, and it was he that faced Rosey having despatched Ed Turner in the semis. Rosey continued her winning streak and came out with maximum points and she now lies in joint 1st position with Mardi Ohannessian. On the subject of the 500, it has been decided that the player topping the list after the Townharbour in November will win £100, to be handed over during the UK Finals - a good reason to keep trying to top the list. Main & Consolation It was a long match, thirteen games and it went to post-Crawford, 10-8 before concluding. There was one game that caught my eye - it had three cube decisions and one 'mistake' from Giorgio that he recovered from ... but only just. Here's the first of three cube decisions. Giorgio is playing as black:
Match to 11 points With just two pips between them this is a double, take:
From here, Peter fails to re-enter and then Giorgio finds himself in this position:
Black to play 63 I was watching this particular game and I thought the best move was to maximise builders for the 2-point by playing 13/4; however, black instead moved 18/15 13/7 (-0.023). Subsequent rollouts on Snowie put this play in 3rd position, with 18/9 2nd and 13/4 1st. Peter danced and then Giorgio rolled 62 - which would have been a perfect roll to make his 2-point! A few rolls later Peter rolls a great double-two:
White rolls 22 Peter hits and makes his 4-point. Giorgio re-enters but cannot escape and in this position, Peter re-cubes to 4:
White cube action This is a big blunder. He's 57 pips behind in the race and black only has one checker to really worry about. Snowie screams, No re-double, take.
Of course, Giorgio snatches it up. Over the next sequence of moves black is unable to get the runner out to safety until he reaches this position:
Black cube action He is 60 pips ahead in the race and currently has approx. 21% gammon chances. Peter drops.
In the Consolation we had three players on 3/3, Stephen Drake, Simon Morecroft and Julian Fetterlein. The tie-break was very cruel to Stephen, he dropped to 3rd, Julian came 1st and Simon took 2nd.
On the Saturday evening we had a great Doubles (8) knockout. On a Peter Kaye theme, Garlic? Bread? was eaten up by A Cake of Cheese in the 1st Round, as the Cake progressed to the Final after ridding themselves of the troublesome Italian Job; and Christmas Pudding spat out A Taste of Siemens (aural pun!) and then beat The Two Boys to face A Cake of Cheese. A Christmas pudding is no match for a cake of cheese as anyone will tell you and so it was the Cake that went happily to bed with a nice wedge. In the Poker (9), it was (once again) a Gilbertson night. Paul Watts - who isn't a Gilbertson - came out on top, but that left a brace of Gilbertsons in 2nd and 3rd place; Matthew and John. Will their grip on the poker Grand Prix ever slacken? I think not!
Finally
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