2005 North Carolina Open Checker Tournament
Travelodge Inn - Greensboro,
NC - May 12, 13, & 14th, 2005
Les Balderson -
"Lifetime Achievement Award"
3-Move Restriction Style of
Play-Swiss System of scoring. 7 rounds at 4 games per round. This Ty
will crown a new NC Champion, so with a group of good players who are closely
matched we score the round as a mini-match between opponents and not scoring the
4 games; therefore, "winner-takes-all."
Tim Laverty - Scorekeeper
NCCA President, Cecil Lowe opened The 2005 NC State Open Checker Ty
by asking
Larry Michael - District 4 Mgr to give the invocation.
The 2005 NC Open Checker Ty gets under way with a short
business meeting, Cecil Lowe
thanks all the ty players for coming and
recognizes the out of state players.
Clint Pickard discusses several topics in the business meeting
prior to Opening of The 2005 NC Open Checker Ty
Larry discusses magazine and newspaper articles, Bob
Armstrong's Library, 2005 District 4
to be held in Hendersonville, NC and
NC Checkers website
mentioned.
Alan Millhone, ACF President presents Les Balderson
the
"Lifetime Achievement Award"
Plaque Reads:
American Checker Federation
and the
North Carolina Checker Association
present the
Lifetime Achievement Award
to
on this day, May 14, 2005
for his lifetime commitment and dedicated service
to the grand old game
Les telling us how appreciative and surprised he is...
Les talking about past and present checkers...
This was a happy moment for all who attended...
Thank you for serving 17 years as ACF President and 4 years prior to that as
ACF
Vice-President. A lifetime of continuous support, to District 4 and
particularly to ODCA
& NCCA - (Virginia & North Carolina Checkers).
Les and Clint practically kept the
GAYP Nationals going in the 1970s. This Team
promoted and preserved this style of
checkers. The 1976 US GAYP Nat in
Sanford, NC set the record for 114 breaking
the 1954 Lakeside, OH record of 94
players.
Tim using pairing cards to pull
door prize
winners, and then following it
by pairing-up players for their 1st
round of completive play.
JR and Majors' Group playing room
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Bill Burnett vs Wade Holder
Bill McClintock vs Mike Ross
Bill is our 2005 Class B N.C.
Checker Champion
JR Smith vs AY Saul in Majors' Group Playing room
Buck Smith vs Ben Jones
Paul Dingler vs Ken Shultz
Francesco LaRocca from Brooklyn, NYC
Buck Smith vs Mike Ross Teal Stanley vs
Jeff Webster & other in Majors' Playing room
Michael Holmes vs Tim Laverty
Buck vs Mike JR Smith front right corner
Bill McClintock vs Wade Holder
Elbert Lowder - Sanford, NC Our 2005 N.C. Checker Champion
Tim Laverty vs Michael Holmes
JR Smith vs AY Saul in Majors' Group Playing room
Gene Lindsay vs Tim Laverty
Master Players: Michael Holmes - Alex Moiseyev World 3-Move Champ - Alan Millhone
ACF President
Les vs Elbert - Michael vs Alex in Masters' Playing
Room
Francesco LaRocca from Brooklyn, NYC and Alan who is
taking him back to the Bus Station
Paul vs Ben
Bill vs Wade
Mike vs Buck
Ben vs Paul
Paul Dingler vs Ben Jones
Teal Stanley vs Jeff Webster
back AY Saul vs Ken Shultz
Les Balderson vs Elbert Lowder
JR Smith vs AY Saul in Majors' Group Playing room
Gene Lindsay vs Tim Laverty
James Lyles dropped by Saturday from reading Greensboro
News & Record.
Alan Millhone gave him a ACF bulletin and cap, he now plays
occasionally
at Burlington Checker Club and with the Greensboro chess/checker group.
Smoke break outside in back of Travelodge
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