2019 NC State Open Checker Tournament
The 129^th Annual North Carolina State Open with American Checker Federation
District IV Checker Tournament held on Friday, May 17^th & Saturday, May 18^th 2019

"MS Teal StanleyTournament Honoree" 
Comfort Inn Archdale, 10123 N. Main Street, Archdale, NC 27263 (336) 434-4797 ( map )

Results:

Congratulations Alex!  2019 1st Place Winner	Congratulations Ryan! 2019 District 4 Co-Champions	Congratulations Vadym!2019 District 4 Co-Champions	Congratulations Tetiana! 4th Place Winner	Congratulations Tim! 2019 NC Open Champion	Congratulations Teal! 6th Place Winner	Congratulations Jeff! 7th Place Winner	Congratulations Alan! 8th Place Winner

(Official Cross-table Results)
129^th Annual 2018 North Carolina Open Checker Tournament
May 17^th & 18^th, 2019 - Masters Division 3-Move / Seven 2 game - rounds of Round Robin of 1^1/4 hour per game - playing 4 rounds Friday, 3 rounds Saturday

2019 NC State Open Masters By Round, 2Gm

(Round Robin)

before

after

Source Sheet

Finish

Name

City, State

ACF#

Rate

Rate

Op

Rd1

Rd2

Rd3

Rd4

Rd5

Rd6

Rd7

Pts

HPts

Cash

Comments

1

GM Alex Moiseyev

Dublin, OH

10157

2303

4

5T3/3

3T3/6

8T3/9

6T3/12

1T2/14

2T3/17

7T4/21

21

$600.00

Alex wins 1st Place 2019 NC State Open Tournament (5th time)

2

EX Vadym Lapin

Boynton Beach, FL

12884

2035

1

8T2/2

7T4/6

6T2/8

5T1/9

4T2/11

3T4/15

2T2/17

17

88

$285.00

2-way tie for 2nd place. Split $350+$220=$570/2=$285 District 4 Co-Champions

2

MS Ryan Pronk

Chesapeake, VA

10125

2075

5

4T1/1

2T2/3

7T3/6

1T3/9

3T4/13

8T2/15

6T2/17

17

88

$285.00

2-way tie for 2nd place. Split $350+$220=$570/2=$285 District 4 Co-Champions

4

EX Tetiana Zaitseva

Boynton Beach, FL

12887

2015

8

1T2/2

6T2/4

4T1/5

2T3/8

7T3/11

5T2/13

3T2/15

15

$150.00

Tetiana wins 4th Place

5

MS Tim Laverty

Graham. NC

10153

2010

6

7T3/3

5T2/5

3T3/8

8T1/9

6T2/11

4T1/12

1T2/14

14

$120.00

Tim is our 2019 NC State Open Champion (12th time)

6

MS Teal Stanley

Greensboro, NC

10107

2014

3

3T3/3

8T2/5

1T2/7

4T1/8

2T2/10

7T1/11

5T2/13

13

$100.00

7

Jeff Webster

Stoneville, NC

10218

1683

7

2T1/1

1T0/1

5T1/2

3T2/4

8T1/5

6T3/8

4T0/8

8

$90.00

8

EX Alan Millhone

Belpre, OH

10142

1927

3

6T1/1

4T1/2

2T1/3

7T2/5

5T0/5

1T0/5

8T2/7

7

$80.00

$1,710.00

Total Master Cash Prize ≈ 68% of Total Prize Fund

Majors Results:

Congratulations Glenn! 2018 NC Class B Champion	Congratulations Matthew! 1st place tie Winner	Congratulations Quinton! 3rd place Winner	Congratulations JR! 4th place Winner	Congratulations Grover! 5th place Winner	Congratulations Buck! 6th place Winner	Congratulations Richard! 6th place Winner

(Official Cross-table Results)
129^th Annual 2019 North Carolina Open Checker Tournament
May 17^th & 18^th, 2019 - Class B Division 3-Move / Seven 2 game rounds of Round Robin of 1^1/4 hour per game - playing 4 rounds Friday, 3 rounds Saturday

2018 NC State Open Class B By Round, 2Gm

(Round-Robin)

before

after

Source Sheet

Finish

Name

City, State

ACF#

Rate

Rate

Op

Rd1

Rd2

Rd3

Rd4

Rd5

Rd6

Rd7

Pts

HPts

Cash

Comments

1

Glenn Fuquay

Elon, NC

12582

1717

4

2T4/4

11T1/5

9T3/8

8T2/10

6T4/14

1T4/18

11T4/22

22

$200.00

Glenn is our 2018 NC State Major Champion + Moiseyev - "Sixth"

2

Matthew Clark

Fort Mill, SC

10492

1761

11

6T3/3

4T3/6

8T4/10

1T3/13

7T4/17

9T3/20

4T0/20

20

$150.00

3

Quinton Pierce

Hertford, NC

10465

1768

8

7T4/4

3T4/8

11T0/8

4T2/10

9T2/12

6T3/15

7T2/17

17

$100.00

4

JR Smith

Greensboro, NC

10098

1576

10

ByeT3/3

9T2/5

1T2/7

7T1/8

5T2/10

3T2/12

9T4/16

16

$80.00

5

Grover Minor

Greensboro, NC

12659

1703

7

8T0/0

ByeT3/3

3T3/6

10T3/9

11T0/9

5T4/13

8T2/15

15

$60.00

6

Buck Smith

Millboro, VA

10091

1692

9

1T2/2

10T2/4

4T1/5

5T4/9

8T2/11

11T1/12

10T4/12

12

102

$42.00

3-way tie for 6th place on game points Split $50+$40+$35=$125/2=$42

7

Richard Marlowe

Dry Fork, VA

12888

1602

6

11T1/1

1T1/2

2T3/5

3T4/9

4T0/9

8T1/10

3T2/12

12

94

$42.00

8

Robert Cline

Yadkinville, NC

12773

1793

3

5T4/4

8T0/4

7T1/5

6T0/5

1T3/8

10T2/10

6T2/12

12

83

$42.00

9

George Alai

Boynton Beach, FL

12946

1543

1

9T2/2

6T3/5

10T2/7

11T1/8

2T1/9

4T0/9

5T2/11

11

$30.00

10

Konstantin Kotelnikov

Boca Raton, FL

unrated

5

3T0/0

2T2/2

ByeT3/5

9T0/5

10T2/7

7T0/7

1T2/9

9

$25.00

First ACF Sanctioned Checker Tournament

11

Roy Boyles

High Point, NC

unrated

2

4T0/0

5T2/2

6T1/3

ByeT3/6

wd

wd

wd

6

$20.00

withdrew after 4th Round - First ACF Sanctioned Checker Tournament

$791.00

Total Class B Cash Prize ≈ 32% of Total Prize Fund

• This year our 2019 State & District 4 Tournament was prominently elevated and dignified by the presents of our ACF President, Alan Millhone and 3 current World Champions: GM Alex Moiseyev - 11-Man World Champion, EX Vadym Lapin - World Pool Champion, and EX Tetiana Zaitseva - World Women's 3-Move Champion!  This only leaves GM Sergio Scarpetta - World Men's 3-Move Champion, GM Lubabalo Kondlo - World Men's GAYP Champion, Nadiya Chyzhevska - World Women's GAYP Champion, and EX Alex Holmes - World Youth GAYP Champion. 3-Move, GAYP, Postal, Pool, WQT Champions List

• Congratulations! to GM Alex Moiseyev from Dublin, OH for winning the 2019 NC State Open & District 4 Tournament. This is Alex's 5^th Time winning our North Carolina Open Tournament.

• Congratulations! to MS Ryan Pronk from Chesapeake, VA and EX Vadym Lapin for Boynton Beach, FL as 2^nd Place Tournament Winners and our District 4 Co-Champions, and appropriately recognized as the new 2019 ACF District 4 Champions.

• Congratulations! to MS Tim Laverty from Graham, NC as our 2019 North Carolina State Open Champion.  This is his 12^th time: 1981, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2010, 2015, and 2019.  

• Congratulations! to Glenn Fuquay from Elon, NC as our Majors 2019 North Carolina State Open Champion. Glenn received NCCA recognition, prize money, and a hardback copy of Alex Moiseyev's "Sixth" Vol 1 book. 

• Players were welcomed to Comfort Inn Archdale by a nice front desk counter display sign announcing: Welcome!! 129th NC State Open Checker Tournament "MS Teal Stanley Tournament Honoree"  Playing in Conference Room.

• Teal Stanley, NCCA President, opened our 129th Annual North Carolina State & ACF District 4 checker tournament by welcoming 19 players, from 4 States: 9 from NC; 4 from FL; 3 from VA; 2 from OH; 1 each from SC.  Teal ask Buck Smith to lead us in our tournament invocation before opening our annual North Carolina Checker Association (NCCA) business meeting and turning announcements and tournament details over to JR Smith, NCCA Secretary. The Business Meeting was called to order at 8:30am Friday, May 17th in the Comfort Inn - Archdale Hotel conference room.  Members in attendance:  5 NCCA Life-Time members were present: Glenn Fuquay, Jeff Webster, Teal Stanley, Tim Laverty, and JR Smith all from North Carolina.  We had 4 other NCCA members: Roy Boyles, Robert Cline, Grover Minor, and Quinton Pierce all from NC.  There were 10 other out of state players: Konstantin Kotelnikov-FL, George Alai-FL, Vadym Lapin-FL, Tetiana Zaitseva-FL, Alex Moiseyev-OH, Alan Millhone-OH, Matthew Clark-SC, Richard Marlowe-VA, Ryan Pronk-VA, and Buck Smith-VA, making a total of 19 tournament players present. 

• We especially appreciate and welcome Vadym Lapin & Tetiana Zaitseva and the Sunville Academy from Boca Raton, FL who drove into Archdale, NC for a 785 mile trip / 13 hours on the road, our most distant players. Also making long travels to the tournament were Alex Moiseyev from Dublin, OH, who drove 446 miles / 7.5 hours and Alan Millhone drove in from Belpre, OH for 344 miles / 6 hours. 

• Secretary Smith read last year's minutes which were preprinted and available to members. Smith reviewed the 2018 minutes which were approved as read & presented. 

• Announcements: JR Smith spoke about this year's tournament being in honor of MS Teal Stanley as our “Tournament Honoree” and on our display sign as “Honoring MS Teal Stanley for his life-time of dedication and pursuit of Checker Excellence.”  Teal was presented a nice “Tournament Honoree” plaque.

• Also announced were recently deceased checker players: Morris Auman, Frank Davis, Wayne Pierce, Harley Hochstetler, Harvey Kelley, George Cox, and Bill Burnett. Their obituaries were posted on the playing room wall.

• Other announcements and reporting were available and displayed on the playroom wall: Tournament Schedule, Playing Rules, & Contributors, NC State Champions, List of Restaurants, Financial Report - yearly history of the fund accounts, and NCCA's total accumulated prize fund withdrawn for anyone who wanted a copy.

• Smith also reported that our 2018 Federal Tax Return (990) was filed 1/28/2019, and our NCCA Trust Fund account as of 4/29/2019 statements: has a market value of $11,357.97 for our Edward Jones (EJ) account + RBC Wealth Management account has a market value of $12,853.92 for a total of $24,211.89 before this year's prize fund withdrawal ($2,179.58).  These amounts maybe verified by statements or on-line by any officer who has account ID and password.  As of 5/16/2019 total market value of both accounts was $22,172.80.

• Election of officers:  We voted to keep the current officers another year. Teal-president, Jeff-vice-president, JR-secretary, and Mike-treasurer.

• We discussed under topic New Business to play a Master division of seven rounds of round robin with 8 Master players and a B Class division of 11 players in 7 rounds of Swiss with only one repair if necessary.  We set the entry fee as $30 for Masters and $20 for B Class Majors, and any NCCA Life-Time member is exempt of a State Tournament entry fee; Motion made and carried by majority vote on the discussion/motion about tournament format. We kept our standard round time as 2.5 hours or (1.25 hours per game) and the number of rounds as 7; therefore, playing 4 rounds Friday and 3 rounds Saturday.  Play starts both days at 9:00 AM as posted in Tournament Schedule on the playing room wall.

• The top North Carolina player in the A Class will be recognized as the 2019 NC State Open Checker Champion and the highest finishing NC player in the B Class will be recognized as our 2019 NC State Open Majors Champion. Only a NC residence may be a NC Championship title holder. The 2019 District 4 Champion will be the highest finishing player from District 4.  Rules  

• ACF Titles that precede player's name stand for: GM stands for Grandmaster, CGM stands for Correspondence Grandmaster - historically, MS stands for Master, EX stands for Expert, which are earned titles given by The American Checker Federation to distinguish a player's knowledge and skill performance, improvement, recognition, and motivation purposes. For information on ACF Titles, please see Bylaw XII - ACF Titles.

• We love our new ACF Rating System and appreciate our programming software engineer & rating processor, Clint 0lsen from Kitchener, ON N2A0 OC1OC1 (Canada) who took on the job in 2017 of design, creation, and maintenance of this excellent & professional system. Our Tournament Ratings data was pulled from this Rating System.  Clint also serves as our ACF website administrator.

• When you are viewing the above 2019 score-sheet cross-tables the “ T ” separates player's opponent from player's earned game points for that round as: Draw is 1, Win is 2 points, Bye is 3, and Forfeit is 4.  A forward slash “ / ” separates earned game points from accumulated (total) game points.  (F) indicates a Forfeit, (Bye) designates a 3 point Bye round, (wd) designates a Withdrawal.

• Time clocks, game recorder sheets, and extra pens were available on the back table for those players who wanted them.  All players received a NCCA ballpoint pen as a door prize at tournament registration.

• All players were emailed a tournament flyer and or mailed a postcard invitation three weeks prior to the tournament, and of course all known checker players with an email address got a group email about the tournament with a link to the NCCA's checker calendar.

• Smith also announced, next year's 130^th Annual 2020 North Carolina Open Checker Tournament to be held on Friday and Saturday, May 15^th & 16^th 2020.  This is in keeping with the State Tournament dates as in the past, to be held the first weekend after Mother's Day which is the second Sunday in May.  We will announce more details later, but it won't be held at the Comfort Inn - Archdale but at a different tournament venue.

• Other Announcements: The next five checker tournaments will be Texas Open & District 8, Missouri State, New England & District 1, Southern Open, and of course you want to book your flight & room to our GAYP National in Las Vegas at least 90 day before August 19-22, 2019; and understand, there is a cut-off date of Aug 2^nd to make reservations.

• Adjournment:  Our meeting adjourned at 8:58 AM and a copy of the Financial Report, Annual Report, and Minutes are available to members on-line.  We started our 2019 NC State Open Tournament at 9:00 AM in the same conference room. 

• We appreciated the donations and contributions, which are added to the entry fees and with our fund account withdrawal, making a total $2,500.00 tournament prize fund pay out. Again this year, Joe McDaniel graciously supported us with $300.00.  We mailed Joe and Jeannie a “Thank You card” with all the players' signatures expressing our appreciation.

• We appreciate Alex Moiseyev donating a hardcopy of his “Sixth” book to the highest finishing B Class player, which was won by Glenn Fuquay.

• NCCA Life-Time Members are exempt of any State Tournament entry fees, one of the huge benefits of being a life-time member. 

• We appreciate Tim Laverty and Gayle Smith serving as our tournament directors.  Gayle did a fantastic job directing, refereeing, scorekeeping, keeping the tournament on time, and prize fund pay out!  Tim provided us with his “round-robin pairing scheme.”

• All players who wanted a list of the 2019 NC State Open and District 4 players' addresses & emails were available from the tournament director.

• Our oldest player was Buck Smith, age 88 with a birthday on March 16th, 1931 and 4 months older than Grover Minor.  Our youngest player was Konstantin Kotelnikov, age 16 with a March 7, 2003 birthday.

• We appreciate Gayle Smith who brought a large packed ice chest so we had plenty of water, fruit salad, salsa/cheese dip, chips, dips, veggie trays, dessert salads, cheese & crackers, etc. available throughout the tournament. 

• A delightful tournament & wonderful fellowship was had by all who attended.