Added By
A. Moiseyev (omela@juno.com) On Wed 10/19/05
0328BST:On my part I would like to say many, many thanks to Igor Keder and all other organizers. I know - it's not an easy thing - to run such level event on high quality ! Great job, guys.
Subject: 2005 GAYP Qualification Tournament & GAYP World Champion Checker Tournament - Prague
Posted By Ingo Zachos
(nimzo@gmx.de) On Wed 10/19/05 0328BST:
Women1. Amangul Durdyeva 16, 2. Jan Mortimer 10, 3. Kim Willis 7, 4. Alena Sorokina
6, 5. Matrie Riedelbauchova 1, Kim won a piece in the opening and with precise
technique gained third place in the last round, after Alena drew her with white
in fine style.
Amangul kept her clear score defeating Riedelbauchova 4-0 , but the Czech ladies
will definitely be contenders for high places in the qualifiers if their
knowledge and practice in the English style increases.
2005 Czech Union of Draughts - WCDF World GAYP Qualifiers
& Championship - Prague
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| Rank | Name | Points | HP | Additional Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amangul Durdyeva | 16 | -- | TNDF - new Ladies GAYP World Champion |
| 2 | Jan Mortimer | 10 | -- | NZDF |
| 3 | Kim Willis | 7 | -- | ACF |
| 4 | Alena Sorokina | 6 | -- | CUD |
| 5 | Marie Riedlbauchova | 1 | -- | CUD |
| Cross Table - Final Score (after 4th round) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| games | ||||||
| no. | name - country | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 1 | Mortimer, Jan - New Zealand | × | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 |
| 2 | Durdyeva, Amangul - Turkmenistan | 4 | × | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| 3 | Riedlbauchova, Marie - Czech Republic | 0 | 0 | × | 1 | 0 |
| 4 | Sorokina, Alena - Czech Republic | 2 | 0 | 3 | × | 1 |
| 5 | Willis, Kim - United States | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | × |
Youth |
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| Rank | Name | Points | HP | Additional Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lukus Valenta | 16 | -- | CUD - new World GAYP Youth Champion |
| 2 | Bashim Durdyev | 15 | -- | TNDF |
| 3 | Shane McCusker | 11 | -- | IRE |
| 4 | Filip Kareta | 10 | -- | CUD |
| 5 | Marek Jurkovic | 5 | -- | CUD |
| 6 | Jiri Jurkovic | 2 | -- | CUD |
As expected Lukacsz secured first place.
Bashim won both against the uncompromising Filip and took second place.
Shane, who had to depart early, drew both with Jiri, giving him the first points
and hereby getting a bronze medal for Ireland.
All young players are good talents, and especially Lukacz might be already the
man to beat if he begins to play regularly in British events.
The Men played a 10 round Swiss style
tournament while the Ladies and Youth played a Round Robin.
Men |
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| Rank | Name | Points | HP | Additional Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jim Morrison | 26 | -- | ACF |
| 2 | Bagtyar Durdyev | 24 | -- | TNDF (Highest honor points of them all!) |
| 3 | Mustafa Durdyev | 24 | -- | WCDF |
| 4 | Richard Beckwith | 23 | -- | ACF |
| 5 | Michael Holmes | 20 | -- | ACF |
| 6 | Rawle Allicock | 19 | -- | EDA (Best European player) |
| 7 | Ingo Zachos | 18 | -- | NZCF |
| 8 | David Harwood | 17 | -- | EDA (Better honor points) |
| 9 | Thomas Canning | 17 | -- | ICF |
| 10 | Dennis Pawlek | 16 | -- | GDA |
| 11 | Tomas Novotny | 14 | -- | CUD (Best Czech player!) |
| 12 | Igor Keder | 13 | -- | CUD (Handicapped as arbiter, shuttle service and organizer!) |
| 13 | Jaroslav Tichy | 12 | -- | CUD |
| 14 | Sune Thrane | 9 | -- | DDF (Sorry Sune, but you will definitely be better next time!) |
| Table - games results | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| player | round (player no.:points) | ||||||||||
| no. | name | federation | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| 1 | Allicock, Rawle | EDA | 8:3 | 7:2 | 2:1 | 14:2 | 13:4 | 5:2 | 4:0 | 9:1 | 11:4 |
| 2 | Beckwith, Richard | ACF | 9:2 | 11:3 | 1:3 | 5:2 | 7:2 | 4:2 | 6:4 | 13:3 | 3:2 |
| 3 | Canning, Thomas | ICF | 10:2 | 4:2 | 6:1 | 11:0 | 12:3 | 13:3 | 14:2 | 8:2 | 2:2 |
| 4 | Durdyev, Bagtyar | TNDF | 11:3 | 3:2 | 9:2 | 7:2 | 14:4 | 2:2 | 1:4 | 5:2 | 10:3 |
| 5 | Durdyev, Mustafa | WCDF | 12:4 | 6:3 | 7:2 | 2:2 | 9:1 | 1:2 | 8:4 | 4:2 | 13:4 |
| 6 | Harwood, Dave | EDA | 13:4 | 5:1 | 3:3 | 9:2 | 11:1 | 10:2 | 2:0 | 12:2 | 8:2 |
| 7 | Holmes, Michael | ICHF | 14:4 | 1:2 | 5:2 | 4:2 | 2:2 | 8:2 | 9:0 | 11:3 | 12:3 |
| 8 | Keder, Igor | CUD | 1:1 | 12:2 | 14:1 | 13:1 | 10:2 | 7:2 | 5:0 | 3:2 | 6:2 |
| 9 | Morrison, Jim | ACF | 2:2 | 10:4 | 4:2 | 6:2 | 5:3 | 11:4 | 7:4 | 1:3 | 14:2 |
| 10 | Novotny, Tomas | CUD | 3:2 | 9:0 | 11:0 | 12:2 | 8:2 | 6:2 | 13:4 | 14:1 | 4:1 |
| 11 | Pawlek, Dennis | GDA | 4:1 | 2:1 | 10:4 | 3:4 | 6:3 | 9:0 | 12:2 | 7:1 | 1:0 |
| 12 | Tichy, Jaroslav | CUD | 5:0 | 8:2 | 13:0 | 10:2 | 3:1 | 14:2 | 11:2 | 6:2 | 7:1 |
| 13 | Thrane, Sune | DDF | 6:0 | 14:0 | 12:4 | 8:3 | 1:0 | 3:1 | 10:0 | 2:1 | 5:0 |
| 14 | Zachos, Ingo | NZCF | 7:0 | 13:4 | 8:3 | 1:2 | 4:0 | 12:2 | 3:2 | 10:3 | 9:2 |
After Jim crushed the tired Michael 4-0 and defeated Allicock 3-1 he almost
secured first place on Thursday, because his closest Rival Baghtiyar Durdev, who
defeated Rawle 4-0 and won in fine style against his elder brother Mustafa in
their first game, lost their second game on a terrible blunder. But this young
ambitious, talented and well/prepared player will definitely be a winner in the
future qualifiers!
Jim secured first place by drawing me twice in cross-games , and Rich Bechwith
showed great sportsmanship by refusing to win on forfeit against Tommy Canning
who had to depart to Ireland on Friday morning, and thus losing second place,
for Tommy drew him in fine style in both games late in the night at the hotel.
Rawle crushed Dennis 4-0 and finished best European player, destroying our
German hopes of breaking the British dominance right now.
All players will definitely bear this extraordinary tournament in their memory. and I hope that the CUD will stage future WCDF Qualifiers to give the central European and Asian players a chance to challenge the Anglo-American dominance in the game of draughts/Checkers
Added By
A. Moiseyev (omela@juno.com) On Wed 10/19/05
0328BST:
On my part I would like to say many, many thanks to Igor Keder and all other
organizers. I know - it's not an easy thing - to run such level event on high
quality ! Great job, guys.
It is an unfortunate fact, that Igor had to play two roles - organizer and tournament participant. This definitely had influence on his play, no questions.
It is amazing to see both Durdyev family members secured 2nd and 3rd place, which beat all expectations !
As I said - I wish Kim good luck in his 3rd attempt for the World Title. I am sure - we'll have an interesting match next year.
Added By A. Moiseyev (omela@juno.com)
On Wed 10/19/05 0328BST:
"Rich Bechwith showed great sportsmanship" I know Richard long time and can prove
- for him it's a normal way to handle things. I would be much more surprise, If
he act differently.
Added By
Dennis Pawlek (dennispawlek@lycosxxl.de) On Wed 10/19/05 0328BST:
I just arrived back home and I guess I can speak for everybody that we all
enjoyed to meet each other. Everybody is a character. I had a hard time in
Prague between sight seeing with some of the players and the very hard pairings
I had in this tournament. (Facing 5 of the top 6 players)
Facing such top players is a great deal as I now know what to work on and can
correct errors as some of the games were on a good level. As usual a Swiss
system with such a low number of participants is always unfair for some players
but if you can learn of your games and play such high caliber players your the
real winner. Jim did tell us that he will give his best to beat Ron. He did show
a very solid performance in this tournament which is in my opinion very
important against Suki. Many thanks to Igor who did organize this event very
good. Some of the people didn't like the system and did question it as Europe and
the USA play different systems in there National Events. There is a lot of work
coming up for the new WCDF President and his team to define rules more exactly
and to create standards for important WCDF events.