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ROTTERDAM OPEN
17/19 OCTOBER 2008
------------------>>>> You can choose
to play Saturday or Sunday
or play both days <<<<----------------
Program
Friday
8 pm Quarter entry / warm up with free gifts
Saturday 12 am Start
Masters to play for the title
2 pm Start
Consolation Masters
10 pm Poker Texas Hold’em
details on the day
Sunday 12 am Superjackpot
16/32
1 pm
Beginner / Ladies/
Internet - players
6 pm Buffet
8 pm Price giving
Entry fees ( 100%
return ):
Masters € 250 (quarter
entry € 75 )
Superjackpot € 100 (
,, € 35 )
Beginner/ Ladies /Internet - players € 25
Both days jackpots ( 8 players ) on demand € 10/20/50
Registration for all tournaments € 25
Sunday registration: a cocktail, buffet and free backgammongift is included.
Quarter entry: 4 players to play knock out: 1 winner gets his/hers entry
ticket, included registration.
Venue: Café Spiegel, Westewagenstraat
62, Rotterdam
More info: Ed Baars +31653579164 or e-baars@versatel.nl
The
Rotterdam Open backgammon (10th) and
Pokertournament (1st)
a great success !
Photo's
click here !
Results
click here !
This
time the tournament was organised in café
Spiegel. The hosts really had
done everything in their power to make it a smooth tournament
and could even provide on the last day very suitable tables to play
backgammon.
Friday
evening around 8
o'clock the warm-up started. The 1st price, the well-known Snowie pro
disc edition 4 generously sponsored by the Snowiegroup did go to the winner of
the final played between regular visitor Guido Hehmann from Hannover and Nol
Heyerman. The last mentioned won. This former striker of footbalclub Sparta
Rotterdam plays backgammon
since God knows when, has never read a backgammonbook and despite of all
technical developments survives well. His nickname is "the Wall''.
Besides the warm-up, players
could also show their skills in quarter entrees and/or
minjackpots.
5 British players Myke Wignall, Paul Gilbertson, Paul Barwick
(winner Beach 2005), Andy Bell (producer dvd’s Rivieracup and Monte Carlo) and
Mike Heard, would arrive Friday afternoon, but around 22
hours they still didn't arrive. To check it out I went 2 times to their hotel
without any result. The 3rd time I woke up and went straight on to
the bar of hotel Atlanta and of course the gentlemen were there to celibrate
their save arrival or what ever. After taking them to the Spiegel, Fridaynight
wasn’t the same anymore and it was the beginning of a restless night in
Rotterdam.
Saturday
afternoon 24 players,5 British 1 German and 2 Belgian players, completed with
Dutch players, among them the latest worldchampion Philip Vischjager started the
Main. 8 unfortunate losers could and did re-buy
After the 3rd round 4 players remained to play half finals on Sunday.
The consolation was played untill the last 8.
Only 4 die hards for the intermediate, because some, on second thought, switched
to to the Main. These 4 played Round Robin and Susan won the trophee. Now it was
time to introduce Texas Hold’em. Under the guidance of Jeroen Romme and Paul
Bayens 18 players started on 2 professional pokertables.The 1st hour unlimited
re buys and the blind went up every 20 minutes. The last hour I was still in
playing 4 others The public went crazy. At that moment I was the chipleader and
had serious chances to get to the last 3 to pick up a price.
My inexperience (1st time I played) and the fact that I got an ace every hand
that wasn’t sufficient made my chips melt like snow. Exit, but an worthful
experience richer !
The remaining 4 did go on and the most experienced/professional man became
winner: Andy Bell.
Result:
1 Andy Bell, 2 Nico 3 Karl
Sunday
afternoon:
After a solid brunch the fights went on. Hassan
defeated Rogier van Gemert and Mike Heard concerred Arthur Braacx. The
final was a bit one sided, where Mike wasn’t in trouble in any moment.
At the Conso the fight between Myke Wignall and Hans Willem for 9 points also
started. Myke promised me that he would finish the job within 15 minutes. He was
right, however lost the game. After been redoubled he lost a gammon and the
Crawfordgame was finished off by Hans Willem in a blink of an eye.
Because
the winner had to catch his flight and all games were ended the prize giving was
started up. After
that I dropped Mike after a 5 minutes drive to the Central Station where he went
to Schiphol by train. Later on he
mailed me that the gate was already closed, but a nice Schipholemployee let him
go on the plain.
How much luck one can have in just one weekend !!
The
trophees were handed over to the winners by Brigitte ( thanks again for your
assistance) After the distribution
it was time for the buffet. Cook Anna made a fantastic variety of food such as,
soup, rice, saté, chickenwings and all kinds of meat, fish and fruit. Bottles
of champage were opened and gave this festival the finishing touch.
Around
9 o’clock players were ready to chouette or play the last
freeze out ( only 1 by in ) pokertournament. This time 9 players. Alex won and
Pierre was runner up. These
3 days were great fun for everbody and according to what I've heard everyone has
had - more or less successfully - a nice relaxed weekend.
Up
to next year, C.U Ed Baars
A
personal report of winner Mike Heard himselve on
this link
RESULTS
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Marcel
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Hans
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Marcel
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Paul
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Rogier
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Rogier
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Rogier
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Nol
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Nardy Pillard
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Nardy Pillard
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Nardy Pillard
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Myke Wignall
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Andy
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Andy
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Rogier
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Hassan
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Hassan
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Phillip
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Hassan
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Jeroen
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Guido
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Guido
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Hassan
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Myke Wignall
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Marcel (Amsterdam)
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Paul Gilbertson
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Paul Gilbertson
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Marcel (Amsterdam)
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Marcel (Amsterdam)
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Hassan
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Paul
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Gerard
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Paul Barwick
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Paul Barwick
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Mike Heard
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Mac
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Mac
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Mike Heard
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Paul Barwick
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Stan Kooiman
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Mike Heard
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Andy
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Stan Kooiman
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Mike Heard
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Mike Heard
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Pierre
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Mike
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Paul
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Arthur
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Pierre
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Paul
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Marcel (Amsterdam)
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Arthur
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Arthur
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Arthur
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Eric
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Hans Willem C.
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Rob
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Rob
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Nol
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Hans Willem C.
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Hans Willem C.
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Reports and
results 2004
Rotterdam
Beach Tournament 2004
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Masters ( 29 + 3 )
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Winner
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Rogier van Gemert |
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Runner
Up
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Sander Lyloff ( Denmark ) |
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1/2
finalists
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John Slattery ( Scotland ) |
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Misja Alma |
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Consolation
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Winner
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Tore Fredriksen ( Norway ) |
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Runner
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Paul Gilbertson ( England ) |
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1/2
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Paul van Dijke |
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Hassan Rida |
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Last Chance
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Winner
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Paul van Rooijen |
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Runner
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Phillip Visjager |
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Intermediate ( 16 )
| Winner |
Anthony
Fawcett ( England ) |
| Runner
Up |
Leon Weyl |
| 1/2
finalists |
Myke Wignall ( England ) |
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Rosey Bensley ( England ) |
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Consolation
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Ali |
| Runner
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Rob Willems |
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Last Chance
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| Winner |
Zoe
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Beginners ( 8 )
| Winner |
Duncan
Rousson |
| Runner
Up |
Brigitte Freijer |
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Consolation
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Diane
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Warm Up
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Guido Hehmann ( Germany ) |
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Seong Lee ( Denmark ) |
| 3/4 |
John Slattery ( Scotland ) /
Ernie Pick ( England ) |
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Super Jackpot
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Francois
Tardieu ( France ) |
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Kasper Nielsen ( Denmark ) |
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Double Consulting
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Marcel van Toor /
Paul van Rooijen |
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Francois Tardieu /
Arnoud Mattern ( France ) |
THE
ROTTERDAM BEACH BACKGAMMON TOURNAMENT
20 – 22 AUGUST 2004
Report by Rosey Bensley
What
a fun weekend this turned out to be!
I had to use all of my persuasive powers on Slatts to make him come to this new tournament as he was
already planning to go to the opening weekend of the MSO at Manchester.
Ed Baars had done a good job of promoting the tournament at Monte Carlo
and Myke Wignall, my brothers Paul and John and Ernie Pick were all saying
they were going. I didn’t
want to miss out on this one!
As it turned out there were 9 Brits playing in the tournament and we
took home 8 prizes between us! Read
on and see how we all got on – Tony Fawcett was the star performer and deserves a special mention, as this was his
first international tournament!
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Slatts,
John. Paul and I arrived on Friday afternoon to find Ernie at the
hotel waiting for us and dying for a game!
The Friday evening play was in the Maritime Café just around the corner from the Tulip Inn where we were
staying.
The action was centred on the quarter entries and the Warm Up
tournament. Ernie met Slatts in his quarter entry final having beaten the winner
of the August Gammonitis tournament, Rene van der Plujm. He played a good game but Slatts was triumphant. In
the warm-up Ernie and Slatts were looking forward to playing each other again in the final, as they had both reached
the semis in
separate halves of the draw!
Unfortunately, it was not to be as they both lost! However, they did each win a Special Backgammon Edition of Jameson’s Irish Whiskey.
I am sure they both considered this to be better than the first prize
of Snowie 4, which, as those of you that know the 2 players concerned, would have
been of no interest at all!!!
The
whiskey actually ended up costing me 20 Euros!
After breakfast on Saturday, Ernie was joking around with me, Paul and
John (Slatts being still in bed of course!) and was talking about the prize.
He said “ it’s really a great prize you know, the box opens up into a
backgammon board and the pieces are inside.”
We all laughed and told him to pull the other one.
Unfortunately for me, I had a bet on it and lost!!
The plan was to get John and Ernie to pose for a photo with the whiskey but in the end Ernie became
camera shy (he even hid when the photo of all the Brits was being
taken – I suspect the Inland Revenue are after him and he doesn’t want to be
recognised!!) |
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On
Saturday, we woke up to a very grey, murky, wet day and felt like we
were in England! The idea of a beach tourney had sounded a great idea at
the time. I decided not to put my bikini on (much to the relief of all
present!) and went across to the playing area, umbrella in hand.
Myke Wignall, Tony Fawcett and his wife (a non-player) had arrived to join the British contingent and
we met up with Zoë Cunningham and her friend Sean (Fox Reformed players) at the
beach. |
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Ed
Baars and Michel Buket had organised the tournament in a very friendly beach bar. Slatts, Paul and
Ernie joined the 32 players in the Masters and the rest of us decided to play in the 16 draw Intermediate tournament. Surprisingly, none of us were drawn against each other in the first round. There were also 8 beginners playing. |
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After
the first days play had ended the Brits were feeling good. Slatts had qualified for the Masters Main semi-final and Paul was in the Masters
Consolation quarterfinal. However, this was a bit of a disappointment as he had thought his win
in his last match put him in the semi, but it was a progressive consolation, resulting
in him effectively playing 2 quarterfinal rounds!!
Myke, Tony and myself were all in the Intermediate Main semi-finals, which meant at least one of us, was going to go
through to the final. |
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The
atmosphere in the playing area was very good although it was quite
noisy. In the evening the bar was full of non-bg players enjoying an
evening out. There was a Doubles Consulting tournament and Jackpots going on
throughout the evening. |
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Ed
Baars told us that the sun was going to shine on Sunday and I am
pleased to report that it did! It
made a nice change to be out in the open air playing. |
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I
sat down to play Tony and got off to a good start.
The dice gods seemed to be on my side and had definitely deserted Tony.
He asked for a break at 11 – 5 down to 15. When we resumed I hoped that my luck was going to continue and sure
enough took the next 2 points to make the score 13 – 5.
Tony won the next game and with the score at 13 – 6 we had this position:- |
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decided that I should play 24 – 16.
Not Snowie’s favourite but definitely the play of most of the players whose opinion I asked for after the match had
finished. Tony said “I’m going to roll 4 / 3 so I had better cube you!” He actually thought that if he didn’t hit he would get gammoned and lose 2 points and the
match anyway. I took the cube and sure enough the dice gods turned and gave him the
4 / 3! I did manage to save a gammon but that game proved to be the
turning point in the Match. Tony played very
aggressively and I couldn’t do a thing!
He didn’t let me win another point and won the match 13 – 15.
Needless to say I wasn’t very happy and told Slatts he had to give me a few lessons on how to win from 2-away.
I always seem to struggle to win when at that score! Still, as he pointed out, I had still won a trophy and some money so should be pleased with myself. |
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Myke
in the meantime had come second to Leon Weyl so Tony faced a Dutchman in the final. I kept an eye on the match and felt sorry for Tony when he once again found himself trailing 15 –6 to 17, losing 7 games in a row.
His opponent asked for a break at this point and I just reminded Tony about his 4/3 joker at 13
– 6 down against me and told him to come out fighting. This is just what he did! Leon made the mistake of cubing when 2 away. Tony
took and gave the cube back on 4.
He rolled well and won the game putting him back in contention at 15 – 10. Tony cubed early on each of the next 3 games, all of which he won!
Score now 15 – 16 to Tony.
By now the Brits watching were spurring him onto victory and he
didn’t let us down.
A
big congrats to Tony winning his first International Intermediate
tournament at the first attempt. |
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the Masters, Slatts sat down to play his semi-final against Rogier van
Gemert, currently considered to be the best Dutch player.
They were quite evenly matched.
The last time they played was in the Team event in Monte Carlo.
In that game, Slatts was 1 – 4 down in a 5 pointer and he needed to beat Rogier to keep his team in the
tourney. He was
triumphant and so Rogier told him he was out for revenge in Rotterdam!
With the score at 11 – 15 to 17 Slatts had to play a 5 / 1 in this position:-
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Slatts considered his move for
some considerable time and opted for 23/18 6/5. He had
decided that his play gave him more flexibility and Rogier still had 4
points to clear with no spares.
Slatts strengthened his board and Rogier left him a shot. At this point Slatts cubed to 2. Rogier admitted that he didn’t like seeing the cube, but
after giving the position due consideration he took it.
Slatts missed the shot and Rogier went on to win the match.
Francois Tardieu was watching the game and told Slatts that he
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Rogier went on to meet an up
and coming young Dane in the final, Sander Lillof. Rogier was considered to be the favourite and had a lot of
local support of course. He
went 7 – 4 down but then won 8 points in one game to take the lead 7
– 12 to 19. Then
Sander fought back and went ahead 15 – 12.
They got to this position and Sander was looking at whether or
not to cube for match.
The
general consensus in the crowd was that it was a
No Redouble / Take
position.
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This a redouble for money but
not at this match score.
Sanders inexperience showed here. Rogier took the 4 cube and redoubled to 8.
He got the better dice and won the game and the match.
Meanwhile, Paul was playing
his consolation final. He
didn’t appear to be having much luck (no change there then!) and
found himself in this position at 7 – 4 down to 15. |
Paul felt that if he could hit
he had a good chance of picking up 4 points. He was, of course, well aware that if the dice gods decided it
wasn’t his day that he would be massive underdog in the match.
As his bad luck would have it the dice went as follows:-
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Paul rolls 4/2 He moved 9 – 5* / 8 – 6 Snowie favoured 9 –5* / 5 –3 but only by a very small
margin.
Tore rolls the joker 6/5!
Hits and closes his board and gammons Paul for match. |
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Myke decided to get some more
playing action and went into a 50 Euro Jackpot. He played in his usual flamboyant fashion and when Tony, Paul
and I were watching he had got himself into this position in the
Crawford game!
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Yes, he did manage to win the
game. Not only that he
went onto win the match!!!
Unfortunately for him he didn’t win his next round so didn’t
cash.
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Included in the registration
fee was a free meal on Sunday night.
This could be eaten at any time between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m across
the beach. It was chicken
sate, chips and salad and was very tasty.
Michel and Ed ended up giving out the prizes at about 9 p.m.
and there was free champagne for everyone.
Brigitte from Antwerp gave out the prizes and a special thanks
goes to her for assisting Ed in running the tournament.
The general consensus was that it was an excellent tournament
and well worth a visit next year. |
ROTTERDAM
BEACH TOURNAMENT 2004
report by
Rogier van Gemert
The
1st round draw on Saturday had me paired against Peter Gelpke. After a bad start (10-5 till 15 behind) the luck was turning and gave me 3
single points and one doubled gammon.
2 games later I won the Crawford game for the
match. I had 2 very interesting positions to play and my plays here didn't
really
turn out as the top choice so to speak. Luckily backgammon is all
about
rolling fantastic dice in those moments one has to think.
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arrived already the Friday night to play the warm up and try a quarter entry. The quarter entry went rather horrible for me: one could say a bit |
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The
2nd round was a match against Erik Sorensen from Denmark
and just like in the 3rd round against Guido Hehmann from Germany I was very lucky
indeed. I easily went
through these rounds with 15-10 and 15-7 respectively. I
now survived the 1st day and I was allowed to take on John Slattery from
Scotland in the semi-final.
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Sunday:
the weather is great today so playing outside seems almost
obligatory. The 17 point semi final against the 2003 European champion
went
up to 8-9 to Slatts were the luck still was evenly divided. With some
amazingly
perfect joker rolling from both sides. But now somehow my dice (at
least the ones I borrowed from Slatts, it was his board) got into an even
higher
gear. I won a doubled gammon, a doubled race ending in 6/6 and 4/4! And a game Slatts just had
got to give away even on this score gave me an overwhelming
15-9 lead.
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The
next game gave me a relatively easy take for the match. I had some race
and I only needed an eight for an immediate win. This didn't work out this
time
and Slatts brought this game home in marvellous fashion (15-11).
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The
next game had Slatts playing a bar point holding game with another loose
checker in my weak home board. I still had 4 points to clear . So it
was a
pretty even game.
Slatts got an extremely difficult 5/1 to play and thought
about this one for about 15 minutes. I was very happy that it wasn't my
position.
In the mean time I got some drinks for the pair of us, it was my turn
anyway. Yes, yes it was a very cozy semi final.
Anyway Slatts decided
to step up, which turned out to be top choice.
1 roll later I decided to clear
the farthest point leaving a voluntary deuce shot. This was a small mistake according to the computer. Anyway Slatts doubled on this shot.
And I
again had to eat this cube for the match.
Slatts missed! I
cleared up the rest
without leaving any shots. Winning the race turned out to be very
easy.
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final turned out to be a real thriller against Sander Lyloff from Denmark. My
again very sporting opponent and me pushed each other to the limits of
this
mind battle with sizzling joker and anti-joker rolling to make it also
fun for the spectators. I had the somewhat better dice on decisive
moments.
Example: 4-7
till 19 behind gave me a redouble to 8 in a 65% race, which I easy
rolled home. 12-7 ahead and over the moon.
Every game until 12-15 was for my opponent when we reached the
unexpected climax. I had doubled pretty soon on some vague gammon
threats, and jokers alternated each other in ridiculous fashion. I seemed to
get the last one when I closed my homeboard with a man on the rail and
about 60% gammon-win guarantee. I bore off 4 men and obviously had to
leave a shot.
Got hit and closed out, hmm. I now am about 18% in this game. And Sander
decided to redouble to 4. The bot would have waited but also stated that
doubling wasn't a mistake in
the rollout. There is always the chance the opponent passes in disgust. After
all the position is a moneygame pass. After a lot of teeth grinding I
took and redoubled to 8 (again!) for the match . From then on
the last game tended to get my way again.
Sander immediately had to clear his 5 point , where I immediately
entered with 6/5!
He even missed with another 5, which costed him a roll in the bear-off . We
now have a 5 roll position were I have 4 men on the three and ace points and
2 men on my two point. And I
have
the roll so no doublet from Sander and no weird things like 5 aces in a
row for me wins the final. This is what happened next:
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roll: 3/1 (2 off) versus: no double
I roll 6/1 (2 off) versus: no double
I roll 5/1 (2 off) versus: no double
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left me with
2 men on the deuce point! Any next single ace would lose if
I ever get the chance to roll for it anyway.
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Sander
shook for the last time. Rolls...................... 3/2!!!!!
It is in my hands now. I shook shortly
as I wanted to get it over with and rolled fast. One die was
spinning for about 3 seconds (this felt like eternity). The die already
flat in the board showed an ACE!
OH NO 5 aces in a row!!!
The last die finally stopped spinning and showed another ACE!!!!!!!!!! What a
rush!!!!!
I have never been in the habit of complaining about
bad luck that is not sportsmanlike to me. But certainly now you will not hear
me complaining for the coming year anyway.
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Sander
congratulated me with this fantastic victory, which kept the Beach Trophy
in the Netherlands, and we had a few beers afterwards. I can only hope
if I ever reach a final again and are supposed to lose the way he did
that I will react as sportily as this Danish opponent did.
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Rotterdam
Open 2004
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| Main
(24) |
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| Winner |
Hans Liby ( Noorwegen )
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| Runner
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Paul
Bayens ( België ) |
| 1/2
finalists |
Nis
( Denemarken )
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Tore
( Noorwegen )
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Consolation
(20) |
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| Winner |
Rogier
van Gemert |
| Runner
Up |
Shinichio
Kaneko ( Japan )
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| 1/2
finalists |
Paul van Dijke |
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Bert
van Kerckhove ( België ) |
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Last
Chance |
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| Winner |
Paul van Rooijen |
ROTTERDAM
OPEN 2004
On 4, 5 and 6
june the Rotterdam Open was played in the Tulip Inn Hotel.
Fridaynight the quarter entrees and the warm up with 16 players.
Almost all contenders played the quarter entrees. Bert played
against Geert, Bert won in only 1 game because of a 8-cube. In a
close game against Shin from Tokyo he got his entree into the
main tournament. |
Paulus van Dijck
beat Hans Liby and Rene van der Pluym and also got his entree
into the main for free. Shahab Ghodsi from Iran who lives in Norway
took 2 chances and succeeded to enter into
the main. |
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Rogier ( Runner
Up Intermediate Monaco 2003 ) played Rolf Schreuder, who was a long
time one of the best players in Holland and was in the
"Backgammon Giants top 30", but the dice of Rogier
rolled on command and so he won 13-0 !!
The second round Rogier played "an old fashion double
matchpoint thriller" with Paul van Dijck. After several jokers
Rogier throwed the last one in a spectacular match wher both player
blundered a lot ;
a "no redouble/take" was doubled by Paul and was
passed by Rogier. Undoubted a lot went wrong in this
match but the tension was enorm. Rogier won.
Sunday
The finals were played today. And the last chance. It's a pity
that not everyone felt the obligation to play the last chance. The
finale of the consolation ( 13 points ) played Rogier vs Shin. A
good match full of swinging of chances. Crawford on 12-11 for
Rogier. Now Rogier had some luck to win this game, which he could
have lost gammon and so the match. Anyway 13-1 |
In the big final
Paul Bayens didn't have his luck and Hans won relatively easy.
The last chance was won by Paulus to beat Rene , Ed and Mac.
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THE
INTERMEDIATE/BEGINNERS- tournament was played wih 6 players. Ed decided
to let each player play to the other 5 contenders ( 9 points ).
Geert won all his games against Suzanne, Jeroen, Freek, Yehuda and Brigitte,
so next time no beginners-tournament for him. All players who didn't won a
price could pick a present from the sponsor
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| It was a
very cosy and good weekend and everybodey had a fine time. I hope you noticed
that the players who come to Rotterdam are playing very well. We hope to
see them and a lot af more players next time.
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| Thanks to
Brigitte Lieferinck for the notations and Paul for the boards.
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| Ed Baars
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| If you
want the Snowie file of the final please mail to ed.baars@zonnet.nl |
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