Tournament Results
Sunday, 20 July 1997
San Mateo, California
On a beautiful Sunday afternoon in July, a record-breaking 60 backgammon players attended the BACKGAMMON BY THE BAY tournament. Although a little too late in the month to set off fireworks, these people had reason to celebrate:
Beginner's section (11 players):
Welcome to the intermediates, Mark.
Main Winner - Richard Gibson
2nd - Mark Hein*
Consolation Winner/ Bill Caplan*
2nd Tom Langland
(Split)
Intermediate section (19 players):
Main Winner - Marc Lowe*
2nd - Ron Dumont*
3rd / Mark Emershaw*
4th Brian Farr*
Consolation Winner/ Dan Doherty
2nd Michael Hirohama*
(Split)
Open section (30 players):
Main Winner - Ron Karr*
2nd - Daniel Murphy*
3rd / John Graas*
4th Richard McIntosh*
Consolation Winner - Kit Woolsey*
2nd - Roger Gabrielson*
* denotes BGBB members
Congratulations to you all!
Our long distance award goes to David Montgomery. He came from Maryland and it was delightful to meet him and welcome him to the bay area.
BACKGAMMON BY THE BAY members continue to do well in tournaments throughout the United States. Elliott Winslow won the Mini Match at the Chicago tourney as well as placing 2nd in the NY State Championship event in NY last month. Art Grater was 2nd in the consolation of the Advanced event in Georgia and Ray Fogerlund was 1st in the consolation of the open event in Michigan. Congratulations!
A few months ago, the chess world was all atwitter with a man vs. machine match where IBM was the dubious winner. In the backgammon world, Jellyfishionado Malcolm Davis threw down the gauntlet. Challenging claims that JellyFish's skill level had surpassed the top humans, Nick Ballard and Mike Senkiewicz picked it up. They all flew to Dallas for the backgammon man vs. machine match. I believe the general consensus of opinion amongst the oddmakers was that JellyFish would be a small to moderate winner over both players. Some of the conditions of contest were that dice would be rolled on the board (instead of by the computer), and the games would be played on a board instead of Nick and Mike playing on a computer. The latest version of JellyFish was used (3.0 level 7, speed setting 50), which was not even out on the market. Nick and Mike, in separate sessions, played 300 games each against JellyFish with surprising results. Nick was the overwhelming winner (that isn't the surprising part to anyone who knows Nick) but Mike lost the exact amount that Nick won, so JellyFish was exactly even.
Claudia Imatt continues to bring yummy food to BGBB backgammon tournaments. Thanks, Claudia, for saving all these BG players from certain starvation.
Although time is getting short, we still hope to field a team for the
California Club Challenge Cup to be held at Pat Gibson's tourney in LA.
We need six players from BGBB to play in a team match against LA and San
Diego. If you know you are going, and would like to play, please call
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JellyFish 3 is the newest version to hit the market. Game 10 from our
June tournament, which is a game from the finals of the open event between
Julius High and Steve Clark, annotated by Ron Karr, was rolled out using
this version of JellyFish. We believe it is the first publication of
rollouts using version 3. Check out our Web site and see the insightful
annotations by guest commentators such as Kit Woolsey, Ron Karr, Nick Ballard,
Steve Clark, and other well-known backgammon personalities. Thanks again to
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On a newsy note:
Congratulations to Odis Chenault and Yolanda Bradshaw on the birth of
their son. He is a cutie, and I assume he will be the youngest BGBB member
in another few years.
The San Francisco Bay Area backgammon group says a fond farewell to Daniel
Murphy and wishes him lots of happiness with Anne in Denmark. Daniel leaves
shortly to live in Denmark with Anne Dahlin (they met on FIBS!). We hope
that when (not if!) they come to SF to visit, they will plan their trip
so they can come to the BGBB tourneys.
Upcoming tournament flyers,
sample Chicago Point and Flint BackgammoNews newsletters,
new and old backgammon publications,
they're all available at the next tourney, which is ...
Keep on rollin' well,
J
Copyright © 1996-2008
BackGammon By the Bay
Sunday, August 17th
12:00 noon
Doors open at 11:00 am
1730 South Amphlett, Suite 116
San Mateo, CA
Please bring a board.
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