A few simple rules ... limitless possibilities

Sunday 7th December 2003

Players in order of registration strength. Random within one grade. Games played as full handicap according to West Surrey rules (an X stone game has X<=9 on the star points, X+6 komi to Black (X=0 6 komi to White), if X>9 then 10 komi to black per extra stone, clock = 50+2X/50-2X minutes, Black wins jigo.

Players in order of registration strength. Random within one grade. Games played as full handicap according to West Surrey rules (an X stone game has X<=9 on the star points, X+6 komi to Black (X=0 6 komi to White), if X>9 then 10 komi to black per extra stone, clock = 50+2X/50-2X minutes, Black wins jigo.

The cup went to the strongest player on 4/4 who was Alan Thornton 2d (***) from Bill Streeten and Erwin Bonsma. Prizes for 4/4 (**) and 3/4 (*).

1   Tony Atkins         3d   Bracknell       10- 20- 7-  8+    1
2   Simon Goss          2d   Bracknell       12+ 6+  17- 9-    2
3   Alan Thornton       2d   St Albans       15+ 8+  10+ 18+   4 ***
4   Mike Charles        2d   St Albans       16+ 17- 15- 14+   2
5   Brian Brunswick     1d   Epsom           13+ 9+  18- 15+   3 *
6   Paul Margetts       1d   Epsom           14+ 2-  16- 12+   2
7   Brian Dackombe      1k   U/A             17- 19- 1+  20-   1
8   Edward Blockley     2k   Worcester       19+ 3-  13- 1-    1
9   Geoff Kaniuk        2k   CLGC            21+ 5-  12+ 2+    3 *
10  Jong Ug Kim         2k   Epsom           1+  23+ 3-  13-   2
11  Steve Bailey        3k   West Surrey     18- x   x   x     0
12  Fred Holroyd        4k   Milton Keynes   1-  27+ 9-  6-    1
13  Malcolm Hagan       4k   Winchester      5-  22+ 8+  10+   3 *
14  Ron Bell            4k   Reading         6-  24- 22+ 4-    1
15  Wayne Walters       4k   Wanstead        3-  25+ 4+  5-    2
16  Philippe Bourrez    4k   West Surrey     4-  21+ 6+  24-   2
17  Erwin Bonsma        4k   Ipswich         7+  4+  2+  31-   3 *
18  Bill Streeten       4k   Wanstead        11+ 26+ 5+  3-    3 *
19  David Hall          5k   West Surrey     8-  7+  23- 22-   1
20  Anna Griffiths      7k   Epsom           x   1+  24- 7+    2
21  Neil Cleverly       8k   Bournemouth     9-  16- 25+ 29+   2
22  Toby Anderson       8k   Bournemouth     26- 13- 14- 19+   1
23  Nicola Hurden       10k  Bracknell       27+ 10- 19+ 28-   2
24  Jonathon Englefield 11k  Bracknell       28- 14+ 20+ 16+   3 *
25  Andy Price          12k  Leamington      29- 15- 21- 33+   1
26  Paul Blockley       13k  Worcester       22+ 18- 30+ 32-   2
27  Pauline Bailey      13k  West Surrey     23- 12- 33- 30+   1
28  David Galeano       16k  West Surrey     24+ 32+ 31- 23+   3 *
29  Greg Bakker         16k  West Surrey     25+ 31- 32- 21-   1
30  Colin Maclennan     17k  Twickenham      32- 33+ 26- 27-   1
31  Kay Dackombe        23k  U/A             33+ 29+ 28+ 17+   4 **
32  Ken Dackombe        25k  U/A             30+ 28- 29+ 26+   3 *
33  Leo Holroyd         25k  Milton Keynes   31- 30- 27+ 25-   1

White wins                                   9   11  5   8     33
Black wins                                   7   5   11  8     31

13*13 winner

Ron Bell on 4/5.

Casual competitions

Go caption for photo of gun pointing at kitten with raised paws:

Fred Holroyd: "You can't shoot me, I've got two real eyes".

Sort 26 countries into order of size:

Malcolm Hagan: 16/26