Newsletter for 27 July 2004

The Dog Days Are On The Way

On Tuesday, 27 July 2004, the Backgammon Club of San Diego met. This will be the last time for July, we promise.

Tournament News

9 people entered a 16-player bracket on Tuesday night. We had the following tournament results:

Main Tournament (16 player bracket)

1st place:  Sho Sengoku
2nd place:  Osman Guner
3rd place:  Bruce Discher / Tom Fahland (split)

Sho's victory this week is his 8th this year, in 30 tournaments. Jason Lee has four, while Bruce Haight has won three outright and split for first twice.

The magic number seems to be 10. The question as always is, can we reach 10 players? This week, the answer is no.

Tournament Finals Analysis

Jason Lee recorded the match between Sho and Osman. Sho took the transcript and loaded it into GNU, where it could be analyzed. Here is the analysis of the finals using GNU.

We may try to record more tournament matches in the future!

Player of the Month for July 2004

Sho Sengoku is the BCSD Player of the Month for July 2004. Sho has now won three consecutive Player of the Month Awards. This month, Sho only placed in two tournaments, but he won them both. Tom Fahland placed in all four tournaments in July -- winning one and splitting for third place in the other three for a total of 13 points.

Here are the top point getters for each month this year:

Jan 2004:  Bruce Haight 15 points
Feb 2004:  Jason Lee    17 points
Mar 2004:  Tom Fahland  15 points
Apr 2004:  Adrian Costa 12 points
May 2004:  Sho Sengoku  28 points
Jun 2004:  Sho Sengoku  24 points
Jul 2004:  Sho Sengoku  16 points

Current Master Points Standings

 1. Sho Sengoku      82
 2. Jason Lee        57
 3. Bruce Haight     56
 4. Adrian Costa     44
 5. Tom Fahland      43
 6. Osman Guner      37
 7. Fred Kamgar      29
 8. Eric Sedehi      24
 9. Cyrus Mobedshahi 18
10. Henry Chaboki    12
11. Bruce Discher     9
11. Marcia Karen      9
13. Ned Cross         8
14. Greg Kopp         6
15. Vito Volpetti     4
16. Chris Rosin       3
16. Mark Weiner       3
18. Ryan Knowles      2
19. Maira Costa       1
19. Sam Mehri         1

It's turning into a runaway, as Sho has opened up a 25 point lead on the competition. Sho could just about take a month off and be guaranteed to still hold the top spot.

The point leader at the end of the year will be named the BCSD Player of the Year, and the top 16 in the Master Point standings will be invited to the 2004 BCSD Tournament of Champions, to be held in early 2005.

Problem of the Week

Here's a position from a BCSD tournament match between Osman Guner (Black) and Sho Sengoku (White) on 6 July 2004. We previously failed to give the match score between the two players, which is included now.

No new problem this week, but check back next week.

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