{"id":292,"date":"2019-08-25T01:02:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T01:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/?p=292"},"modified":"2019-08-25T01:02:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T01:02:57","slug":"august-2019-backgammon-tournament-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/?p=292","title":{"rendered":"August 2019 Backgammon Tournament Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a good showing this month &#8211; 10 players, including 2 newcomers, Naomi and Ali. Steve came back (all the way from Hillsboro), and a lot of the standard crew made it as well.<\/p>\n<p>From a logistical standpoint, we had a great tournament, in that most of the first round finished at about the same time. This is important, because the way I dealt with the odd number of pairs was to give one second round and one third round bye, and it&#8217;s fairer to do that by random lot. Martin got the second round bye, I got the third round one. Tim didn&#8217;t get a bye, but he did win the tournament &#8211; something he claims has never happened before! Congrats Tim.<\/p>\n<p>I faced Tim in the final, and he was having a good day indeed. This is the cube he offered me in our first game (match to 5):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-293\" src=\"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_20190818_153954-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20190818_153954\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a really solid double, in spite of him not having moved his back checkers at all yet &#8211; he has 4 builders aiming at my blot on his 2 point, 3 builders aiming at my blot on his 4 point, I have no board going, he&#8217;s up in the race&#8230; He has Position, Race, and Threat. I have a drop.<\/p>\n<p>In the second game, I had an opportunity to return the favor, when I shipped him a cube at this point:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-294\" src=\"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_20190818_154823-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20190818_154823\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This time, I have Position and Race, although I&#8217;m only up 121-135. The threat is that he&#8217;ll dance several times, as I escape the back checkers and\/or finish the blitz. But it&#8217;s a weaker Race and a weaker Threat than the cube from the first game. Does he have a take?<\/p>\n<p>No, no he does not. And Tim recognized that, correctly dropping.<\/p>\n<p>From there, I went on to take a 3-1 lead. Then he had the temerity to gammon me in a doubled game to win the match. Can you believe it? I could &#8211; it happens to me more often than I care to think about.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, the top of the cumulative results for the year are as follows:<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--><\/style>\n<table dir=\"ltr\" border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<colgroup>\n<col width=\"100\" \/>\n<col width=\"100\" \/>\n<col width=\"100\" \/><\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Player&quot;}\">Player<\/td>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Games Played&quot;}\">Games Played<\/td>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Games Won&quot;}\">Games Won<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Mark W&quot;}\">Mark W<\/td>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:3,&quot;3&quot;:21}\" data-sheets-formula=\"=R[0]C[2]+R[0]C[4]+R[0]C[6]+R[0]C[8]+R[0]C[10]+R[0]C[12]+R[0]C[14]\">21<\/td>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:3,&quot;3&quot;:13}\" data-sheets-formula=\"=R[0]C[2]+R[0]C[4]+R[0]C[6]+R[0]C[8]+R[0]C[10]+R[0]C[12]+R[0]C[14]\">13<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Tim&quot;}\">Tim<\/td>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:3,&quot;3&quot;:17}\" data-sheets-formula=\"=R[0]C[2]+R[0]C[4]+R[0]C[6]+R[0]C[8]+R[0]C[10]+R[0]C[12]+R[0]C[14]\">17<\/td>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:3,&quot;3&quot;:6}\" data-sheets-formula=\"=R[0]C[2]+R[0]C[4]+R[0]C[6]+R[0]C[8]+R[0]C[10]+R[0]C[12]+R[0]C[14]\">6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Nate&quot;}\">Nate<\/td>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:3,&quot;3&quot;:15}\" data-sheets-formula=\"=R[0]C[2]+R[0]C[4]+R[0]C[6]+R[0]C[8]+R[0]C[10]+R[0]C[12]+R[0]C[14]\">15<\/td>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:3,&quot;3&quot;:8}\" data-sheets-formula=\"=R[0]C[2]+R[0]C[4]+R[0]C[6]+R[0]C[8]+R[0]C[10]+R[0]C[12]+R[0]C[14]\">8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Chris&quot;}\">Chris<\/td>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:3,&quot;3&quot;:11}\" data-sheets-formula=\"=R[0]C[2]+R[0]C[4]+R[0]C[6]+R[0]C[8]+R[0]C[10]+R[0]C[12]+R[0]C[14]\">11<\/td>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:3,&quot;3&quot;:6}\" data-sheets-formula=\"=R[0]C[2]+R[0]C[4]+R[0]C[6]+R[0]C[8]+R[0]C[10]+R[0]C[12]+R[0]C[14]\">6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Ed&quot;}\">Ed<\/td>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:3,&quot;3&quot;:10}\" data-sheets-formula=\"=R[0]C[2]+R[0]C[4]+R[0]C[6]+R[0]C[8]+R[0]C[10]+R[0]C[12]+R[0]C[14]\">10<\/td>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:3,&quot;3&quot;:6}\" data-sheets-formula=\"=R[0]C[2]+R[0]C[4]+R[0]C[6]+R[0]C[8]+R[0]C[10]+R[0]C[12]+R[0]C[14]\">6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Bryan&quot;}\">Bryan<\/td>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:3,&quot;3&quot;:10}\" data-sheets-formula=\"=R[0]C[2]+R[0]C[4]+R[0]C[6]+R[0]C[8]+R[0]C[10]+R[0]C[12]+R[0]C[14]\">10<\/td>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:3,&quot;3&quot;:6}\" data-sheets-formula=\"=R[0]C[2]+R[0]C[4]+R[0]C[6]+R[0]C[8]+R[0]C[10]+R[0]C[12]+R[0]C[14]\">6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Michael&quot;}\">Michael<\/td>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:3,&quot;3&quot;:9}\" data-sheets-formula=\"=R[0]C[2]+R[0]C[4]+R[0]C[6]+R[0]C[8]+R[0]C[10]+R[0]C[12]+R[0]C[14]\">9<\/td>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:3,&quot;3&quot;:6}\" data-sheets-formula=\"=R[0]C[2]+R[0]C[4]+R[0]C[6]+R[0]C[8]+R[0]C[10]+R[0]C[12]+R[0]C[14]\">6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Joel&quot;}\">Joel<\/td>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:3,&quot;3&quot;:9}\" data-sheets-formula=\"=R[0]C[2]+R[0]C[4]+R[0]C[6]+R[0]C[8]+R[0]C[10]+R[0]C[12]+R[0]C[14]\">9<\/td>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:3,&quot;3&quot;:4}\" data-sheets-formula=\"=R[0]C[2]+R[0]C[4]+R[0]C[6]+R[0]C[8]+R[0]C[10]+R[0]C[12]+R[0]C[14]\">4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Martin&quot;}\">Martin<\/td>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:3,&quot;3&quot;:9}\" data-sheets-formula=\"=R[0]C[2]+R[0]C[4]+R[0]C[6]+R[0]C[8]+R[0]C[10]+R[0]C[12]+R[0]C[14]\">9<\/td>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:3,&quot;3&quot;:4}\" data-sheets-formula=\"=R[0]C[2]+R[0]C[4]+R[0]C[6]+R[0]C[8]+R[0]C[10]+R[0]C[12]+R[0]C[14]\">4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Steve&quot;}\">Steve<\/td>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:3,&quot;3&quot;:7}\" 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Tim and Nate are jockeying for most games of anyone who doesn&#8217;t control the system, thereby guaranteeing that he&#8217;ll get more playing time than anyone else in Portland.<\/p>\n<p>See you next month!<\/p>\n<p>-Mark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a good showing this month &#8211; 10 players, including 2 newcomers, Naomi and Ali. Steve came back (all the way from Hillsboro), and a lot of the standard crew made it as well. From a logistical standpoint, we had a great tournament, in that most of the first round finished at about the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/?p=292\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;August 2019 Backgammon Tournament Results&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}