2008 Ohio State
 RESULTS
2008 Ohio State Open
September 6^th & 7^th at Rodeway Inn Medina Conference Center, Medina, Ohio
Class A

NO	Player	City - State	Points	Cash	Comments
1-2	GM Ron King	St. George, Barbados	20	$110.00	King & Moiseyev tied Ohio State Tourney
1-2	GM Alex Moiseyev	Dublin, OH	20	110.00	2008 Ohio State Champion
3-4	Lubabalo Kondlo	Port Elizabeth, S. Africa	18	55.00
3-4	Michael Holmes	Louisville, KY	18	55.00
5	Louis Cowie	Painesville, OH	14	30.00
6	Dr. Richard Beckwith	Willoughby, OH	12
7	Alan Millhone	Belpre, OH	7
8	Gene Ellison	Norris City, IL	3
				$360.00

• Congratulations to GM Alex Moiseyev for retaining his Ohio State Championship Title!  (highest finishing resident)

• No honor points for this division as they played 7 Rounds of 3-Move Round Robin.

• Class A got delayed by a lengthy adjudication process.

• As always, Rich Beckwith did an admirable job combining the roles of organizer/referee and player, particularly given the extra stresses of dealing with a film crew and making a tough adjudication decision on one of the Class A games.
• Total Class A Cash Prize $360.00.
• Vince Delong visited the tournament and including Ed "Pal" Bucker but didn't play because of illness.
• We had 17 participants representing 7 states and 4 countries.
• Contributions were received from Joe LoConti ($240), Rich Beckwith ($57 + playing room charge), Howard Hoover ($25), Michael Holmes ($23), Ted Williamson ($20), Gene Ellison ($10), Steve Holliday (2 books, snacks).  Howard Hoover won a raffle for a glass chess/checker/backgammon set, and donated back his cash prize.
• First day of  GAYP-WCM action on Monday (King vs Kondlo) September 8-13, 2008.
• The above posted on ACF Forum  9/72008 2:43PM by John Acker
• Above reported results was officially update with Dr. Beckwith email 9/9/2008 8:26AM

• Congratulations to John Acker as the New 2008 Ohio State Class B Champion! (highest finishing resident)

• Class B division  played 7 Rounds of 3-Move Swiss.

• A film crew produce a documentary on checkers and  they've interviewing players and taking pictures.  The newspaper will also do an article.
• John Acker reported, "I had a fairly good tourney, losing only one game to Joe despite being in bad positions at several other points. We had a bit of a statistical oddity after Round 6: since neither Jan nor I (we were playing each other) had had a bye round yet, Jan figured out that if he lost the match then he would be guaranteed a 3-point bye and at least 2nd place, while if I lost or drew, I would have the same advantage. As it turned out I had a win and a draw with Jan (the draw was a nice game, which I'll post later) and a win and a draw with Neil in the final, but that was the first time I've ever seen someone get more points for losing than winning!"
• Total Class B Cash Prize $195.00 and Total Tournament Cash Prize $555.00.
• The above posted on ACF Forum  9/72008 2:43PM by John Acker
and officially update with Dr. Beckwith email 9/9/2008 8:26AM

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