2010 WCDF 3-Move World Qualifying Tournament 

The 2010 WCDF 3-Move World Qualification Tournament will be held October 27th - 30th, 2010  (Wed-Sat) in Radisson Hotel at Dublin Airport, Ireland. 

Congratulations to Michele Borghetti of Italy!

Michele Borghetti of Italy won the 2010 World Qualifier of the WCDF ahead of the legendary Ron King of Barbados.
Both scored 23 points, but Michele had the better tiebreaker.  Third was Shane McCosker of Ireland who tied Ron 2-2 in the last round and won against Michele 3-1 in the last but one round.  He scored 20 points.  Borghetti has played for the first time in a major tournament of the English style pf checkers. But, like Lubabalo Kondlo in 20007, he is no stranger to the game.  In Italy, under the only slightly different rules of Italian "Dama", he is regarded as the best player of all times, with about the same reputation that Marion Tinsley has for English checkers/draughts.  He now has the right to challenge Alex Moiseyev in 2011, which I am sure he will do.  Congratulations to "Grande Michele"
Reported by Ingo Zachos - Facebook -October 31, 2010 6:24am

Final Standings:    Men: Place, Name, Nation, Title, Elo, Points, Sonneborn/Berger 1 Borghetti, Michele ITA - - 23 417 2 King, Ron BAR GM 2556 23 412 3 McCosker, Shane NIR GM 2408 20 346 4 Webster, John USA IM 2357 20 329 5 Schwartz, Joe USA IM 2382 19 330 6 Owens, Garrett IRL IM 2363 18 286 7 Durdyev, Baghtiyar TRM GM 2444 17 284 8 Tovagliaro, Roberto ITA CM 2319 17 280 9 Holmes, Michael USA IM 2272 17 277 10 Martynov, Igor GER IM 2330 17 273 11 Shabshai, Michael ISR IM 2384 17 267 12 Hannigan, Myles NIR IM 2378 17 246 13 Morrison, Jim USA GM 2411 16 253 14 Durdyev, Bashim TRM IM 2290 16 230 15 Durdyeva, Amangul TRM IM 2406 16 202 16 Kareta, Filip CZE IM 2286 15 231 17 Young, Colin SCO IM 2255 14 193 18 Wien, Thomas GER - 1990 14 156 19 Moran, Frank IRL IM 2227 13 166 20 Oliphant, Danny SCO IM 2180 12 149 21 Boyle, Anthony ENG IM 2237 12 148 22 Doyle, Paddy IRL CM 2255 11 133 23 Rose, Anthony ENG - 2149 10 121 24 Tichy, Jaroslav CZE - 2069 10 119 Sonneborn-Berger Points are figured by multiplying the honor points you would receive from an opponent, by the score you received against them. Thus, it’s an indication of how good your opponents were you played, and also how well you did against these opponents you played. Women: 1 1 2 2 3 3 1 Toyeva, Hugmangul, TRM, 2086, X X 2 2 3 4 (11pts) 2 Mortimer, Jan, NZL, 1903, 2 2 X X 3 3 (10pts) 3 Willis, Kim, USA, 1741, 1 0 1 1 X X (3pts) Youth: Durdyev, Maksat TRM 1727 4 3 2 4 13 Gochakov, Gochmyrat TRM 1433 0 1 2 0 3 Thx to John Reade and Graham Young. Reported by Ingo Zachos at ACF Forum Tue, Nov 02, 2010 5:37 pm

1st 10 finish positions of 2010 WQT:
1.   Michele Borghetti  from Italy 23pts  (SB 417- Sonneborn-Berger )
2.   Ron King from Barbados 23pts (SB 412)
3.   Shane McCosker from Northern Ireland  20 pts
4.  John Webster from USA 20 pts
5.  Joe Schwartz from USA 19 pts
6.  Garrett Owens from Ireland 18 pts
7.  Baghtiyar Durdyev from Turkmenistan 17pts (SB 284)
8.  Roberto Tovagliaro from Italy 17pts (SB 280)
9.  Michael Holmes from USA 17pts (BS 277)
10. Igor Martynov from Germany 17pts (SB 273)

youthful, 18 years old, Hugmangul Toyeva from Turkmenistan

The Women's event was a three way contest. Kim Willis lost 3-1 against Jan Mortimer, and also lost 3-1 against Toyeva Hermangul (Turkmenistan).
The youth event has just two players, both from Turkmenistan - Maksat Durdyev, Gochakov Gochmyrat.
Reported by Ingo Zachos via ACF Forum -Tue, Nov 02, 2010 5:37 pm
ACF Forum link:  http://www.usacheckers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16579#p16579