2011 Texas State & District 8 Tournament
District 8 contains States: Arkansas, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and their District 8 Manager: Faye Harvell
The Texas Tournament will be held June 10^th & 11^th (Friday & Saturday) at the Super 8 Motel,
910 N. Central Expressway (on Highway 75), McKinney, TX 75069 (map) Phone # 972-548-8880


Wayne Gober TX/D8 Co-Champ District 8 & OK State Champ	Albert Tucker TX/D8 Co-Champ Tournament Winner	Ed King Texas State Champ	John Post AR State Champ Challenger	Ken Shultz TX/D8 Class B Champ	Lester Binnick Texas Class B Champ

(Official Crosstable Results)
3-Move / Seven 2 game rounds of Round-Robin of 1 hour per game - playing 4 rounds Friday, 3 rounds Saturday

2011 TX State Open / District 8
Class A - Master Division By Round, 2Gm

Finish
Name City, State
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1 Wayne Gober Shawnee, OK 10014 2003 101336 2159 1 5T3 6T4 7T8 8T9 2T12 3T16 4T19 $77.50 2011 TX/D8 Co-Champ, D8 & Oklahoma State Champ

6 Stephen Graham Odessa, TX 10075 1592 101178 1747 2 4T0 5T0 6T1 7T5 1T6 8T6 3T9 $20.00

7 Hugh Hawkins Howe, TX 10077 1707 101161 1670 3 8T2 4T4 5T5 6T5 7T7 1T7 2T8 $10.00

5 Ed King Graham, TX 10018 2137 101083 2053 4 2T4 3T6 8T9 5T10 6T11 7T14 1T15 $25.00 2011 Texas State Champion

3 Larry Pollard Brilliant, AL 10093 2028 101131 2150 5 1T1 2T5 3T8 4T11 8T11 6T15 7T18 $40.00

4 John Post Russellville, AR 100xx unrated 101145 1689 6 7T1 1T4 2T7 3T11 4T14 5T14 8T17 $30.00 2011 AR State Champ Challenger

8 Earle Sweatmon Kaufman, TX 10073 1919 101185 1852 7 6T3 8T3 1T3 2T3 3T5 4T6 5T7 $10.00

1 CM Albert Tucker Minden, LA 10127 2003 101060 2121 8 3T2 7T6 4T7 1T10 5T14 2T18 6T19 $77.50 2011 TX/District 8 Co-Champions (tied 1st place)

TOTAL

$290.00

(Official Crosstable Results)
3-Move / Five 2 game rounds of Round-Robin with 2 rounds of Swiss of 1 hour per game - playing 4 rounds Friday, 3 rounds Saturday

2011 TX State Open / District 8
Class B - Majors Division By Round, 2Gm

Finish
Name City, State
ACF#

Rate

WCDF#

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Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Rd 7
Cash

Comments

3 Lester Binnick Houston, TX 12515 1542 101xxx unrated 1 3T0 2T2 5T6 6T6 4T9 5T13 4T15 $30.00 2011 TX/District 8 Majors Champion

6 Elbert Jones Carthage, TX 10038 1440 101296 1750 2 6T0 1T2 3T2 4T3 5T4 4T6 5T8 $10.00

1 Ken Shultz Cosby, TN 10086 1831 101144 1897 3 1T4 4T8 2T12 5T16 6T18 6T20 6T22 $70.00 wins the 2011 TX/District 8 Majors

4 JR Smith Greensboro, NC 10098 1569 101124 1792 4 5T2 3T2 6T3 2T6 1T7 2T9 1T11 $20.00

5 Glen Welsh Decatur, TX 10071 1655 101192 1667 5 4T2 6T3 1T3 3T3 2T6 1T6 2T8 $10.00

2 Ted Williamson Kenova, WV 10024 1512 101321 1821 6 2T4 5T7 4T10 1T14 3T16 3T18 3T20 $50.00

TOTAL $190.00

Congratulations to Wayne Gober as a Co-Champion winner of the 2011 Texas Open / District 8, and retains his District 8 Championship Title, and the 2011Oklahoma State Champion. His third in a row.

Congratulations to CM Albert Tucker as a Co-Champion winner of the 2011 Texas Open / District 8, sharing 1st place with Wayne Gober.

Congratulations to Ed King as the 2011 Texas State Champion, who has won it ever year since Faye restarted the District 8 in 2007.

Congratulations to John Post as the 2011 Arkansas State Champion, but this maybe is premature since Jerry Childers has 27 of these Arkansas State Championships, with his last in 2006. These two might want to challenge each other for the AR State Title?

Congratulations to Les Binnick as the 2011 TX/District 8 Majors Champion.

Congratulations to Ken Shultz as the winner of the 2011Texas Open / District 8 Majors.

GM stands for Grand Master, IM for International Master, and CM for Candidate Master, which are earned titles given by WCDF to distinguish accomplished players.

Ratings are from the new ACF Ratings by Eric Strange (2011) and WCDF Rating No.7 (through June 2010) released 10/20/2010.

"T" separates player's opponent from player's accumulated game points. Draw is 1, Win is 2 points, Bye is 3, and Forfeit is 4.

District 8 contains States: Arkansas, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and their District 8 Manager: Faye Harvell

Mrs. Faye Harvell Open the Texas Tournament by welcoming players to the Texas Open & District 8 with remembrance of Earl, the Tournament Memorial was a fitting tribute to Earl Harvell. Ted Williamson held a short service memorial to Mr. Harvell, We hear some beautiful, personal remembrances, and recollections from players who was close to Earl. Hugh Hawkins contributed his tribute to Earl, including a presentation of plaque to Faye from the Texas Checker Players. It was inscribed as: "Texas #1 Checker Ambassador." There were pictures, close friends and relatives that visited the tournament. Faye's two sons, Steve and Travis Mounger visited with us. Earl's nephew Derrel and Tina Lokey of Wylie, TX and a good friend and neighbor Bill and Donna Day from McKinney were there also.

Here is a scanned copy of Earl's funeral service program.

During the 8:30AM business meeting we voted to play two Divisions: a Masters and Majors, both with 2 hour rounds. The Masters would play 7 rounds of Round-Robin with the winners sharing the title as Co-Champions in the event the top finisher were tied in game points since there would be no honor points. The Majors division would play 5 rounds of Round-Robin with the last two rounds re-paired under the Swiss System.

We elect Albert Tucker as official referee with Ed King as assistant. Faye Harvell officiating the tournament with Carol Williamson as Scorekeeper. Time would be adjudicated by Albert Tucker at 1 minute a move and judgment call by Tucker & or King if necessary. 1st game concluded by 1^1/4 hours, so the opponent with the advantaged second game has a fair and equal time.

A number of players renewed their ACF membership when registering to play. Larry Pollard bought two years.

We enjoyed plenty of cold drinks, pastries, various cakes and peach cobblers, through out tournament. A delicious lunch. Beef brisket, bake beans, potato salad, macaroni salad, homemade bread, rolls, buns, etc. We had an abundant of choices as delicious desserts, like German Chocolate, Pound Cake, various other cakes, pies, and breads.

We had 16 players from 8 states (8 Masters, 6 Majors played) 7 Texans, and one player each from these states: AL, AR, LA, NC, OK, TN, and WV. Nine players wives attended: Gayle Smith, Carol Williamson, Terry Gober, Louise King, Paralee Shultz, Judy Hawkins, Sue Tucker, and of course Faye Harvell.

Door prizes of gospel music CDs and checker move recorder booklets were given out to all players. The player who traveled the most distance, JR & Gayle Smith 1,125 miles was recognized.

We appreciated the donations and contributions which totaled $480.00 for the cash prize fund. Masters $290.00 and Majors $190.00 An entry fee of $20.00.

This Super 8 continental breakfast is the usual but it did have a waffle iron that made "Texas Shaped Waffles" which was a novelty; however, it must have burned out since the current one makes the usual circular ones now.

A delightful tournament & wonderful fellowship was had by all who attended.

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