2009 District 1 & New England States Open

The New England District 1 and States Open Championship will be held at the home of Richard White, 8 Pine Street, Dover, Massachusetts 02030-2423, Sunday, June 14th, 2009.

Register 9:00 a.m. 1st round play starts at 10:00 a.m. - Over by 5-6 p.m.
Highest finishing N.E. resident will be the District One Champion; the highest finishing player from each N.E. state will be the Champion of that State.
Round Robin - Go-As-You-Pleas... No First Move Limitations.
Contact Richard White by 7 p.m. June 13th if you plan to attend. Detail and directions, email whitefork@comcast.net
Phone 617-563-2741 Richard White
No entry fee gets you register and a $5.00 contribution appreciated, which includes a nice lunch buffet from the local deli which is pretty good for sandwiches & pizza. Plus salad, donuts, cake, coffee, soda, peanuts, grapes etc.
No cash prize money.

District 1 contains States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, & Vermont
District 1 Manager: Richard White

13 hours - 750 miles from Greensboro to Dover, MA. - See MapQuest

RESULTS:

2009 New England & District 1 States Open
Sunday, June 14 - Richard White's home - 8 Pine Street, Dover, MA

GAYP Round Robin (30 minutes per game)

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Player
State
R1
R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 Pts Comments

1 101406 1515 Ed McDuffee NH 8T0 7T0 6T0 5T0 4T2 3T2 2T2 6
2009 New Hampshire Champion

2 101254 1689 Bill Wheeler MA 7T1 5T0 3T1 8T0 6T2 4T2 1T0 6

3 101255 1716 Steve Kelly MA 6T1 4T2 2T1 7T0 5T2 1T0 8T0 6

4 101407 1307
John Michalowski
ME 5T0 3T0 8T0 6T0 1T0 2T0 7T0 0
2009 Maine State Champion

5 101259 1920 Joe Margolin MA 4T2 2T2 7T2 1T2 3T0 8T2 6T2 12
2009 New England & Massachusetts Champ

6 101408 1515
Steve Catanese
MA 3T1 8T0 1T2 4T2 2T0 7T1 5T0 6

7 101074 1860 Al Darrow CT 2T1 1T2 5T0 3T2 8T2 6T1 4T2 10
2009 Connecticut Champion

8 101258 1775 Richard White MA 1T2 6T2 4T2 2T2 7T0 5T0 3T2 10

Joe Margolin of Westwood defeated Al Darrow of Connecticut in a hard-fought last round game to take the New England and Massachusetts titles (12 points).

Tied for second were Richard White and Al Darrow (10 points) followed by Ed McDuffee (New Hampshire champion), Bill Wheeler, Steve Kelly, Steve Catanese, and John Michalowski (Maine champion).

No players were undefeated.

Al Darrow requested (and Richard White agreed) that this years Connecticut State Champion not be determined by the outcome of the District I tournament , since most of the CT players could not make this tournament. So they will be having a separate CT Ck Ty later this year to determine the CT State Champion.

Tournament was a GAYP, 7 rounds of Round Robin, scored by game, and the X represents a bye round, and the T separates players' opponent from Players' game points for that round.

Crosstable results submitted by Richard White email 6/14/2009 5:12PM as:
1. Ed McDuffee X 2wheeler2 3Kelly2 4Michalowski2 5Margolin0 6Catanese0 7Darrow0 8White0 = 6   (2009 New Hampshire Champion)
2. Bill Wheeler 1McDuffee0 X 3Kelly1 4Michalowski2 5Margolin0 6Catanese2 7Darrow1 8White0 = 6
3. Steve Kelly 1McDuffee0 2Wheeler1 X 4Michalowski2 5Margolin2 6Catanese1 7Darrow0 8White 0 = 6
4. John Michalowski 10 20 30 X 50 60 70 80 = 0 (2009 Maine State Champion)
5. Joe Margolin 1McDuffee2 2Wheeler2 3Kelly0 4Michalowski2 X 6Catanese2 7Darrow2 8White2 = 12    (2009 New England & Massachusetts Champion)
6. Steve Catanese 1McDuffee2 2Wheeler0 3Kelly1 4Michalowski2 5Margolin0 X 7Darrow1 8White0 = 6
7. Al Darrow 1McDuffee2 2Wheeler1 3Kelly2 4Michalowski2 5Margolin0 6Catanese1 X 8White2 = 10 (2009 Connecticut Champion)
8. Richard White 1McDuffee2 2Wheeler2 3Kelly2 4Michalowski2 5Margolin0 6Catanese2 7Darrow0 X = 10
(They pair 1st round and after that, finished players pair themselves with whoever is available until everyone has played each other.) No clocks, time limits, or lunch breaks, this way those who want to take a little longer can, and once the game is over, they record the results and move on to the next available players.
Newspaper Article
6/16/2009 Wicked Local Dover -"Checkers champ crowned: Dover couple host New-England-tournament"

2009 Tournament Dates