2-Day ACF National 3-Move “Arthur Niederhoffer ” Youth Tournament
was held on July 28^th & July 29^th 2012 in Lebanon, TN 37087
at Americas Best Value Inn & Suites, on Highway 231 (822 Cumberland Street) at exit 238 north off I-40

left - right front: Angel Hidebrand, Trisha McKinnon, Jeremy Herman, Tyler Brown, Anthony Oliveres, Tyler Harrell,
Freedom Shackley, Oressa Kinsey, back row: Alex Holmes, Alex Moiseyev, Kim Willis, Ron "Suki" King, and Laura Parker   

3-Move / Seven 2 game rounds Swiss of ½ hour per game - Scoring by game - playing: 4 rounds Saturday and 3 rounds Sunday

2012 National Youth Open Single Class By Round, 2Gm					before	after
Finish	Name	City, State	Age	ACF#	Rate	Rate	Op	Rd1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Rd 6	Rd 7	T.Pt.	S.B.	Cash	Comments
1	Alex Holmes	Sellersburg, IN	13	10066	1878	1878	10	5T4	3T4	9T4	1T4	2T4	8T4	6T4	28	100.00	$45.00	2012 Nat Open Youth Boy's Champ
2	Laura Parker	Pass Christian, MS	13	12686	1600	1590	9	4T4	2T3	10T0	8T2	5T4	6T2	3T4	19	57.00	$30.00	2012 Nat Open Youth Girl's Champ
3	Anthony Olivares	Eldon, MO	13	12679	1600	1590	2	7T4	9T1	1T4	6T2	10T0	4T3	5T4	18	45.00	$25.00
4	Tyler Brown	Eldon, MO	11	12685	1600	1590	8	3T4	1T2	5T2	9T2	6T3	10T0	7T4	17	41.00	$10.00
5	Trisha McKinnon	Eldon, MO	13	12678	1600	1590	1	6T4	8T2	2T0	10T0	3T3	7T4	4T3	16	36.50	$10.00
6	Jeremy Herman	Eldon, MO	12	12683	1600	1590	6	1T0	4T3	7T4	2T2	8T1	9T2	10T0	12	32.00	$10.00
7	Oressa Kinsey	Eldon, MO	12	12681	1600	1590	4	9T0	6T1	3T2	5T2	7T4	2T1	1T1	11	21.50	$5.00
8	Tyler Harrell	Eldon, MO	12	12682	1600	1590	5	10T0	7T3	8T2	4T2	9T0	3T2	2T0	9	19.25	$5.00
9	Freedom Shackley	Eldon, MO	10	12680	1600	1590	3	8T0	10T0	4T2	7T4	1T1	5T2	9T0	9	15.00	$5.00
10	Angel Hidebrand	Eldon, MO	13	12684	1600	1590	7	2T0	5T1	6T0	3T0	4T0	1T0	8T0	1	2.25	$5.00
	On ACF forum 7/29/12																$150.00

• Sam Parker from Pass Christian, MS opened the Youth National closing ceremony, thanking the youth players and their parents for participating in a National Checker event.  Sam announced that next years Youth National would take place at the ICHF (International Checker Hall of Fame) in Petal, Mississippi.  Charles Walker will help the traveling players by covering their food and hotel expenses.  Many more children will be there, for example they had 30-40 kids at their MS Open this year.
  

• Kim Willis served as master of ceremonies, calling up the players individually to the front, recognizing their achievement, and presenting their awards at the closing ceremony. 
  

• Congratulations to all our National Youth Checker Players for participation in this National Checker event.
  

• Big Thank you to: Kim Willis, John Acker, Charles Walker, Sam Parker, & Vic Niederhoffer for their support and sponsorship, Alex Moiseyev, & Ron King also participated as checker celebrities, and especially the parents who supported their children by bring them to Lebanon. Ms. Stacy Lawless, who managed the afterschool checker programs in Eldon also attended Lebanon.
  

• All the National Youth Tournament Players received a 4th International Match Book donated by ICHF - Charles Walker, Finish Position Ribbon, Participation Certificate, Tournament Cash Prize, and had their picture taken individually between Alex and Kim with their certificate at the closing ceremony.
  

• Grand Master Ron "Suki" King and Grand Master Alex Moiseyev participated in the closing ceremony, Alex autographed all the officially signed National Youth Participation Certificates.
  

• Anthony Olivares, 3rd place winner received a 3rd place achievement medallion, and a Checkers - ICHF Annual Magazine for 2011 published by Charles Walker in addition to the rest of his awards.
  

• Laura Parker won 2nd place, receiving a 2nd place achievement medallion, a Checkers - ICHF Annual Magazine for 2011 published by Charles Walker in addition to the rest of her awards.
  

• Alex Holmes won the Youth National with a perfect score of 28 game points out of possible 28, receiving a 1st place achievement medallion, a Checkers - ICHF Annual Magazine for 2011 published by Charles Walker in addition to the rest of his awards. He was also the only ACF rated play in this tournament.
  

• All players except Holmes were unrated players before they played in this tournament so they were put into the system as a 1600 base average rating, they will + or - according to their performance with other rated players.  An unrated player is considered provisional for the first 20 games and 1600 was the average ACF rating when Eric Strange took over the old Dave Butler rating system and started this new rating program.

• We appreciate all those players who contributed and donated to the youth program so this even was possible. 
  

• Nice video was shot by John Acker on the closing ceremony at the Youth Tournament...  Link
  

• Great reporting by John Acker on the ACF Youth National with complete pairings, up to date round reporting, and following and publishing the event in a timely fashion right up to their finish positions, and later did the same for the adult National -  http://acfnationals.com/
  

• A nice newspaper article about Hugh Burton, who was our National Tournament Honoree ran Sunday, July 29, 2012 in the Jackson Sun News - Link
  

• The Lebanon Democrat Newspaper sent out Mary Hinds, staff writer and Dallus Whitfield, photographer to get a nice article and pictures on the 2012 ACF “3-Move Hugh R. Burton National Open” Checker Tournament, which ran in The Lebanon Democrat Saturday, August 4th  paper.
  

2012 Tournament Dates  |  2012 Adult National Results  |  Photos