Backgammon: Sean's win record is 100%!
We made it to the backgammon last night. It is held in a slightly dodgy pub called the "Mill Hill Hotel" in Bondi Junction. We went on the train from Town Hall station (a couple of minutes walk from our house) and it took about 15 mins.
I went out in the first round to a New Zealander called Charlie. He had actually been the first person we met when we arrived so we had had quite a good chance to talk to him. He's quite hard to describe - certainly a character!
After I went out, I went straight into a chouette as there is no consolation tournament. I played for quite a while and ended 7 points up which at $5 a point paid for my $30 entry. Nice.
But meanwhile Sean was steaming through the tournament. He beat Jay (acknowledged by Charlie to be a "very good player") in the first round and then avenged me against Charlie in the second round. He then took on Sol in the third: I looked over and it was 6-1 to Sean but when I looked back considerably later his opponent had clawed his way back to 6-6. Needless to say, Sean put paid to his comeback and won a place in the final.
The other semi-final had not even started and it must have been about 10:30 by this time. As we have to leave by 12am when the bar shuts it didn't look like the final was going to happen. At 11:30 or so Sean agreed to split the winning and took home $200. There was a roll-off for who "won"the tournament and Sean did. 100% win record!
Sorry for those of you who doesn't know what any of that was about - I'll try and keep backgammon tales a bit short next time! Still we bought a new game last weekend. It's called Runebound and looks a bit like Talisman. We started a trial game but didn't manage the 4 hours for a full game. Maybe next weekend...
We made it to the backgammon last night. It is held in a slightly dodgy pub called the "Mill Hill Hotel" in Bondi Junction. We went on the train from Town Hall station (a couple of minutes walk from our house) and it took about 15 mins.
I went out in the first round to a New Zealander called Charlie. He had actually been the first person we met when we arrived so we had had quite a good chance to talk to him. He's quite hard to describe - certainly a character!
After I went out, I went straight into a chouette as there is no consolation tournament. I played for quite a while and ended 7 points up which at $5 a point paid for my $30 entry. Nice.
But meanwhile Sean was steaming through the tournament. He beat Jay (acknowledged by Charlie to be a "very good player") in the first round and then avenged me against Charlie in the second round. He then took on Sol in the third: I looked over and it was 6-1 to Sean but when I looked back considerably later his opponent had clawed his way back to 6-6. Needless to say, Sean put paid to his comeback and won a place in the final.
The other semi-final had not even started and it must have been about 10:30 by this time. As we have to leave by 12am when the bar shuts it didn't look like the final was going to happen. At 11:30 or so Sean agreed to split the winning and took home $200. There was a roll-off for who "won"the tournament and Sean did. 100% win record!
Sorry for those of you who doesn't know what any of that was about - I'll try and keep backgammon tales a bit short next time! Still we bought a new game last weekend. It's called Runebound and looks a bit like Talisman. We started a trial game but didn't manage the 4 hours for a full game. Maybe next weekend...
posted by Zoe at 7:06 PM
3 Comments:
Glad to hear that you have made it to the Sydney Backgammon Club and was thrilled when I checked their site to see Sean had 6 points to his name already. For once Sean is ahead of Zoe in the wins stakes! Let me see – there are 16 more weeks until the ladder ends and the highest number of points a player has is 26. It’s gonna be tough (but not impossible) for either of yous to win the ladder having missed 9 weeks of play. But on a pro rata basis nobody has done as well as Sean. Keep that up and I think Sean is due a special prize.
But Zoe what is this about taking a train and not walking there? You getting lazy over there? Ah, wait a min, from memory it’s all uphill to Bondi from the town centre. Ok. I’ll let you off.
I’ve just written the report of March ’06 Backgammon in Camden:
http://www.backpacker-backgammon.com/camden/old/007.html
In it I’ve taken the liberty of including links to both this blog and SBC. Hope that’s ok. Out of sight is not out of mind.
You apologise to those not interested in backgammon for your backgammon report. Na, na, na, na. We backgammoners want them please.
I’ve had an email about The Australian Games Expo, 2006 - Albury NSW on Sat 10th & Sun 11th June 2006.
http://www.mindgamesalbury.com/australiangamesexpo/
The big news about it as far as you two are concerned is that they are holding a Settlers of Catan Tournament. Ah ha, thought that might interest yous! Albury is on the Murray River and about 6 hours drive from Sydney. Zoe, I’m not sure about flights from Stansted to there for your Mum!
Love to yous both,
M
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I want more backgammon stuff . . . and I want regular contributions to Bibafax :-)
Michael
We are so pleased that you are both settling in to life over there so well. It's really interesting to read your reports.
It sure makes us both envious.
The food sounds superb... I can almost feel a Homer Simpson type drool coming on.
Keep up the excellent reports. It sure beats the hell outta buying a newspaper.
best wishes to you both
Chris + Shell
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