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UFC Thailand Open Backgammon Championships return to Pattaya
The second International UFC Thailand Open Backgammon
Championships will return to the Style Restaurant on Jomtien Beach Pattaya,
Goran Hasselquist, tournament director recently announced. The event will
take place from January 9 - 12, 1997.
The field will include some of the best players in Thailand, along with
entrants from America, Europe and the rest of Asia. The tournament will be
organized by the Pattaya Backgammon League under the direction of Asian
Backgammon Champion Mr. Goran Hasselquist.
The event will count as a ranking tournament for the “Goulding World Rating”
which includes ranking of over 5,000 players world-wide.
The UFC Thailand Open Backgammon Championships will include two divisions:
Open Championship for the most skilled players and Intermediate for the less
experienced participants. It will be sponsored by UFC (Universal Food Plc.)
Style Restaurant. Trophies for the winners will be presented by Style
Restaurant. Free instruction and seminars by top players will also be
available.
For additional information and to take part in this event please contact
Fax: (038) 425 189, or Tel: (038) 303 135, 303 136 between 13:30 and 18:30
hrs. Or write to Pattaya Backgammon League, PO Box 37, Jomtien, Chonburi,
20261.
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Blue’s win big in PSC softball
Eddy Henheffer led his Blue team to a big 18 to 6 win
over Alan’s Reds as the Pattaya Softball fun returned to action on Sunday,
December 22 at Bang Kair School in South Pattaya.
Jerry, who recently transferred from Caltex Stars, along with Norman B. and
Kenny T.D. were the hard hitters for the Blues.
Mike B., George D. and Dan H. hit for extra bases on the Reds, but the Reds’
error prone defense contributed to the loss.
The Pattaya Sports Club invites all ball players to come out and play ball.
Players sign-in between 1:30 and 2:00 p.m. every Sunday. Teams are made-up
from those ready to take the field. Cold drinks and hot dogs are available.
The playing field is at Pattaya School No. 7 on Sukhumvit Highway just past
Greenway Driving Range and Caltex gas station.
Splinter Golf Group Results
Stableford competition at Sattahip
Monday, December 23, 1996
Winner A flight: Tony Odlum, 33 Stableford points.
2nd A flight: Ian Pike, 32 points (won on count back from Mike Morris and
Harry Riley.
Winner B flight: Mike Franklyn, 36 Stableford points.
2nd B flight: Harvey, 36 points (lost on count back).
Diana Monthly Medal at Green Valley
Friday, December 27, 1996
Mike Morris put together one of his best rounds ever. His 80 gross, 69 net
won the A flight of the Diana Monthly Medal.
Mike Franklyn, who also had a good day, won the B flight with a gross 93 net
70.
Only 4 players out of 26 were able to break 80.
The four closest to the pin honourees received complimentary green fees from
Green Valley Management. Those who won were; Doug Powell on #7, Gerard
Lambere on #15, and newcomer Mike Parson on #3 and #11.
Winner A flight: Mike Morris, net 69.
2nd A flight: Mike Riley, net 76.
3rd A flight: Tony Stevens, net 81 (on a count back from John Naponic).
Winner B flight: Mike Franklyn, net 70.
2nd B flight: Harvey, net 76.
3rd B flight: Dickie Barbe, net 80.
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PGS Pairs champions
PGS Pairs champions Mike
Parson (left) and Ken Carr (right) receive their trophies from PGS chairman
Peter Johanssen (center).
Rising Sun knocks off undefeated
Cheers
Rising Sun knocked Cheers out of the ranks of the undefeated in week 4 of
the Friday Night Mickey Mouse Darts League. In doing so, Rising Sun has
moved to within one game of the second place Cheers.
Beer Put now remains the only undefeated team in the league and sits atop
the table.
Results from week 4: Rising Sun won the match and the beer leg over Cheers
at home. Mick’s Place won the match but lost the beer leg to Palmer’s Bar on
the road. Beer Put also won the match but lost the beer leg to Pleasure Dome
away.
Nervous Dave from Rising Sun still maintains the lead for the league’s
highest checkout, a 103 he achieved against Mick’s Place in week three.
| Standings after week 4: |
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Won |
Loss |
Beer Leg |
Under 10’s |
| Beer Put |
4 |
0 |
3 |
22 |
| Cheers |
3 |
1 |
1 |
30 |
| Rising Sun |
2 |
2 |
3 |
26 |
| Mick’s Place |
2 |
2 |
1 |
25 |
| Pleasure Dome |
1 |
3 |
2 |
31 |
| Palmer’s Bar |
0 |
4 |
2 |
44 |
Improve your Bridge
by Barrie Kenyon
It is possible in bridge to be too clever by half. As
budding players climb the cards ladder, they learn about the Bath coup,
squeeze play and a whole host of complex strategies. But simplicity is often
the right way ahead.
Happy Harry had just heard the opposite bid most confidently to Seven
Hearts. They had gone through the Blackwood convention of asking for aces
and kings and waited expectantly for a lead. Harry looked at his somewhat
bleak collection and wondered which card to pick. He held;
Spades 6, 4
Hearts 9, 5, 3, 2
Diamond Queen, Jack, 10, 4
Clubs Ace, 8, 2
The obvious lead, thought Harry, was the Club Ace. But surely the opponents
would not have bid a suit grand slam with an Ace missing. One of them must
have a void. So he elected to lead the Diamond Queen, justifying to himself
that this was safe at any rate. Alas, the triumphant declarer soon had all
thirteen tricks before him and rubbed salt in the wound. He told Harry, “If
you had led the Ace of Clubs and then another to your partner’s King, I
would have been two down.” The defense had effectively been bluffed into
making the wrong lead.
The very next hand, Harry heard the opponents bid Three No Trumps. On lead,
he looked at his hand:
Spades Jack, 8, 7
Hearts 4, 3, 2
Diamonds 9, 8
Clubs Ace, King, Jack, 7, 2
Quite rightly, Harry decided to lead a Club. But which one? Having no
certain entry outside the suit, he reasoned that a small Club would allow
the declarer to make one trick in the suit. Then, Harry hoped that his
partner would take a trick in an outside suit, later in the play, and lead
back a Club producing disaster for the declarer. So he led the Club Seven
which the declarer took with the Queen as expected. Declarer then cashed a
further eight tricks making his three no trumps. If only Harry had led the
Ace and King of Clubs, declarer’s doubleton Queen would have dropped and the
first five tricks would have gone to the defense. Again, declarer had
bluffed because he did not have a club stop in the first place.
Harry might have known better. His opponent as declarer was a sixteen year
old schoolboy who had just failed his math’s exam.
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Pattaya Golf Society celebrates holidays
Many happy faces celebrated
the holiday season in the PGS party.
The Pattaya Golf Society celebrated the holidays with
their annual party at First House Hotel, Soi Buakoa, on Monday, December 23.
About 45 guests turned out for the Ule-tide spirits.
George Meigh was awarded Pattaya Golf Society “Player of the Year” for 1996,
and received a handsome trophy for his accomplishment.
The Pattaya Golf Society returns to kick off the first season of 1997 with a
Stableford competition at Siam Country Club on the 7th of January. All
golfers are welcome to join the
fun.
Cheers say Bottoms Up
“On which American city’s streets was the game of
monopoly originally based?” “What was the name of the African lodger in
the series Rising Damp?”
In the pre Christmas Sunday Quiz, Cheers produced an army of boozers and
academics (usually both) to pull away from their nearest rivals by nine
marks. Motorcycle taxi drivers were delighted as triumphant Cheers
customers, mostly sporting Father Christmas hats, offered 500 baht tips
to be ferried to the next street. Bar owner Colin said he had seen
nothing like it for seven days.
Cheers managed a top score of 73% in what proved to be the toughest
round of the season so far. No team, for example, managed to find the
answer to the question “Who put Sweeny Todd’s victims into her pies?” To
judge from the large pile of check-bins in most bars playing home
matches, gin and tonics do not help in remembering world currencies or
the name of the Venerable Bede. One bar had Venereal.
But it was all good fun and the occasional cock-up by the question
setters was taken with equanimity. Pleasure Dome and Mick’s Place are
chasing Cheers hard, and Palmer’s is coming up on the rails. To judge
from attendance’s at the weekly trivial pursuits bouts, Pattaya has had
a cracking Christmas and a bubbling New Year. The alliance of Brits,
Americans and Aussies seems to have survived world war two.
| Total Scores to date: |
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Points |
| Cheers |
476 |
| Pleasure Dome |
467 |
| Mick’s Place |
465 |
| Palmer’s |
459 |
| Rising Sun |
428 |
| Britannia |
412 |
| Bob’s Bar |
399 |
| Wild Chicken |
320 |
The answer to the above questions are “Atlantic
City”, “Philip” and “Mrs. Lovett”.
The public is invited to join the fun every Sunday night.
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