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Posted By: Jake Jacobs
Date: Wednesday, 23 September 2009, at 11:42 p.m.

In Response To: Japan Open (Stick)

Hi Stick:

Attendance in the beginner and intermediate fields was up quite a bit, I'm told. The Championship was about the same as last year. But the Open was down from 46 to 41. Can you believe some idiots chose Prague over Tokyo?

The gaijin contingent this year consisted of me, Don Thompson (getting better all the time), Gabe Davis (who is running the BG club in Pattaya), Robin Swaffield, the Hong Kong veteran, and a newcomer named Rich Arnold, a Dutchman who lives in K.L.

Four of the biggest names in Japanese backgammon were also missing: Michy and Mochy were in Prague; Abe and Yazawa were busy planning their wedding. Otherwise, like Don, the Japanese get better every year.

By the way, in his speech last night (there was, as Sam mentioned elsewhere, a party for Mochy in Ginza) Mochy credited his high school chums for getting him in the game. Kaneko speculated that their high school in Hiroo may have been the best backgammon high school (new category) as he, Mochy, and Yazawa all ettended it. I nominated Susquehanna as the "best BG Kaisha." (Company, for you gaijin.) At one time Howard Ring, Neil Kazaross, David Wells, and Rick Lloyd worked together, and that was just the Chicago office. (And Howard tried several times to recruit me, but having a job seemed too much like work.)

Below is the Othello link, as supplied to me yesterday by the man himself.

Best,

Jake

Hi. this is othello quiz 2009 url. http://park15.wakwak.com/~itikawa/fes2009quiz.html average 3.4.

Messages In This Thread

• Japan Open
  Jake Jacobs -- Wednesday, 23 September 2009, at 2:22 a.m.
  • Japan Open
    Christian Munk-Christensen -- Wednesday, 23 September 2009, at 6:55 a.m.
  • Japan Open
    Stick -- Wednesday, 23 September 2009, at 1:45 p.m.
    • Japan Open
      Jake Jacobs -- Wednesday, 23 September 2009, at 11:42 p.m.
      • Japan Open
        Keene -- Thursday, 24 September 2009, at 2:26 p.m.
        • Japan Open
          othello -- Wednesday, 21 October 2009, at 4:28 a.m.
          • Enquiring minds want to know
            Chuck Bower -- Wednesday, 21 October 2009, at 5:12 p.m.
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              Sam Pottle -- Friday, 23 October 2009, at 10:57 a.m.
          • Japan Open - Othello Quiz 2009
            Daniel Murphy -- Wednesday, 21 October 2009, at 8:21 p.m.
  • Japan Open
    Phil Simborg -- Wednesday, 23 September 2009, at 1:48 p.m.
  • Why is the "Othello quiz" called the "Othello quiz"? *NM* *NM*
    Timothy Chow -- Saturday, 24 October 2009, at 3:50 p.m.
    • Why is the "Othello quiz" called the "Othello quiz"?
      Klaus Evers -- Saturday, 24 October 2009, at 4:56 p.m.
      • Why is the "Othello quiz" called the "Othello quiz"?
        Joe Russell -- Saturday, 24 October 2009, at 5:51 p.m.
      • Othello does exist
        mamabear -- Sunday, 25 October 2009, at 1:06 p.m.