Held at the ACBS Clubrooms : 12 December 2010

Report by Malcolm Beehre :
The last tournament of the year.  It’s amazing how, when players play in a pairs tournament they think they need to discuss shots that don’t need discussing, all on the pretext that they somehow need to play for their partner instead of playing their own game.  A simple way to get out of this train of thought is to imagine you are playing a game of singles with the player following you.  A couple of very long matches threw the timetable out.  Both went to five frames, taking one hour and ten minutes, and one hour respectively. Continue reading »

Held at the ACBS Clubrooms : 20-21 November 2010

Report by Malcolm Beehre:
This was the last ranking tournament for the year for the ABSA, and the last ranking tournament for our players going to the World Champs in Syria, early December.  First round upset was Danny Estocapio beating Eldon Lai.  Estocapio went on to be the runner-up in his section, only losing to Wyn Belmont 2/1. Continue reading »

Held at the ACBS Clubrooms : 25 October 2010
Report by Malcolm Beehre

There were some very talented youngsters in this tournament thanks to Wayne Belmont’s coaching efforts with the six players in the field that he’s been training; the youngest at only 11 years old

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Held at the ACBS Clubrooms : 24 October 2010
Report by Malcolm Beehre

With two players not turning up, this left a field of 18 players, 16 of which qualified for post-section play. There were four first-timers to tournament play and three of those qualified for the next round and they all performed well, with Josh Tate beating Cliff Keach 2/0, Taniela Filipo lost to Faz Powell 2/1 and Magnosh Pagdiwalla beat Louis Chand 2/0. Continue reading »

Held at the ACBS Clubrooms : 24-26 September 2010 (hosted by the APA) Continue reading »

Held at the Howick Club : 09-10 October 2010 Continue reading »

Held at the Manurewa Cosmopolitan Club : 16-17 October 2010
Report by Malcolm Beehre

A field of 9 played for the Montgomery trophy and all qualified for Post-Section play, their positions being determined by their performance during section play with the 8^th and 9^th qualifiers playing off to see who went through to the quarter-finals. Continue reading »

Held at the Manurewa Cosmopolitan Club 16-17 October 2010 (hosted by the ABSA): 
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Held at the ACBS Clubrooms : 04-05 September 2010
Report by Malcolm Beehre

This was the largest field we’ve had  event for a number of years, with 43 men and 13 women.  This did mean that there were quite a few sections with different numbers of players in them which also meant a lot of calculation had to be done because there were 32 qualifiers in the men’s section and 8 in the women’s. Continue reading »

2010 League Mini Tournament results  Continue reading »