Wednesday February 28th 2024

26 players battled tonight.

Gary Stavrou was the drawn jackpot and, although winning all his matches, was pipped at the post by Matt Bridges.

FINAL	TOT
R3 RANKING	PTS
Matt Bridges	316
Gary Stavrou	311
Peter Voulgaris	308
Mackenzie Little	304
Angelo Voulgaris	209
Jeremy Whitelaw	207
Antonio Andolfo	206
Carol Wakelin	205
Sean Ghodsi	203
Kee Yio Wan	202
Dennis Mercovich	199
Nick Macoun	199
Peter Boylan	101
Amir Tehrani	100
David Sheipouri	99
Jim Bean	99
John Symon	98
Breck McCormack	97
Rafael Chattah	95
Jenny Saunders	94
Mohammad Nejati	94
Mahnaz Rostami	92
Andrew Mowbray	92
Mozhgan Miveh	-8
Vazgen Panosian	-11
Michael Raptis	-11

Wednesday February 21st

 An excellent field of 28 players tonight.

Our consistently top player and librarian, David Reitzin, will be away on medical leave for a few weeks and we wish him a speedy recovery from his elective surgery.

Thanks to Andrew Mowbray who has agreed to assume librarian duties in David's absence.

Sean Ghodsi was the drawn jackpot but missed out.

FINAL	TOT
R3 RANKING	PTS
Matt Bridges	317
Michel Gerges	314
Mackenzie Little	309
Jim Bean	308
Gary Stavrou	207
Andrew Mowbray	206
Aram Amirghan	205
Antonio Andolfo	204
Vazgen Panosian	204
John Symon	203
Rafael Chattah	202
Carol Wakelin	200
Michael Raptis	199
Mahnaz Rostami	198
Kee Yio Wan	101
Mohammad Nejati	101
Robbie Baudish	99
Jenny Saunders	98
Dilhun Akpinar	98
Peter Voulgaris	97
Dennis Mercovich	96
Sean Ghodsi	93
Andrew Scarf	93
Joseph El Alam	89
Amir Tehrani	-6
Angelo Voulgaris	-11
Ben Anderson	-11
Nick Macoun	-13

Ben and Vazgen in foreground, KeeYio and Michel in background

Jim and Andrew in foreground, Nick and Peter in background

Antonio and Sean in foreground, Robbie and Mohammad in background

Matt and Rafael in foreground, Aram and Carol in background

Wednesday February 14th 2024

 20 players tonight.

Mohammad was the drawn Jackpot but missed out.

FINAL	TOT
R3 RANKING	PTS
Sean Ghodsi	317
Jim Bean	309
Dennis Mercovich	211
Aram Amirghan	206
Mackenzie Little	205
Dilhun Akpinar	202
Kee Yio Wan	201
Carol Wakelin	199
Rafael Chattah	198
Antonio Andolfo	197
Gary Stavrou	101
Andrew Mowbray	99
Mahnaz Rostami	95
Jenny Saunders	93
Michael Raptis	92
Mohammad Nejati	-7
Nick Macoun	-9
Vazgen Panosian	-13

Antonio playing on his lovely Italian board

Nick not happy with his score against Andrew

Mohammad emphasising to Kee Yio that the match is over

Battle of the ladies: Carol and Mahnaz

 We had 25 players tonight and welcomed back Antonio Andolfo from a long sojourn in Italy.

Mahnaz drew the jackpot but didn't convert.

FINAL	TOT
R3 RANKING	PTS
Kee Yio Wan	314
James Lyons	310
Sean Ghodsi	307
Jeremy Whitelaw	210
Andrew Scarf	209
Aram Amirghan	209
Pejman Golshahi	206
Jenny Saunders	205
Michael Raptis	203
Mahnaz Rostami	201
Ben Anderson	200
Gary Stavrou	200
Jim Bean	196
Matt Bridges	103
Rafael Chattah	99
Andrew Mowbray	96
Adam Makda	96
Mackenzie Little	95
Dennis Mercovich	94
Vazgen Panosian	94
Antonio Andolfo	93
Nick Macoun	91
Carol Wakelin	89
Robbie Baudish	-9
Malcolm Stradwick	-14

Jenny and Robbie playing on a traditional board

Gary and Matt

Kee Yio playing a "reflective" Rafael

Gary celebrates a backgammon against Adam who is saying "he's the man!"

Jeremy and Sean

Wednesday January 31st 2024

 22 warriors locked horns tonight with Jim Bean proving to be the horniest (don't even go there!)

Dilhun was tonight's unsuccessful jackpotee.

FINAL	TOT
R3 RANKING	PTS
Jim Bean	314
Adam Makda	313
Aram Amirghan	213
Dennis Mercovich	207
Mahnaz Rostami	206
Ben Anderson	206
Gary Stavrou	205
Carol Wakelin	203
Jenny Saunders	201
Kee Yio Wan	199
Peter Voulgaris	196
Dilhun Akpinar	195
Nick Macoun	101
Rafael Chattah	98
Robbie Baudish	97
Mackenzie Little	96
Vazgen Panosian	95
David Reitzin	92
Michael Raptis	90
Sean Ghodsi	-4
Andrew Mowbray	-10
Mohammad Nejati	-13

TD Gary and newish player Robbie Baudish

Raf appears to be giving Dennis elevated blood pressure and a headache

David looks on approvingly as Mahnaz makes her move

The ladies are trouncing the men tonight

In spite of being ahead Mackenzie still seems to be niggled by something.

"I can't see what you are so happy about" muses Aram while Nick blissfully rolls