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Unplayed games in the Open:
James Robinson forfeit win vs. Phil Makepeace (whose message about withdrawing took a side trip, but we got it now)
Liam Tiernan and Niall Seymour got to one game each in their match before technical difficulties intervened, so that match is a draw.

Notes:

In the Open, this is week 5 of 6, so everyone has two matches left to go.

In the U1000, this is the last normal week -- if you have any missing games now is the time. Next week will be the finals for everyone within one match point of the leader.

In the U1200, this is also the last normal week -- next week you will play your counterpart in the other pool in a placement match. Again, any missing games need to be done by this week.

Meanwhile the U1400 has tied itself in a great big knot. Right now there are five players in This Pool with 4 wins and three players with three wins, so I haven't yet tried to work out all the tiebreaker scenarios. The That Pool is only slightly better off; no matter what happens with the game for this week, there will be one person clear winner at four wins, one person clear last at two wins, and everybody else at three wins. This tiebreaker schedule is posted on the Week 5 page for U1400.

U1400:

Jordan F 69 - 95 Jim Bentley

Open Tournament:

James Robinson 0 - 2 Jon O'Neill

James Robinson 78 - 90 Jon O'Neill
Jon O'Neill 102 - 85 James Robinson

2 brilliant games with Jono here. After taking an early lead in the first one, my 6 small gamble failed to pay off and eventually I capitulated and Jono ran out the easy victor.

In the 2nd game, after an even opening and was stuck between AEGISES and ASSEGAI, and surprise, surprise, I went for the illegal one, but after levelling with FIBRED, Jono took the late lead from the last numbers, before just pipping me to DEFERENCE at the conundrum.

The Open:
Liam Tiernan 74-91 Ian Volante

Liam 101-69 Ian

Liam 82-68 Ian

Right down to the wire with the match being decided on a crucial.

Edward McCullagh 2-0 Marcus Hares

Edward McCullagh 115 - 105 Marcus Hares

Marcus Hares 80 - 106 Edward McCullagh

Don't think Marcus was at his best tonight - he's been destroying me on Apterous for the past month!

Open matches

James Doohan 81-80 Nick Wainwright
James Doohan 74-114 Nick Wainwright
James Doohan 75-107 Nick Wainwright

Stole the first one, but got thoroughly hammered in the next two by the superior player, well played Nick

Open: Kirk Bevins 2-0 Innis Carson

Kirk 120-112 Innis

A great contest in the first match, with two nines each and there never being more than 6 points separating us until the final round, in which Kirk beat me to the deceptively tricky conundrum.

Kirk 131-98 Innis

He'd warmed up now. We remained level for the first few rounds, until Kirk pulled ahead in R5 by solving a difficult 6-small numbers game, and never looked back from that point on. I did my best to cling on, but he created no opportunities for a comeback, and ultimately scored a max game. Far too good.

Very well played mate, cheers for the games.

Open Dinos 2 - 1 Dale:

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=277496

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=277524

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=277563


Some top quality games, my numbers in the final game excluded. Well played Dinos, cheers for the games.

Open:

Stuart Arnot 2 - 0 Henry Meier

Henry Meier 104 - 127 Stuart Arnot
Henry Meier 85 - 95 Stuart Arnot

Two good games. Would have equalled my best score in the first, had I not chickened out on AIRDROMES. Henry was very unlucky to outbuzz me on the crucial conundrum in the second game, because I would have made the same mistake as him had I got there first.

Open Week 5 result:-

Lee Simmonds 2-0 Jordan F

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 5516588285
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 7231372273

Late result from U1400 week 3

Lee Simmonds 1-0 Andy Wilson
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 0148626100

Late result from U1200 week 4

Lee Simmonds 2-0 Andy Wilson
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 2083518034
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 8061358746

Week 5 Open. Scott Gillies 2 - 1 Jim Bentley

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 5222406770
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 4604846763
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 9036022964

3 good quality games, there and i managed to scrape through.

U1400 Week 1 match

Finally Dan and I managed to get together!!

Basically, I was crap and Dan was very good.

Karen Pearson 82 - 97 Dan Seasmith

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 7044695641

U1400 result:

Dan Seasmith 97-82 Karen Pearson

U1200

Matt 2 - 1 Lee

78 - 87 to Lee - close game, quick crucial conundrum for Lee.
87 - 59 to me - apart from misreading R1 (was too fucking excited to spot a cool word like NOVENAS) first half of the game was the best I've played in months, enough to secure the win despite returning to normal form in 2nd half
88 - 76 to me - spotted the early 9, Lee pegged me back all the way after that and probably would have won a 20 round game

Open


Karen Pearson 2 - 1 Dave Mattingly

Dave 79 - 74 Karen
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=278381

Dave - 68 - 71 Karen
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=278389

Dave 57 - 88 Karen
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=278397

The first to games were extremely close. Dave took the first on a crucial conundrum and I took the second in similar, but much jammier, fashion. It got to about 25 seconds and I decided I may as well input the only word I could make from the letters even though it was clearly nonsense. Luckily for me, however, it appears that HINDBRAIN is a real word! Sorry Dave!!

And a couple of disallowed words did for Dave in the end in the deciding game.

Very enjoyable and close match!

In the open, Hugh Binnie 2 - 1 Kai Laddiman. Three closely fought games, all coming down to crucial conundrums:

Hugh Binnie 88 - 85 Kai Laddiman
Kai Laddiman 73 - 58 Hugh Binnie
Kai Laddiman 94 -105 Hugh Binnie

U1400 result:

Dan Seasmith 77-81 Adam Gillard

U1400 match

James Doohan 94 - 75 Niall Seymour

Open games -

James Hurrell 115-89 Richard Priest
James Hurrell 98-63 Richard Priest

Very disappointed with how I played but James was a worthy winner.Well done.

Rich Priest wrote:Open games -

James Hurrell 115-89 Richard Priest
James Hurrell 98-63 Richard Priest

Very disappointed with how I played but James was a worthy winner.Well done.

Unlucky Richard, yes you've played much better against me in the past and as you suggested in the game, I thought rustiness on my part through being away would cost me.

Thanks for the games.

U1000

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=278942 89 - 50
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=278932 101 - 71

Andy Wilson 2 - 0 Andrew Herbertson

I think there's an unreported game between Michael Wallace and I from a way back in the u1400 too,

A convincing 105 - 59 to Michael

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=272686

and while i'm down there, Ian Dent beat me 70 - 54 in our week 2 game which we managed to get round to the other night

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=278350

Oliver Garner 2 - 1 Ryan Taylor

Oliver Garner 105-115 Ryan Taylor

Oliver Garner 118-106 Ryan Taylor

Oliver Garner 96-85 Ryan Taylor

3 good games particularly the first 2 which were both decided on a crucial conundrum, the first on a tie breaker. Definitely the best player won, shame I couldn't force a crucial in the decider but I simply wasn't good enough. Well played to Ghana!

Niall Seymour 79-69 Tom Rowell

u1400

U1000

Two very close games, James was unlucky.

James Leroux 87 - 95 Howard Somerset
James Leroux 72 - 98 Howard Somerset

2 - 0 to me

In the open-

Ben Wilson 107-83 David O'Donnell

Fueled by news that Doddy had only just woken up and had several beers sat next to him, I ploughed straight into it, a slip-up in the second numbers being the only major blip in a solid 13-maxer.

David O'Donnell 108-88 Ben Wilson

Then things go a little wrong in game 2. Bottling SPORTIF and wrongly risking SONDAGE gives the Irishman a good lead, I nick some points back from the second numbers before going batshit insane, mis-remembering how you spell KALUMPIT (which is scrabble-only anyway) and thinking that as there's no 8 from AEINNRTU it follows there's no 9 from AEINNRSTU results in me getting thoroughly arsed-whipped.

David O'Donnell 64-85 Ben Wilson

Fortunately the form returns just when it's most needed (rounds 7 and 8) and despite a few brainless moments (rounds 10 and 11) and a scary final numbers game, I just about wrap things up to take it 2-1.

Cheers David, good luck with your remaining games.

Open Week 5

Matt Bayfield 88 - 82 Matthew Tasssier
Matthew Tassier 68 - 79 Matt Bayfield

This was the apterous equivalent of darts players faffing around repeatedly missing their doubles, and I count myself very lucky to have scraped through. In game 1, I misclicked a numbers game and lost a further 15 points by not risking valid words. In game 2, Matthew had a 23 point lead after round 8 but then had a total nightmare of things, including a numbers misclick of his own. Fortunately I got both crucial conundrums, although I wasn't sure that either solution was a real word.

Our round 6 opponents should be aware that we can both play rather better than that.

U1200 Wk 5 Result

Jeff Clayton 2 - 0 John Gillies

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 1848180150
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 3537745883

Jeff was just too good for me and thoroughly deserved his win. The games were very enjoyable, and he seemed like a nice guy till he picked 6 small

Well played Jeff, and thanks.

Andy Wilson 104 - 76 Liam Tiernan - U1400

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=279836

Unlucky Liam. This somewhat redeems my campaign in which I haven't won a game since my opener.

Me vs Josh.

Josh got unlucky on the second numbers otherwise the game would have been completely different.

Josh Hurst 73 - 91 Lloyd Pettet

U1400 tie break thing(?) Lee Simmonds 83 - 96 Michael Wallace

Some nasty selections in this one, and another crucial, which I managed to unscramble after giving up on the phoney -NESS slightly before Lee did.

Open:

Tom Rowell 73 - 76 Simon Myers
Tom Rowell 68 - 98 Simon Myers

U1200:

Miriam Nussbaum 2-0 Jordan F (92-60, 75-56)

Open:

Miriam Nussbaum 2-0 Andrew Herbertson (106-53, 95-85 with 2 tiebreakers)

Under 1200
Peter Lee 2 Dave Mattingly 1

http://217.36.210.230/viewgame.php?game=282899 Peter wins 85-84
http://217.36.210.230/viewgame.php?game=282886 Dave wins 82-81
http://217.36.210.230/viewgame.php?game=282880 Peter wins 101-82