[gordontd]

We're coming towards the end of the Young Chelsea Marathon. 32 pairs are playing 93 boards in under twelve hours, with an £800 prize for the winners. Currently in the lead is dburn, followed by vampyr & lamford. Other forum members playing include lanor fow, gnasher (last time's winner), and campboy.

[lalldonn]

Nice, that sounds like a really fun event. I wish I had something like that in my area to play in.

[gordontd]

lalldonn, on 2012-October-13, 14:40, said:

Nice, that sounds like a really fun event. I wish I had something like that in my area to play in.

Maybe you should organise it?

Update: lamford & vampyr have now overtaken dburn & partner, but it's very close at the top. gnasher is coming up a bit too, but probably has too far to go.

[Fluffy]

what is the scoring? what is the average age of the players?

[lalldonn]

gordontd, on 2012-October-13, 14:48, said:

Maybe you should organise it?

LOL!!! Obviously you haven't met me

[gordontd]

Fluffy, on 2012-October-13, 15:44, said:

what is the scoring? what is the average age of the players?

Matchpoints. The youngest player was nine, the oldest probably in their seventies, average probably low forties. When we had a twenty-four hour one about five years ago, the oldest player was nearly ninety.

[gordontd]

gordontd, on 2012-October-13, 14:48, said:

Update: lamford & vampyr have now overtaken dburn & partner, but it's very close at the top. gnasher is coming up a bit too, but probably has too far to go.

Well there was an exciting finish indeed, and Heather Dhondy & Brian Callaghan came from behind to beat both of them: dburn (with Nick Sandqvist) came second, and vampyr & lamford third.

[PhilKing]

gordontd, on 2012-October-13, 16:20, said:

average probably low forties.

Can I buy?

[gnasher]

I thought the format was excellent. It was even better than the traditional 24-hour version.

[Vampyr]

gnasher, on 2012-October-14, 03:07, said:

I thought the format was excellent. It was even better than the traditional 24-hour version.

It was a good format. When I was in Posnan a few years ago, it took the better part of eleven hours to get through 50 boards. It was absolutely exhausting. Playing 93 boards in twelve hours is much less tiring. That said, I made an error or poor decision in each of the last 4-board rounds, and, well... see above

Cons: no 5am tomato soup.

[gnasher]

I see that the YC is organising another of these, on 6th April 2013. Play will run from 11am to 11pm, with each pair playing about 80-90 boards.

[Fluffy]

I guess Young Chelsea is in London. Sadly I see no plane that goes away from London after 9 pm, it means I'd have to stay at the airport for 6 hours or so completelly exhausted, or find a hotel increasing the expenses, but I wanna try one of these at least once.

[Zelandakh]

Fluffy, on 2013-March-04, 18:19, said:

I guess Young Chelsea is in London. Sadly I see no plane that goes away from London after 9 pm, it means I'd have to stay at the airport for 6 hours or so completelly exhausted, or find a hotel increasing the expenses, but I wanna try one of these at least once.

On the other hand, the flight is only €92 and perhaps you can find a contact in London and arrange something with them for the intervening hours.

[Fluffy]

a friend of mine will jus thappen to be on London that weekend to visit a friend or something, he said he would look for it, maybe we play.

[gnasher]

Fluffy, on 2013-March-06, 13:47, said:

a friend of mine will jus thappen to be on London that weekend to visit a friend or something, he said he would look for it, maybe we play.

If you do play, you have to enter in advance. You can't just turn up and play, because they have to work out the movement beforehand.