NSPCC #BigBoardGameDay

Well after an earlier problem with the hall that we were going to use we are now back up and running.
So, our NSPCC #BigBoardGameDay will be on the 18th June at St Giles-on-the-heath village hall. 10am to 5pm

 

If you love board games then come along and bring your favourite game.

There will be tea, coffee and cake on sale to keep your inner gamer nourished..

There will also be a raffle with some great prizes.
FREE entry (Donations appreciated)

Any board game goes. Bring along your favourite game to play or teach others. Monopoly, Scrabble, Chess , Backgammon, Cleudo, Battleships the list is endless. 

Or just come along to learn a new one..

Ample Free Parking

Our Birthday...

Looking at the calendar the other day and I realised that "Lansongammon" was one year old in April.

This has been an interesting year.

So far.
We started the club and found a venue.
Moved venue.
Meet every week.
Set up a club website
Club Facebook page, Twitter feed and email.
Obtained a grant from the UKBGF
We have been mentioned in our local newspaper.
Printed advertising fliers and cards
We have a regular club mini tournament at the end of each month.
And most importantly have several regular members.


Things to come.
Club library
Lansongammon league (Page set up we just need more members)
Advertising campaign to find more members.
NSPCC Big Board Game Day (June 2016)

ONWARDS AND UPWARDS

Your Play Please

Yesterday I was down the pub playing some games and came across this move.
You might think to yourself, whats so interesting about that position, but I was interested to find out what the correct  move was. Any comments appreciated.



                                        White to play 5-5
                                        I moved 2 x 6 to 1 (Take).... Then bear 2 off the 5
                                        Was this right?
                                        My first thought was to bear all 5 from the 5 point.
                                                      (Then changed my mind)

 

Big Board Game Day 2016

 I was listening to the radio the other day and there was an advert for the upcoming NSPCC event.                                 


                                                "Big Board Game Day"

I sent off for their information pack and decided to go for it.

The event is going to be held on 27th May. However due to other commitments that date is a no go. So as it says in their info pack you can move the date to suit yourselves.
Therefore we will be holding it sometime during the beginning of June.
I say sometime as we do not have a venue yet.

A Just Giving page has been set up in advance and I am starting to get the word out there. I figure that even though we dont have a venue yet it can't hurt to advertise..
For up to date information either come back here or visit our website.. HERE 


Meanwile why not go to our JUSTGIVING Page to donate. It doesn't have to be loads of cash even £1.00 will make a difference.
We are hoping to raise £250.00 before and during the event.

 

 CLICK HERE .... DONATE HERE.

March Mini Tourny

Tonight we held our March mini tournament.

Four players attended playing short games to three points.
The tournament was won by Lynne Norris with Reuben Oliver a close second.

As mentioned in previous posts we are now meeting on a Tuesday evening, Same venue, the Pint & Post
st Giles on the heath.

 For further details see our website
 

Its been a while

It's been a day or two since my last post so I thought I had better check in.

Backgammon seems to have slowed to a crawl, mainly due to a lack of members and work commitments.

  
Also we have now change our meetings from every week to every other week. This is due to the pub having their quiz night on Wednesdays.

Hoping that when the clocks change a few more members will appear.

On a personal note my GRIDGAMMON UKBGF tournament is not going well.. Apart from losing my first game I am having problems meeting up with opponents online...Mainly my fault I might add.

So to finish, a reminder that meetings are now every other week..Please see our website or get in touch before you travel to avoid a wasted journey.

Meeting changes.

We are changing our meeting day.

Instead of meeting every week we will now meet every other week at the Pint & Post.
Everything else stays the same.
To be sure, pop along to our website before you travel. It is updated regularly so will give up to date info on meeting dates.
If you still want to double check feel free to message me to confirm.

Backgammon is a great game that can be taught very quickly and once learnt will keep you playing and trying to improve your game forever.

Next meeting will be 2nd March at the "Pint & Post" at 19:30.

 Join us for a game.
The pub serves some great food as well as the all important drinks to keep you going.

February tourny

At yesterdays meeting at the "Pint and Post" we held our monthly mini tournament.The meeting was attended by seven players, not all participating in the tourny but all having a good evening.

We had one very new player who picked up the game very quickly and rumor has it that she spent the following morning playing Backgammon with her grandson. (Hooked i think)

The tournament was won by Alex Shaw with Reuben Oliver hot on her heels.

Its the school holidays so we had a couple of extra players in the shape of Poppy and Reuben.

Poppy still picking it up well with Reuben, as you can see from the results above, learning to fast.

And NO that's not Poppy's pint of bitter..

Unfortunately, due to the pubs quiz night and several other things that seem to all be happening on Wednesday  next weeks meeting has been cancelled. (sorry)


If you can play or fancy learning then why not come along to our next meeting.
Check our website for details HERE 
or get in touch via the website... See you there..

We are in the papers...

                                            Most Improved Player 2015


               Reuben, one of our younger members has had his picture in the paper.. 

A nice piece in this weeks Cornish and Devon post featuring Reuben who was presented with a "Most Improved Player" Certificate at our last mini tournament.

 Due to the pub changing the day that it holds its quiz night we are moving the date of our end of month tournament forward to next Wednesday 17th Feb.

This has turned out be be beneficial to us as the schools are on holiday so some of our younger members may be able to attend.

UKOPEN 2016

This week saw the UKBGF open registration for the UKOPEN 2016.

Ricoh Arena Coventry

This year we will be attending with two and possibly three members. One in the Advanced flight and the other two in the Swiss Beginners.

I have sent off the required email for two entrants but I'm waiting on confirmation from the third.

Hotels yet to be booked, but we stayed in a great Premier inn last year so the same could be on the cards.

Watch this space for a full report of our exploits as well as plenty of pictures.


Also, can someone pop over to the Lansongammon website and let me know in the comments below if the Newsletter sign up form is visible on the front page..I have been having some problems with this of late..Thanks in advance,,

  

Newsletter

Our website now has a sign up form to receive our newsletter. 

 

At present this is only planned to be produced once a month, so you won't be snowed under with newsletters in your mail box.

Why not pop along to the site and sign up.. It takes seconds.

If you are not local to us or live in the middle of nowhere don't worry, sign up and keep track of what's going on here in sunny Cornwall. 

                                                      (Middle of nowhere)

Next weeks Backgammon is at the Pint & Post, st Giles.....19:30.. see our website for details or directions...All welcome.  

 

                                                            (Pint & Post)

Most Improved Player 2015

Due to the storms tonight's mini tournament at the Pint & Post was a little short of players. However a good night was had by all with many games played.

The end of month mini tournament for January was won by myself with Lauren Oliver coming a close second.
All the results have been uploaded to the UKBGF website as well as the challonge site.

For full results go to our web site and click the tournament tab. Web Site

At the end of the evening one of our youngest players was awarded a certificate for the
 "Most Improved Player 2015" 

Less than a year ago Reuben Oliver did not know how to play the game.
Now, when playing him you have to keep your wits about you.

Reuben, proudly displaying his certificate and prize of a Star Wars stationary set.



Keep up the practice Reuben...

Day change....

Quick post to let everyone know that this weeks meet has been  moved to Tuesday the 26th due to the pub having their quiz night.

We will be staging our clubs mini tournament on that day but if you want to come along for a game you will be more than welcome.

Back to normal

Last week saw one of our few unavoidable Lansongammon cancelations.
This Wednesday all is back to normal with our usual meet at the Pint & Post st Giles

Kick off is 19:30 with our hosts selling good beer and even better food.

Format is very informal with one or three point games being played. 

Next week is our end of month mini tournament.

Games to three points, to be added to our UKBGF  ratings page.

See you there....

Online Championship

Just before Christmas I had an email from the UKBGF looking for entrants to take part in their new  1st UK championship to start in January 2016.

Email sent and I'm ready to go.. 

I can't imagine that I will get far but with some lucky dice behind me you never know.

It will be  round-robins style, 6-8 players all playing 11 point matches.

Deadline for completion is the end of March.

The top 2 from each round-robin, plus best-losers to make an even draw with no byes, progress to the second phase, which is a  knockout, the deadlines for each round being at two-week intervals. 

Everything should be done and dusted by the UKopen in May ready for prize giving. 

Next Lansongammon  meeting will be next Wednesday 13th January at the Pint & Post, St Giles-On-The-Heath, Launceston.     19:30 ish start     ...   21:30 ish finish.

If you have never played before, come along for a game. Its very easy to pick up... No need to bring a board.

All we ask is that you buy a drink or two at the bar.. They even do coffee.

Backgammon Sacking.

It happened way back in 2012, but I have only just seen it online. Entire police team sacked for playing Backgammon.
Amongst other things.

Read the whole story HERE

Lansongammon Forum

It's been up for a while now but if you still have
not found it...
 

 It's HERE

Why not pop along and say, ask, discuss something.

Nackgammon at the Pint & Post.

Another good night down at the Pint & Post.

Lynne and Alex finished their 3 point match from last week with Alex winning 3-2. Then followed several friendly 1 pointers washed down with copious amounts of Holsworthy ales,  Muck and Straw, chips and onion rings.
Later in the evening we decided to play a few games of NackGammon.

 
This was our first attempt at this variation of the game and I think we will be playing it again. It does add an extra something to the game play.
Next meeting Wednesday 13th January. Usual place, usual time. Details Here

New posters have been printed to put up around Launceston to try to gain new members. Also a certificate has been produced to present to our "Most improved player" for 2015. (Who could it be) Watch this space for details, pictures etc.

Happy new year

 

This Wednesdays meeting on the 30th Dec will be a short meeting due to the pubs Christmas quiz night.
We will be playing for only an hour from 19:30--20:30.

I have loaded a tournament page to the website mainly for our end of month mini tournaments. It also contains a link to the Challonge website where you can view past results.

Starting in January I am going to try to reinstate the Lansongammon league. The web page is now back up and running with a link to the League Republic website.
Everything starts on 1st January with the first season finishing on 25th March. Pop along to the website and take a look. HERE

And last but not least  HAPPY NEW YEAR

End of year tourny

A very good evening had by all last night down at the Pint & Post.

For the end of the year, just before Christmas meeting we had a mini tournament.
It was the ideal time as a few more people were able to come due to the school holidays. (No bedtime and mothers not stressed)

 
We were limited on time so played 3 point games finishing right on time just before our usual stagger home time.  All the results have now been uploaded to the UKBGF website for all to see.

After several good games the winner of the first Lansongammon tourny was Lynne Norris. Well played Lynne.

The next mini tournament will be held on the last Wednesday in January.. See you there...