Alexandrina Results for 14 August 2019

This day we had five and a half tables and for the first time we used a Switch Rover 5 Rounds of 6 Boards movement.  In this the Rover pair starts by bumping Table 1 N-S for the first 3 boards then switches to E-W and plays the next 3 boards against N-S. Then, for the next round, skips a table and repeats and so on ending up at Table 4 for the final round. If the session is complete the the rover pair play 30 boards and everyone else plays 27 boards.

But here's the rub: 6 boards at 7 minutes gives us a 42 minute round and on this particular dark and stormy late afternoon the director wanted people (some with 50km country road drives) on their way by 4:30. So he cut the last round. Thus, 3 pairs played 24 boards and 8 pairs played 21 boards.

The Scorer went home (a 2 minute drive with street lighting) believing his scoring program would let him enter  anything he wanted. But no ... the scoring program would not allow a switch from N-S to E-W in the middle of a round. So Scorer handballed the scoring to the movement perpetrators and went to bed. The perpetrators (we do thank them for introducing the movement to us) quickly knocked out the result and emailed it back to the Scorer who subsequently used it to verify his own work.

The next morning Scorer decides to call it a Switch Rover 10 Rounds of 3 Boards movement. The scoring program is happy because the switch happens between rounds and the Director is happy because he can now cut the 10th round and 9 pairs will have played 24 boards (with a 3 board sitout) and 2 pairs will have played 27 boards (rover pair and E-W starting at Table 5) and everyone can get home in daylight. Might have to have a 10 minute afternoon tea.

So the upshot is: you may expect this movement to be used again for a half table short of six movement to avoid a 4 board sit out. It also presents the opportunity for seeded NS pairs to play against other seeded NS pairs.

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Wasn't that fun!

For the pedants out there that was rhetoric.