12th
PAN AMERICAN DRAUGHTS CHAMPIONSHIP
15 –
See
photos on the FMJD site :
http://www.fmjd.org/bb/album_cat.php?cat_id=7
Link to Games notation and animation
(Association québécoise des joueurs de dames) :
Toutes les Parties
en mode dynamique - All games in Applet (merci à Patrick Kopp et Jacques
Permal!)
Download Zip
file of all games notation in doc format:12th-Notation.zip
See all game
animation with analyses: http://www.damclubhiltex.nl/applets/toernooien/panam2004/r01.htm
FINAL STANDING
AW Pt 1 2
3 4
5 6
7 8
9 0
1 2
2 Louiceus Shang Wong 11 - 16 • 2 1 1 2 1 1 2 2 1. 2 1
1 Anthony Alexandre 11 - 17 0 • 2 2 1 2 2 1 2 1 2 2
3 Ricardo Pierre 11 - 13 1 0 • 0 1 1 2 2 0 2 2 2
Alix Louis 11 - 13 1 0 2 • 1 2 0 1 1 2 1 2
Frabrice Maggiore 11 - 13 0 1 1 1 • 1 2 1 1 2 1 2
6 Lelio Marcos 11 - 12 1 0 1 0 1 • 1 1 2 1 2 2
8 LaFontant Cherenfant 11 - 10 1 0 0 2 0 1 • 1 0 1 2 2
8 Dickson Maughn 11 - 10 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 • 2 1 0 2
7
Carlos Lorevil 11 - 11 0 0 2 1 1 0 2 0 • 1 2 2
10 Louis Gilles 11 - 9 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 • 2 1
11 Paulvin Simon 11 - 5 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 • 1
12 Eugene Britt
11 - 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 •
Report about 12th Pan-American Draughts
Championship in
In spite
of all of the negative news about security and so on in Port-au-Prince we managed
to play this championship with 12 players proceeding from Brazil, Canada,
Curaçao, Guadeloupe, Trinidad & Tobago and Haiti. During our stay of some
days in Port-au-Prince on our arrival and departure we just could not take
notice of any insecure situation neither by day nor by night. The organizing
committee really did a great job to host this championship in Cap Haitien and
also the Haitien players were very well prepared for the battle. Of course with
the absence of the “Russian” American and Surinam players the Haitian players
remained as the first favorite to win the championship. The Haitian players and
their coaches were hosted in Hotel Brise du Mer just around the corner where
the games were played while all players from abroad, officials and also
authorities from Port-au-Prince were hosted in the Rival Hotel, a two-years old
hotel built on the edge of a mountain next to the beach and with an excellent
view on the Atlantic Ocean and the north of Haiti.
Even
though this hotel was on a 20 minute walking-distance to the RTK there was an
air-conditioning bus to transport players and officials whenever they needed
to.
On
January 15 at 7 p.m. we held the opening-ceremonies and loting and started the
next morning at 11 o’clock with the first round.
The
championship was played in a very good ambiance with every day about
approximately 200 spectators: men, women, boys and girls visiting the games.
The game
of draughts is extremely popular in Haiti and especially in Cap Haitien.
The organizing
committee had some kind of guard/policeman to
keep the public quiet but after all I think that this was not really
needed as the population of Cap Haitien is
very peacefully, polite, sincere and with a respectfully behavior
towards strangers.
This
championship was sponsored by Mr. Jose Ulysse, owner of a construction company
in Port-au-Prince and also owner of the Radio and Television Station Konbit
where the games were played in Cap Haitien. Mr. Jose Ulysse is a very quiet
good man and has a warm heart for the game of draughts and now became the
official sponsor of the Haitian Draughts Federation. Before the championship was finished we were
trying to get a trainer from Holland for Haiti. Mr. Jose Ulysse is willing to
pay one good trainer to come to Haiti for one year and prepare the players for
the world championship in 2005 in Holland. The closing-ceremonies of this
championship that started at 7 p.m. were a big party like never seen before on
a Pan-American or a World Championship. There were about 350 to 400 guests and
after the official part there was a show of cultural music, Haitian jazz and
dancing that lasted until after
We all
know by now the good performance of the Haitian players in the championship.
Also against each other they played good games. We want to thanks them for this
and also we do congratulate them with this achievement and wish them all the
best in the coming world championship.
Also the
referees Hensley Rondei and Cor Verdel did a very nice job and Nel Verdel was
great at the computer and therefore they also receive our congratulation.
Finally
we want to say thanks to all the players that did come to Haiti to play the
championship especially Mr. Maggiore who finds that we deserve a decoration
from the FMJD for this achievement and to those players who did not come we say
do not cry too much and next time better luck. The 13th Pan-American
Championship with all probability will be held in July 2005 in Montreal Canada
and the 14th edition during the Pan-American Games in 2007 in Rio Do Janeiro in
Brazil.
Raoul Alias.
President PADCF
