Fifteen players found
their way into double digits in the Buffalo Winter Sectional Tournament Jan. 18
to Jan. 20 in the Main-Transit Fire Hall, led by Shakeel Ahmad and Manju
Ceylony, partners in medicine, in life and at the tables. They took away 21.19
points apiece. Last year's leader, Liz Clark, got 19.97 points, and 13 players were in double digits.
Unlike most big point
winners at the Buffalo Sectionals, Shakeel and Manju did not clean up in the Sunday Swiss
team game, where they were second in the B strat and earned only 2.81 of their
points. Their success was in the double session team games Friday and Saturday.
On Friday, they were first overall, collecting 12.72 points. Saturday they were
fourth overall, second in B, good for 5.66 more.
Other leading local
players included Saleh Fetouh, 15.27; Ethan Xie and Chongmin Zhang, 13.41 each;
Peter and Penny Shui, 13.24 each; John Ziemer, 12.89; Bert Hargeshimer and
Christy Kellogg, 10.94 each; Kamil Bishara and Dian Petrov, 10.32 each; and Judi
Marshall, 10.06.
My 6.88 points put me
in 28th place. In all, 146 players earned points. For a full recap, click this link.
Total table count was 153.
How does this compare with recent Winter Sectionals? Last year it was 145. And
in 2016, it was 136.
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