Author: Marc Smith

Marc Smith visits the TampAlt Qualifying event Sixteen teams were invited to play the qualifying event for TampAlt, the online substitute for the US Fall Nationals, which had originally been scheduled for the Florida city. The format was a 12-match Swiss Teams, with the top eight teams advancing to the main event. As usual, we…

Marc Smith visits the knockout stage of Alt Mixed V Just four teams advanced to the knockout stage of Alt Mixed V. The round robin winners, ALPERTS (USA, Italy, Colombia) would start with a 10.1-IMP advantage over the other surviving American-flagged team, WILSON (USA, Sweden). In the other semi-final, SILLA (Norway) began 6.1 IMPs ahead…

Marc Smith visits the round robin stage of Alt Mixed V This week, we look at the action from the final matches in the round robin stage of Alt Mixed V. The format is a complete robin of nine, 20-board matches with the leading four teams advancing to the knockout stage. We left things last…