Winter Cup: first two rounds - posted by Neil Williamson, 13 September 2025

Winter Cup 2025 update.

The first round was played today.

Next round in 2 weeks time.

The results after two rounds. Not very exciting results. Byes ftw. See the last picture.

We are playing on 10' x 5' tables, 450ap, and free modified stratagems. Graham brought in a large 2FE hill. 

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What the armies consist of.

Germans

Parthian

Hungarians

The results after 2 rounds. 4 points between 1st and last.
25 pts for byes.

Vincent Cholewa

What do the letters next to the first too scores mean? They are H, L, M.

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Neil Williamson

Vincent Cholewa I needed to seed the players for the draw for

Round 2. There were 3 on 14pts and 3 on 11pts. The top 3 rolled a die and the bottom 3 rolled a die. Highest, middle, low throw.

Then I could apply Swiss.

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Bruce Ferguson

Vincent Cholewa Its the Swilliamson Chess method

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Neil Williamson

Bruce Ferguson aka Liechtenstein method. Pretty damn close to Swiss.