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Go to: Commentary Games Players tsh Reports Standings Photos Prizes Back to 2010 King's Cup Live Coverage 2010 King's Cup Commentary: Round 7[ ] Go to: Round 1, Round 2, Round 3, Round 4, Round 5, Round 6, Round 7, Round 8, Round 9, Round 10, Round 11, Round 12, Round 13, Round 14, Round 15, Round 16, Round 17, Round 18, Round 19, Round 20, Round 21, Round 22, Round 23, Round 24, Round 25, Round 26, Round 27, Final Round 1, Final Round 2. We rushed off as soon as the last game reported in last night (a little too quickly as it happened, considering the mistaken report of the winner at Board 1), to go to the Hotel Novotel (Siam Square) for the Thai Crossword Association's annual "Hall of Fame Night" reception honouring overseas players visiting for the King's Cup as well as local players who have excelled over the past year. We were honoured by the presence of the Minister for the Office of the Prime Minister, Mr. Ong-arj Krampaipul, who kindly awarded several of the prizes himself. Representatives from each of the foreign countries represented here were officially welcomed and presented with gifts. There was live entertainment, including a young virtuoso (a Grade 4 student) playing classical Thai music on the Thai xylophone and a band playing North American soft rock classics, accompanied at one point by Bob Jackman (AUS) and John Barker (AUS) singing "Hotel California". During the long awards ceremony, guests who could take a moment to tear themselves away from the sumptuous buffet (my favourite was the larb moo) could work through a booklet of puzzles, with completed entries eligible for a draw. I took longer than most to finish them, as I have no experience looking for "A-Math" bingoes, but managed in the end, and was surprised when my name was called out as the winner of a Chinese-English-Thai (and word game) electronic dictionary. If you'd like to try your hand at these yourself, see if you can do the following over a meal. Anagrams: ABENQTU AAEINNRRSVY GILOORSU BEEIJLU AEHINPPSS A-MATH: anagram the following A-MATH tiles to form A-MATH bingoes (valid mathematical equations). You may combine numbers to spell longer ones, as long as they are no longer than three digits. You may not put a zero at the beginning of a multi-digit number. I write 'x' for multiplication and '/' for division. 0 2 3 5 6 15 - x = 2 4 13 14 15 - - = 0 1 2 3 6 17 + / = 1 1 2 3 4 9 - x = Sudoku: 6 . . | . . 8 | . 9 2 2 8 4 | . . . | . 5 . . . . | 5 . 4 | . 1 . ------+-------+------ 4 . 7 | . 3 . | 6 . . . . . | 8 . 7 | . . . . . 6 | . 1 . | 2 . 5 ------+-------+------ . 1. .| 6 . 2 | . . . . 4. .| . . . | 1 6 7 3 6 . | 7 . . | . . 9 2 7 . | . . . | . 3 8 8 . . | . 7 . | . . 4 . . 9 | 8 . 2 | 7 . . ------+-------+------ . . 2 | 1 . 8 | 4 . . . 3 . | . . . | . 9 . . . 5 | 2 . 9 | 8 . . ------+-------+------ . . 7 | 4 . 6 | 3 . . 6 . . | . 8 . | . . 2 1 8 . | . . . | . 4 7 Now on to the morning's events. Because a planned schedule change didn't make it into the contestants' printed materials, some players arrived for an 11:00 A.M. start, while others will presumably show up for the originally planned 11:15 start. Players who are present have been encouraged to start (many didn't need the encouragement); those waiting for opponents have been advised that clocks will not be started until 11:15. In the end, the only ones who were late were Sam Kantimathi (USA) and Thacha Koowirat (THA), each only by a few minutes. Sam inadvertently reset the SamTimer, but when his opponent brought this to my attention, we were able to correctly deduct his lateness from his clock. My second "cha yen" (Thai iced tea) of the morning arrived, but I'll be nursing it more slowly, as I got my first good night's sleep in about two months last night, thanks to excellent food, the comfort of being in the most hospitable nation in the world, and of course utter exhaustion. Ravee is busy getting ready for tomorrow's events, so I'm keeping an eye on the room while he works beside me. Our seven-game schedule today will be interrupted after two games for lunch, and after the fifth game for coffee. Gerald Carter (Eng) walks up to me to turn in his results and I've never seen him looking so delighted. I thought at first of course that he was happy to see me, but no, he had just drawn both blanks and kept his cool in a tight end game with no time left to beat Nigel Richards (NZL) 471-453, apparently for the third time in a row now. The electronic scoreboard monitor systems have all had to be rebooted, as I misunderstood that when I told Windows that I did not want updates installed or the system rebooted that it would not install updates or reboot the system. Pakorn Nemitrmansuk (THA) came up to me with his result, and pointed out that he had corrected last night's error and was now in first place as originally reported. Pakorn beat Ming Hui Hubert Wee (SGP) 432-416, Panupol Sujjayakorn (THA) lost 424-461 to Charnwit Sukhumrattanaporn (THA), leaving four players at 6-1: Pakorn, Panupol, Charnwit and Siu Hean Cheah (SGP). |
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