Hamilton Stars Barred (and Stars Barred sections in general)

[robin moore]

I was casually strolling through past postings when I was reading through this. That is when I had a slightly father ted "mad" idea. When a group of us went to play at the Benidorm International we always had a handicap sweep. Elliot Frew for example was off scratch, I would get about 2.5 of a start and young David Gillespie got 4 of a start eg. 9 round event, usually ended in a photo finish, I remember we had to use a tie break to seperate Elliot, me, big Pat and David junior one year. Now this might sound nuts but could there be a format here for having an experimental tournament with your handicap based on grade? There would obviously have to be a limit on the "start" anyone would get and the number of rounds/difficulty in pairings/deciding tie break rules would be an issue, but there may be enough there to suggest a very interesting weekend especially as there could be a right jumble in the last round (with live boards present). Winner take all, minus 10% to Scottish juniors seeing I suggested it.

Robin.

Or maybe a six round one day allegro with a view to raising funds for Scottish juniors and the live boards fund?