The DALLAS OPEN
March 11–12, 2006
Organized by Chris Cree

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2006 Dallas Open Photos: Round 11

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Photo 11-001

BOITE was the first play on the board owned by Jan Mills (Georgetown ON; 1735) that was discovered to be missing the double word square insert. It should be one row above and one square to the left of the B in BOITE.

Photo 11-002

Brian Cappelletto (Chicago, IL; 1950), annotated by Sue Hoehn, in his well-known "hover over scoresheet mode", vs. Sal Piro (New York, NY; 1835), annotated by Dee Segrest.

Photo 11-003

Travis Chaney (Van Buren, AR; 1708) vs. Darrell Day (Richardson, TX; 1881). PEEBEENS? USQUEBAE? Awesome finds, Travis!

Photo 11-004

Jason Katz-Brown (Cambridge, MA; 1935) vs. Jim Geary (Phoenix, AZ; 1942) in midplay mode. Note Jason's ever-present, diminutive container of OJ.

Photo 11-005

Bryan Pepper demos the word judge software for ? while Michael Connally (Bulverde, TX; 1200) watches on.

Photo 11-006

Another great John OLaughlin (Hartland, WI; 1860) board, studied by Marlon Hill (Baltimore, MD; 1842), T J Jeng (Dallas, TX; 1312), Aaron Bader (Massachusetts, MA; 1657), and John.

Photo 11-007

Joel Sherman (Bronx, NY; 1886) takes a peek at his fellow clubmate's scorecard. Sal Piro (New York, NY; 1835) has just played the Brian Cappelletto (Chicago, IL; 1950) steamroller at table 1.

Photo 11-008

Calisthenics a la Joel Sherman (Bronx, NY; 1886) style.

Photo 11-009

Good friends, Jerry Lerman (Foster City, CA; 1907) and Joe Edley (Coram, NY; 2007) go over positional possibilities on Jerry's PDA.

Photo 11-010

Travis Chaney (Van Buren, AR; 1708) and Winter Zxqkj (Houston, TX; 1626) discuss blogging (I completely made that up).

Photo 11-011

A sample page from one of Mary Rhoades' two giant binders of tournament photos. Check out the Jim Geary (Phoenix, AZ; 1942) pup!

Photo 11-012

Mary Rhoades' growing binder of tournament photos.

Photo 11-013

An article from The Dallas Morning News.

Photo 11-014

High DO word sign-up sheet.


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