Ah, the Cambridge EGP, biggest and coolest othello tournament of the year. And I scraped the funds together to go to it, and it was a fantastic weekend! 39 competitors, running the full range of old* and new, old* and young, local and international, there was a bit of everything!
*'Old' the first time there means people who've been playing for fifty years, 'old' the second time just means generally geriatric like me. There were beginners and very young people there too, and whatever your level of experience and skill, you'd find another competitor around the same level! It really was a perfect lineup of participants.
I was basically terrible, but ended up with five wins out of eleven, which could have been worse. It's hard to find a way to pretend I achieved my "fifty percent success" target, but I wasn't far off! And it was nice to get away to the familiar surroundings of Trinity College and pretend I'm some kind of varsity type. I've been going to that tournament since I don't remember when. I was definitely there in 2003 (it snowed), but I'd possibly been there at least once before. I'd look it up, but I'm too lazy. I'll research it before I have to tell someone I've forgotten, because that's always embarrassing for a memory master like me...
