Tuesday, November 1, 2011

WYPS in October 2011

10th championship in WYPS



In October was finished 10th championship in WYPS. It was first championship played according to new rules. Winner is Malaj from Hungary, winner of 9th championship too. Most important game was between Malaj and Paradoxx.

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In this position Malaj found ingenious move: MAQUILA and won game in next move.

Interesting game was game #1348948 from final group. Game was played to last letter.
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Several statistics:

Number of games: 261
Longest game: 50 moves.
First player won 46% of games.
Number of moves: 4443
Longest words 11 letters: MANTELSHELF (played in line !), FIELDSTONES, NEUTRALISER, PARASELENAE. All four players who found so long words lost these games !!
Most popular words: ZEE, QI, TEE, TRY, JET

8th WYPS championship on small board



In October finished 8th championship on small board too. Winner is imperatore.

There was found two 11 letters too: TEPEFACTION and ESTERIFYING. Both found Nagy Fathy and he will be play in final group in next championship.

Other championships



October was really rich for finished championship. Finished:

7th German championship
7th Spanish championship
8th French championship
9th Italian championship