1966 European Free Game Championship

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13th European Free Game Championship 1966
Tournament dates
Tournament type: European Championship
Tournament format: Round robin
Organizer: CEB
Tournament details
Venue: Hotel Semiramis,
Cairo EgyptEgypt
Opening: February 7, 1966
Endgame: February 10, 1966
Attendees: 8th
Defending champion: NetherlandsNetherlands Henk Scholte
Winner: FranceFrance Jean Marty
2nd finalist: NetherlandsNetherlands Henk Scholte
3rd place: BelgiumBelgium Joseph Vervest
Prize money: European amateur championship
Records
Best GD: 194.44 Jean MartyFranceFrance
Best ED: 500.00 Jean Marty Joseph Vervest Heinrich WeingartnerFranceFrance
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Maximum series (HS): 00500 Jean Marty Henk Scholte Joseph Vervest Heinrich WeingartnerFranceFrance
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Venue on the map
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The free game European championship in 1966 was the 13th tournament in this discipline of carom billiards and took place from 7 to 10 February 1966 in Cairo . It was the first free game European championship in Egypt.

history

The ex-professional Jean Marty took part in a free match European Championship for the first time and showed his great ability. Undefeated, he won his first class performance in this discipline for France. Despite good performances, the defending champion Henk Scholte only managed to finish second this time. The four-time European champion in the free game Joseph Vervest came third. The German champion Hartmut Burwig from Berlin showed a solid performance after four defeats at the beginning with three consecutive wins.

mode

The game was played in a final round "everyone against everyone" up to 500 points.

  1. MP = match points
  2. GD = general average
  3. HS = maximum series

Closing table

Closing table
space Surname MP Pts Recording GD BED HS
1 FranceFrance Jean Marty 14: 0 3500 18th 194.44 500.00 500
2 NetherlandsNetherlands Henk Scholte 12: 2 3054 29 105.31 250.00 500
3 BelgiumBelgium Joseph Vervest 8: 6 2148 25th 85.92 500.00 500
4th SpainSpain Ramon Aguilera 8: 6 2068 45 45.95 71.42 441
5 GermanyGermany Hartmut Burwig 6: 8 1835 53 34.62 250.00 499
6th AustriaAustria Heinrich Weingartner 4:10 1337 29 46.10 500.00 500
7th EgyptEgypt Mustafa Diab 4:10 1336 56 23.85 71.42 373
8th EgyptEgypt Tawfik Adn el Salam 0:14 775 63 12.30 - 165
Tournament average: 50.48
Legend
Abbr. meaning
Pt. points scored
Recording required recordings
ED Single average
GD General average
VGD Relative general average
BMD Best team average
BED Best individual average
BSD Best sentence average
BEVD Best Individual Relative Average
HS Maximum series
MP Match points
PP Lot of points
GUV G ewonnen- U nentschieden- V erloren
SV Sentence ratio
1st place (gold)
2nd place (silver)
3rd place (bronze)
Best GD of the tournament / round
Best VGD of the tournament / round
Best ED of the tournament / round
Best BVGD of the tournament / round
Best HS of the tournament / round
(It is possible that not all terms are used or some are not listed. These can be looked up in the list of collision terms .)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helmut Schulz: Billard-Zeitung . Volume 44, No. 3 . Krefeld March 1966, p. 34-35 .
  2. ^ Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 1 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 38 .