Free game world championship 1964

16th Free Game World Championship
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	World Championship
Tournament format:	Round robin
Organizer:	UMB
Tournament details
Venue:	Kursaal in Casino Vigo, Vigo
Opening:	3rd June 1964
Endgame:	June 7, 1964
Attendees:	9
Defending champion:	Pedro Leopoldo Carrera
Winner:	José Gálvez Manzano
2nd finalist:	Jorge Pinto
3rd place:	Jos Vervest
Prize money:	Amateur World Championship
Records
Best GD:	156.76 José Gálvez Manzano0
Best ED:	500.00 José Gálvez Manzano Jorge Pinto Jos Vervest0 0000000 0000000
Maximum series (HS):	00999 Jos Vervest0
Venue on the map
Vigo
← 1953	1969 →

The free game world championship in 1964 was the 16th UMB world championship in the free game. The tournament took place from June 3rd to 7th in Vigo , Spain.

history

The fact that the last World Cup had already been eleven years ago showed that the interest in the free game clearly decreased. Again it was Vigo who organized this championship. It was a world championship of records. José Gálvez Manzano played the new general average record (GD) of 156.76 in eight games . After the trick-taking game it was 135.42, which was also above the old world record. The tournament average was also well above the old record. The surprise of the tournament was the Portuguese Jorge Pinto who finished the tournament level on points with the eventual winner Galvez. In a hard-fought playoff game, however, he then had to admit defeat. The Belgian Jos Vervest was unlucky. He ended the game against Joaquín Domingo in the second shot and would have been the third player with twelve points if he had won. That would have given him the chance to win the title in another playoff game. Domingo managed to tie 493 points in follow-up. Norbert Witte, who replaced the German champion Siegfried Spielmann at short notice, played a good tournament and came in seventh. The Austrian champion Heinrich Weingartner experienced a pitch-black tournament and was only last.

Tournament mode

Round robin mode was played with nine participants. In the event of a tie, the following order will be applied:

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

Closing table

Legend

MP	Match Points (winner = 2; tie = 1; loser = 0)
Pts.	Achieved collisions
Recording	Required attempts
GD	General average
BED	Best individual average by a player
HS	Maximum series
	Best GD of the tournament
	Best ED of the tournament
	Best HS of the tournament
	1st place (gold)
	2nd place (silver)
	3rd place (bronze)

Closing table

space	Surname	MP	Pts.	Recording	GD	BED	HS
1	José Gálvez Manzano	12	3292	21st	156.76	500.00	997
2	Jorge Pinto	12	3696	40	92.40	500.00	922
3	Jos Vervest	11	3153	34	92.73	500.00	999
4th	Osvaldo Berardi	10	2510	27	92.96	250.00	500
5	Henk Scholte	10	2619	31	84.48	250.00	498
6th	Joaquin Domingo	7th	2743	38	72.18	250.00	493
7th	Norbert Witte	6th	2436	45	54.13	250.00	405
8th	Jean-Pierre Poupon	4th	2097	44	47.65	125.00	335
9	Heinrich Weingartner	0	230	32	7.18	---	34
Tournament average : 73.00 (without the trick game)
-	Stitch game
-	José Gálvez Manzano	2-0	500	7th	71.42	71.42	380
-	Jorge Pinto	0: 2	382	7th	54.57	---	325
-	after stitch game
1	José Gálvez Manzano	14: 4	3792	28	135.42	500.00	997
2	Jorge Pinto	12: 6	4078	47	86.76	500.00	922
Tournament average : 72.57 (with trick play)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dieter Striewe: Billiard Revue . 42nd year, no. 3 . Düsseldorf July 1964, p. 6-7 .