From skat at davidparlett.co.uk Thu Jan 3 05:09:11 2008 From: skat at davidparlett.co.uk (David Parlett) Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 10:09:11 +0000 Subject: [Bska] Skat at The Plough on 2 February 2008 Message-ID: Skat at The Plough, Saturday 2 February 2008 I am organising the next British Skat Association day at The Plough, Museum Street (between Tottenham Court Road and the British Museum) on Saturday 2 February. On this occasion, by way of experiment, I propose to devote the morning session to learners, beginners, practice and informal play, and the afternoon to one of our usual Synchron (Duplicate) Skat tournaments. The plan at present is as follows: 11.00 am - Arrivals and introductions 11.30 am - Teaching, coaching and informal play 13.00 - Lunch 13.30 - Latest registration time for Synchron tournament 14.00 - Synchron tournament starts 19.00 (approximately, probably later) Prize-giving Whether the tournament consists of three or four sessions, and what time it is likely to end, will depend on how many wish to take part. Please let me know as soon as you conveniently can whether - 1. You are an experienced or an inexperienced player 2. You hope to attend the morning session 3. You will be ordering lunch at the Plough 3. You hope to take part in the afternoon Synchron tournament. There will be an entry fee of ?5 for the whole day or part thereof. With best wishes for the New Year -- David Parlett President, British Skat Association See my Skat pages at http://www.davidparlett.co.uk/skat and the BSkA web site at http://www.weddslist.com/skat From nmatavkova at rogers.com Fri Jan 4 17:28:36 2008 From: nmatavkova at rogers.com (Nick Matavka Esq.) Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 17:28:36 -0500 Subject: [Bska] (no subject) Message-ID: Gentlemen: Although the draught copy of my book is nearing completion, I would like to obtain any information about an ostensibly two-player version of the game known as Offiziersskat. Would anyone mind helping me? The only pages I could find have a very low SNR, are very bare in content, and are in badly-composed German and I have quite some trouble translating it (though I can read German perfectly). Therefore I ask of any audacious travellers of the Web to aid me in my endeavours. Cordially, Nick. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nmatavkova at rogers.com Fri Jan 4 18:55:58 2008 From: nmatavkova at rogers.com (Nick Matavka Esq.) Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 18:55:58 -0500 Subject: [Bska] (no subject) Message-ID: <460D5247ADF64D25A0F23F4E59EA460D@johnny> Gentlemen (and Mr Wedd specifically): I have chosen to include the Synchron scoring systems, both as mathematical equations and as equations for Quattro and Excel. Do I require attribution, acknowledgment or neither? If I require attribution, who do I list as author? Please note that if I receive no reply indicating that I do otherwise, I will acknowledge the British Skat Association. Nick -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nmatavkova at rogers.com Fri Jan 4 19:02:00 2008 From: nmatavkova at rogers.com (Nick Matavka Esq.) Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 19:02:00 -0500 Subject: [Bska] Promotion of BSkA with Book Message-ID: <36CA0EE5D7E342EE8E9139F0D7FDBFB6@johnny> Mr Wedd: It would be nice to be able to promote the Association with the book; my conception of this is: "Join the BSkA and be authorised to get a free rulebook, written by a member." We would get a few more members this way I think. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From MikeTob at aol.com Tue Jan 8 05:23:38 2008 From: MikeTob at aol.com (MikeTob at aol.com) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 05:23:38 EST Subject: [Bska] (no subject) Message-ID: In a message dated 04/01/2008 22:30:01 GMT Standard Time, nmatavkova at rogers.com writes: Gentlemen: Although the draught copy of my book is nearing completion, I would like to obtain any information about an ostensibly two-player version of the game known as Offiziersskat. Would anyone mind helping me? The only pages I could find have a very low SNR, are very bare in content, and are in badly-composed German and I have quite some trouble translating it (though I can read German perfectly). Therefore I ask of any audacious travellers of the Web to aid me in my endeavours. Cordially, Nick. Skatcorner _http://www.skat24.de/download/download.php_ (http://www.skat24.de/download/download.php) have a version of Offizierskat available for download as shareware. Regards, Mike -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From uwe42g at yahoo.de Tue Jan 8 08:13:26 2008 From: uwe42g at yahoo.de (Uwe Greiner) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 13:13:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Bska] Offiziersskat Message-ID: <800531.77392.qm@web25612.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Dear Nick, if you mail me the German version of rules and your translation, I might be able to help you. I remember I played Offiziersskat long time ago... Cheers, Uwe __________________________________ Ihr erstes Baby? Holen Sie sich Tipps von anderen Eltern. www.yahoo.de/clever From MikeTob at aol.com Tue Jan 15 03:13:30 2008 From: MikeTob at aol.com (MikeTob at aol.com) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:13:30 EST Subject: [Bska] Social Skat Wednesday Message-ID: Hello All, If anyone would like an evening of social Skat, a few of us will be at the Mitre, 1 Ely Place EC1N 6N. tomorrow, Wednesday 16th, from 7pm. Ely Place is an alleyway between nos 8 and 9 Hatton Garden, marked by a crooked lamppost and a bishop's mitre. All welcome Mike -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jonathan at chinese-channel.co.uk Tue Jan 15 09:57:31 2008 From: jonathan at chinese-channel.co.uk (Jonathan Madden) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:57:31 -0000 Subject: [Bska] Social Skat Wednesday Message-ID: I'll be there. Jonathan Madden _____ From: MikeTob at aol.com [mailto:MikeTob at aol.com] Sent: 15 January 2008 08:14 To: Bska at weddslist.com Subject: [Bska] Social Skat Wednesday Hello All, If anyone would like an evening of social Skat, a few of us will be at the Mitre, 1 Ely Place EC1N 6N. tomorrow, Wednesday 16th, from 7pm. Ely Place is an alleyway between nos 8 and 9 Hatton Garden, marked by a crooked lamppost and a bishop's mitre. All welcome Mike ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From MikeTob at aol.com Sat Jan 26 11:31:20 2008 From: MikeTob at aol.com (MikeTob at aol.com) Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:31:20 EST Subject: [Bska] Foster's Skat Manual Message-ID: Hi All, Foster's Skat manual (3rd edition 1922) has been digitally reproduced, and is available in paperback from Amazon and Amazon resellers if anyone's interested. It's an American publication (first pub 1906) and comes from a time when both the American and the German games had three different types of trump game:- skat exchange, tournee (where the suit of one of the Skat cards determined trumps and solo (what we now call a hand game) with a range of different suit values. Regards, Mike Tobias. For more info on the historical changes _http://www.davidparlett.co.uk/skat/skathist.html_ (http://www.davidparlett.co.uk/skat/skathist.html) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nick at maproom.co.uk Sun Feb 3 10:47:13 2008 From: nick at maproom.co.uk (Nick Wedd) Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 15:47:13 +0000 Subject: [Bska] Future meetings of the British Skat Association Message-ID: At our meeting yesterday in The Plough, Museum Street, London, we learned that the upstairs room of The Plough is to be renovated, and we will no longer be able to meet in The Plough. For our next meeting, we have found a pub which can provide a room for us. This is the "Bloomsbury pub". It is very near The Plough, south-west from it, just across Holborn. You can reach it from Tottenham, Court Road underground station, by walking east along Holborn until you see it on the right. It serves food, and an excellent range of real beers. However, it has disadvantages. It is not open on Sundays; so our mid-March meeting has been rescheduled from Sunday 13th to Saturday 12th. Also, the upstairs room which we have engaged is rather small. It can accommodate, at the very most, six 3-players tables or five 4-player tables. Even at these number, it will be very crowded. So we are looking for another venue for meetings from April onwards. If you know of anything suitable, please let me know. We will keep you informed via this list. Nick -- Nick Wedd nick at maproom.co.uk From nick at maproom.co.uk Sun Feb 3 12:30:51 2008 From: nick at maproom.co.uk (Nick Wedd) Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 17:30:51 +0000 Subject: [Bska] Future meetings .. correction Message-ID: In my previous mailing I wrote "our mid-March meeting has been rescheduled from Sunday 13th to Saturday 12th." I should have written "our mid-March meeting has been rescheduled from Sunday 16th to Saturday 15th." Nick -- Nick Wedd nick at maproom.co.uk From nick at maproom.co.uk Fri Mar 7 05:33:38 2008 From: nick at maproom.co.uk (Nick Wedd) Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 10:33:38 +0000 Subject: [Bska] Synchron Skat, March 15th Message-ID: Our next Synchron Skat event will be tomorrow week, Saturday March 15th. It will be in the usual format, but at a new venue, the Bloomsbury Tavern. If you forget this and turn up at The Plough instead, it won't be a disaster, the Bloomsbury Tavern is only five minutes walk away. But it would be best if you looked at the instructions for getting there, at http://www.weddslist.com/skat/ploughnw.html . As usual, please let me whether you are intending to play, at least two days before the event, so that I can arrange prizes and warn the pub how many of us to expect. Please also register on the day before 11:15, either in person or (if you aren't there by 11:15 but will be there by 11:30 when play starts) by ringing my mobile, 07890 998884. Nick -- Nick Wedd nick at maproom.co.uk From nick at maproom.co.uk Sun Mar 16 10:39:00 2008 From: nick at maproom.co.uk (Nick Wedd) Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:39:00 +0000 Subject: [Bska] Congratulations to Patrick! Message-ID: Congratulations to Patrick Phair, the winner of yesterday's Synchron Skat event. The scores are available at http://www.weddslist.com/skat/results/ht01/results.html This event had a very low attendance, so we had no trouble fitting into the upstairs room at the Bloomsbury Tavern. I expect our next Synchron event, organised by John McLeod in the Powerhouse Sporting Club, 44-48 Clerkenwell Road, will be better attended. Also available, thanks to Patrick, are all the hand records and contracts from our previous two events. November: http://www.weddslist.com/skat/results/pl06/hands.xls February: http://www.weddslist.com/skat/results/pl07/hands.xls Nick -- Nick Wedd nick at maproom.co.uk From john at pagat.com Sat Mar 29 07:36:28 2008 From: john at pagat.com (John McLeod) Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:36:28 +0000 Subject: [Bska] Skat tournament in London - 12th April Message-ID: Dear Skat-player The next BSkA Skat tournament will take place on Saturday 12th April at The Powerhouse Sporting Club (also known as the Gutshot Poker Club), 44-48 Clerkenwell Road, London, EC1M 5PS. The nearest underground station is Farringdon. Its web site is http://www.gutshot.com/e/card_club/cardclub.php This is our first tournament in this venue: if it proves popular we may adopt it as a regular location for our events. It is a private members' club with a bar and restaurant and facilities for other games as well (including poker). Membership of the Powerhouse Sporting Club is free, and you are welcome to join, for which you will need to bring photo ID. However, you do not need to be a member of the Powerhouse Sporting Club to play in our Skat tournament. Both members and non-members will pay an admission charge of ?3 on the door. This is in addition to our usual ?5 entry fee for the tournament. Play will start at 11:30am. We will follow the usual pattern of four sessions of duplicate Skat, lasting about 90 minutes each, with a break for lunch after the first session, aiming to finish before 8pm. Further details is available on the BSkA web site at http://www.weddslist.com/skat/ or feel free to ask any questions by replying to this message. I would be grateful if you could let me know a few days in advance whether you plan to take part, so that we can inform the club what players to expect and know what prizes we can afford. You can email me at john at pagat.com or call me on 020 7636 9653. People who have not registered in advance are still welcome to enter by coming to the Powerhouse Sporting Club on the day. You can be admitted to the club as a guest and we will and we will do our best to include you in the tournament. On the day, please try to arrive before 11:15. If you will be arriving later than this, please call my mobile 07736 518738 or send a message to let me know at what time you expect to be there (this applies whether or not have registered in advance). Players who do not appear or send a message by 11:15 are not guaranteed a place in the first session. Looking forward to seeing you on 12th April. -- John McLeod For information on card games visit john at pagat.com http://www.pagat.com/