At the World Championships last summer I likened Dan Rovira’s hue, demeanour and poetic command of all things English language and prose with John Keating, his fellow English teacher, so memorably portrayed by the late Robin Williams in Dead Poet’s Society.
What news of Dan since? Well he’s continued to make waves and a relentless march forward in the game. More on him later but starting at the top, this was my debut at Brighton as it usually clashed with cross-country meets. It did here too, but I let my son take the strain at the County Championships at Denbies Vinyard, Dorking. At the second huge climb, nausea overwhelmed him and he had to stop to redecorate the vines. Alas, my tournament saw me redecorate the furniture [metaphorically in my case], with a 1-5 return. All my matches were terrific though and I lost one at 99.3% and another at 93%, with all the rest very close. Just what you want from a backgammon tourney!
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