Online Barbu Ladder

Submitting results

Ladder results should be sent to online.barbu.results@virgin.net. Emails to this address are processed automatically by a piece of software, so please don’t send any other correspondence to this address.

The results should be provided in the same form as the play records produced by the program (“File” then “Save Hand records”), but with full names, abbreviations or aliases in place of the "handles" used during the game. For an explanation of the rules for abbreviations, and a list of aliases, please click here:

Player naming and current alias list

More information

How the rating system works

Credits

Many people have been contributed to the creation of the ranking system. However, special thanks are due to:

· Gerben Dirksen, for having the idea, devising the original formula, writing the first program to calculate ratings, administering it for most of the first year, and providing useful advice and mathematical assistance ever since.

· Graham Hazel, without whose software none of it would have been possible.

Steve Altus, David Beer, Lew Stansby, Neil Trentham and Giles Woodruff, for providing advice and comments.

Barbu Heroes

Largest number of ladder wins

Neil Trentham (9)

All time highest scorer

Kit Woolsey (+653)

Highest score on a single deal

Kit Woolsey: +275 at Dominoes, subsequently equalled by Jon Rice

Winners, 2008

January: Willie Whitaker

February: Ben Handley-Pritchard

March: Ben Handley-Pritchard

April: Armando Pontecorvo

May: Fabrizio Farnesi

June: Neil Trentham

July: Jon Rice

August: Chris Dixon

September: John Therkelsen

October: Neil Trentham

Winners, 2003-7

2007 ladder: Mike Rice

2007 “Zester”: Martin Garvey

2007 “Apple core”: Tony Nunn

2006 ladder: Francesco Mazzadi

2006 “Zester”: Martin Garvey

2006 “Apple core”: David Grainger

2005 ladder: Jérome Rombaut

2005 “Zester”: Martin Garvey

2005 “Apple core”: Jérome Rombaut

2004 ladder: Joel Wooldridge

2004 “Zester”: Neil Trentham

2004 “Apple core”: Joel Wooldridge

2003 ladder: JoAnna Stansby

Monthly/bimonthly/quarterly ladders: David Adler, Neil Allerton (twice), Steve Altus (twice), Giovanni Bobbio, Chris Dixon, Graham Hazel, Martin Garvey (four times), Francesco Mazzadi (twice), Joon Pahk, Armando Pontecorvo (twice), Richard Probst, Jérome Rombaut (twice), Mike Rice (five times), JoAnna Stansby (twice), Lew Stansby (three times), John Therkelsen (four times), Laura Tidone (twice), Neil Trentham (seven times), Willie Whitaker (three times), Philip Wood, Kit Woolsey (twice)

Barbu Ladder - input data

Barbu Ladder Scores

Last updated: Sat 08 Nov 2008 12:41 (UK time)

Date South West North East
2008-10-04 Joan Clark -143 Doris Denny 236 Fabrizio Farnesi -207 Mike Rice 114
2008-10-04 Joan Clark 251 Leonardo Cima 59 Laura de Laurentiis -170 Doris Denny -140
2008-10-05 Joan Clark 38 Doris Denny -36 Mel Klein -190 Sally Woolsey 188
2008-10-06 Joan Clark -3 Laura de Laurentiis -98 Ben Handley-Pritchard -25 Fabrizio Farnesi 126
2008-10-07 Joan Clark -177 Mike Rice 29 Ben Handley-Pritchard 31 Fabrizio Farnesi 117
2008-10-08 Martin Garvey -77 Kit Woolsey 96 Anne Jackson 147 Mel Klein -166
2008-10-08 Martin Garvey 110 Annabella Palma -195 Kit Woolsey 94 Anne Jackson -9
2008-10-09 Anne Jackson 93 Neil Trentham 324 Fabrizio Farnesi -463 Ben Handley-Pritchard 46
2008-10-11 Joan Clark 30 Neil Trentham 145 Ed Levy 265 Doris Denny -440
2008-10-11 Anne Jackson 48 Martin Garvey 58 Laura de Laurentiis 108 Leonardo Cima -214
2008-10-13 Joan Clark -286 Kit Woolsey 346 Ben Handley-Pritchard -63 Sally Woolsey 3
2008-10-14 Anne Jackson -93 Neil Trentham 123 Chris Dixon 52 Mike Rice -82
2008-10-17 Anne Jackson 96 Neil Trentham -269 Chris Dixon 98 Mel Klein 75
2008-10-18 Joan Clark 14 Annabella Palma 31 Sally Woolsey 5 Mike Rice -50
2008-10-19 Joan Clark 48 Mel Klein -120 Doris Denny -98 Leonardo Cima 170
2008-10-19 Martin Garvey 192 Neil Trentham 12 Ben Handley-Pritchard 180 Fabrizio Farnesi -384
2008-10-19 Joan Clark 286 Nicholas Cheung -218 Doris Denny 69 Anne Jackson -137
2008-10-19 Joan Clark 133 Carlo Fogaroli -7 Laura Tidone 5 Leonardo Cima -131
2008-10-21 Joan Clark -66 Nicholas Cheung 105 Sally Woolsey -231 Doris Denny 192
2008-10-22 Joan Clark 77 Armando Pontecorvo 118 Chris Dixon 74 Doris Denny -269
2008-10-23 Joan Clark 14 Kit Woolsey 129 Doris Denny -311 Sally Woolsey 168
2008-10-24 Joan Clark 129 JoAnna Stansby 23 Sally Woolsey -90 Doris Denny -62
2008-10-24 Anne Jackson 24 Neil Trentham 349 Doris Denny -318 Mike Rice -55
2008-10-25 Anne Jackson 55 Leonardo Cima 26 Fabrizio Farnesi 14 Laura de Laurentiis -95
2008-10-26 Joan Clark 29 Nicholas Cheung -108 Sally Woolsey 79 Doris Denny 0
2008-10-26 Joan Clark -251 Nicholas Cheung -3 Fabrizio Farnesi 148 Mike Rice 106
2008-10-26 Joan Clark 78 Neil Trentham 130 Fabrizio Farnesi -89 Laura Tidone -119
2008-10-26 Anne Jackson 12 Leonardo Cima 38 Neil Trentham -30 Carlo Fogaroli -20
2008-10-27 Joan Clark 101 Leonardo Cima -46 Michael Wilkinson -57 Lew Stansby 2
2008-10-27 Anne Jackson 114 Neil Trentham 286 Laura de Laurentiis -240 Mike Rice -160
2008-10-28 Anne Jackson 38 Neil Trentham 10 Kit Woolsey -45 Doris Denny -3
2008-10-30 Anne Jackson 115 Neil Trentham 105 Sally Woolsey -395 Chris Dixon 175
2008-10-31 Anne Jackson 225 Neil Trentham -191 Chris Dixon -95 Sally Woolsey 61