Talk:Nicola Smith

Ranks second among Women WGM
Smith ranks second among World Grand Masters (women) by placing points, if I clerk correctly. See WBF: Women World Grand Masters.

WBF provides two different prefaces for "World Grand Masters" and "Top Master Point Holders" as they are labeled in the right-hand "Top Players" menu. The former states that the lists are "in accordance with their Placing Points total. Placing Points are not affected by time." On the contrary, both lists are sorted by Master Points that decay annually. Neither is sortable, but 44 PP for Smith stands out in the second column as one of only three in the 40s.

Smith is/was 2nd behind Jill Meyers (PP) and behind Catherine D'Ovidio (MP) --sometime prior to the 2014 cycle completed in October.

--P64 (talk) 02:29, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Individuals competition
Maybe not worth saying in the article: Smith was second in the "Individuals Women" field of 24 at the 1st SportAccord World Mind Games, December 2011. Regular partners Janice Seamon-Molson and Tobi Sokolow of USA won the gold and bronze medals. --ref: "Great Success of the 2011 SportAccord World Mind Games". IMSA (imsaworld.com). [December 2011]. (not June as it says)

In the Sokolow biography moments ago, I called the event "a tournament (now rarely-contested) in which every player has a different partner in every round." ACBL/North America has none at NABC-level (or "national"). WBF dropped it from the world championships roster after 2008. How unusual is it in Europe? or in the UK? --P64 (talk) 20:32, 11 November 2014 (UTC)


 * In the UK, there is the occasional individual competition, but - at least at the top level - they aren't common. And I think they are usually open events; I don't think I've heard of one restricted to women before. But given the prestige of the World Mind Games, that particular competition may be worth mentioning. JH (talk page) 20:49, 11 November 2014 (UTC)