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UPDATE: the New System is rolled out nationally with effect from 2016. See the CA website
for details. Though essentially the same as the new national scheme, the 2015 EACF trial details
are retained here as a matter of record only.

GC Handicap 'New System' trial 2015

Please use the existing standard CA handicap card during 2015. Disregard the Points Exchanged and Trigger Points tables inside the front cover, and use the following instead.

For handicap games the winner's index increases by 10, the loser's decreases by 10.

For level play games use the table below to determine the number of points exchanged.

Points exchanged in Level Play
    LOSER'S HANDICAP
    -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 -0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 14 16 18 20
  -6 10 7 4 2                                   
  -5 13 10 7 4 2                                 
  -4 16 13 10 7 432                               
  -3 18 16 13 10 7532                              
W -2   18 16 13 10 8 6 4 3 2                 1        
I -1     17 15 12 10 8 6 4 3 2                        
N -0     18 17 14 12 10 8 6 4 3 2                      
N 1       18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 3 2                    
E 2         17 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 3 2 2                
R 3         18 17 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 3 3 2 2            
  4           18 17 16 14 12 10 8 6 5 4 3 3 2 2        
H 5             18 17 16 14 12 10 8 7 6 5 4 3 3 2 2    
A 6               18 17 16 14 12 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 3 2 2
N 7                 18 17 15 13 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 3 2
D 8                 18 17 16 14 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 3
I 9                   18 17 15 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3
C 10       19           18 17 16 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4
A 11                     18 17 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5
P 12                     18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6
  14                       18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7
  16                       18 17 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8
  18                         18 17 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9
  20                         18 18 17 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10

Handicap Trigger Points

Handicap Trigger Point   Handicap Trigger Point   Handicap Trigger Point
-6 2800   2 1800   10 1200
-5 2650   3 1700   11 1150
-4 2500   4 1600   12 1100
-3 2350   5 1500   14 1050
-2 2200   6 1400   16 1000
-1 2100   7 1350   18 950
0 2000   8 1300   20 900
1 1900   9 1250      

Extra Turns in Handicap Games

Length of
game		 Handicap Difference
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
19 point 0 1 3 4 6 7 9 10 12 13 15 16 18 19 20 22 23 25 26 28 29 31 32 34 35 37 38
13 point 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
7 point 0 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 6 6 7 8 8 9 9 10 10 11 11 12 12 13 13 14


An A5 card insert (PDF 70 kb) is being sent out to clubs to update all the information found inside the front cover of the existing card, to make it work for the New System.