This new tournament and first of its kind ever, is for the speedy backgammon lovers. The Main Event will be held in a SpeedGammon time setting, offering a lot of games. Each round will be a „best of 3 matches to 5 points“. The main competition will be in the popular ft-swiss-format with 3 lives.

However, we will also offer side events throughout the tournament days, both in speed and normal format, as well as a superjackpot and a doubles.

Download your personal brochure here and start make travel arrangements.

The “sunshine & beach” event will take place at the THB EL Cid Class Hotel**** on the beach in Playa de Palma, a few minutes away from the international airport and Palma de Mallorca with restaurants, bars, beach promenade, pools and wellness.

The schedule will allow vacation on the beach, social dinners with friends, daily Chouette action by the pool and
sightseeing trips in the morning. We will offer an awards ceremony on the last day with cocktails and finger-food.

Come and enjoy the excellent food and wines, the warm sunshine, the sandy beaches and this new tournament in Majorca among friends.

Make sure to BRING YOUR OWN BOARD and to reserve your room quickly since the hotel is always quickly sold out in September.

Attachments:

Brochure Mallorca 2018

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This year’s Portuguese Open will be marked as “Paul Magriel (X-22) Memorial”, the Godfather of backgammon and one of the most influential personalities of the game who sadly passed away this year. We will keep his memory alive during this tournament by naming the warm-up after him and awarding a special prize for the player rolling 22 ("Quacks" as Paul called them) upon registration to the main event.

Download your personal brochure here and start making travel arrangements.

The “sunshine, beach and family” event will take place for the 13th time in a row at the Riviera Hotel**** in Carcavelos with shops, restaurants, cafés and the beach nearby. The schedule will allow vacation on the beach, social dinners with friends, daily Chouette action by the pool and sightseeing trips in the morning. Various side-events will be lined up. We’ll have the legendary “Social Sushi Dinner” and the “farewell”-drinks on the beach after the awards ceremony and the finger-food on the last day.

Come and enjoy the excellent food and wines, the warm sunshine, the sandy beaches and the inexpensive and lavish lifestyle, after the Monte-Carlo tournaments, and enjoy as a contrast the relaxing “backgammon holidays” among friends and family. Make sure to reserve your room quickly since the hotel is always quickly sold out in August.

Attachments:

Brochure Portugal 2018

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Paul Magriel, aka X-22, passed away in Las Vegas on Monday, March 5th 2018. 

X will always be remembered as one of the greatest legends of the game, the godfather of modern backgammon and author of the backgammon bible called "Backgammon". His unforgotten achievements in backgammon and poker are plenty and many.

A great loss for backgammon. Rest In Peace, Paul!

The WBA tournament management software, tsystem, has stopped online operation on March 1st, 2018

In the future, WBA will be using ftbgsystem as their tournament management software, which is a further development of tsystem, offering more features and being updated regularly.

The development and frequent updates of ftbgsystem require countless hours of work and manpower. This why the software is no longer free of charge.

For more information and enquiries, please visit www.ftbgsystem.com

4th Mindsports World Championships in Doha, Qatar.

A total prize-pool exceeding $200,000 spread around various games: chess, bridge, go, scrabble, e-sports and backgammon.

Various events will be held for the backgammon part, taking place during 3 days, 25th-27th August 2017. A traditional backgammon tournament, a modern backgammon tournament, a 1-point (DMP) Challenge, a Speedgammon Challenge, and a Double Consultation in Modern Backgammon.

Minimum overall guaranteed prize-pool: $6,000 and might go up to $12,000

Additional info and registration: http://msawc2017.com/backgammon/
Hotel bookings: http://msawc2017.com/hotels/

Come and discover Qatar and enjoy your favorite games!

Didier Assaraf from France wins this year´s World Champion title, defeating Backgammon Giant Petko Kostadinov. Didier managed to remain undefeated during the entire main event. Congratulations!

A huge "thank you" to all the participants of the XII. Portuguese Open for making it once again a very special one, among friends and family in a relaxed and cool atmosphere.

This tournament is outstanding in the circuit for being the most relaxed holiday and backgammon tournament with lots of time for sightseeing, relaxing, socializing, dining and drinking and fun, on top of backgammon action and competition.

See you all next year for a very special edition of this tournament for which many have already signed up.

Mark your calendar for the week after Monaco to spend a cool week (or more) in sunny Portugal...

Official Results Portugal 2017:

• Special Award (best assistant): Niusha Tafazzoli (D)
• Special Award (youngest player): Viky Cerna (CZ)
• Special Award (unluckiest player): Franck Stepler (F)

• Chouette-King: Thibaud Thompson (CH)
• DMP-Challenge (64): Eva Zizkova (CZ)
• SpeedGammon-Challenge (64): Michel Serrero (F)
• Super-Jackpot (16): Thomas Kristensen (DK)
• Doubles Winners (16): Katalin & Zsuzsanna Veszeli (H)
• SpeedGammon Jackpot (16): Tatsuya Tanaka (JP)

• “José Salema Memorial” (32): Anna-Maria Zarb (CH)

• Leisure 2nd: Sonia Pellegrini (I)
• Leisure Winner: Luisa Sequeira (P)

• Elite Ultimate Fight Winner: Pavel Zaoral (CZ)
• Elite 3rd: Honza Cerny (CZ)
• Elite 2nd: Zdenek Zizka (CZ)
• Winner Portuguese Open 2017: Thomas Kristensen (DK)

Attachments:

Borchure Portugal 2017

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WBA Events in 2016 are in accordance with BMAB Partnership Program.

Recording is allowed. Matches of the players wanting to be rated and ranked for BMAB will be accepted as such in accordance with the BMAB rules.

The tournaments in Munich, Köln, Portugal, Frankfurt and Prague will be BMAB labelled.

In order to meet Falafel, the highest ranked backgammon player in the world, I took a Greyhound bus to Atlantic City, and then hopped a jitney to the Borgata Hotel. Falafel’s real name is Matvey Natanzon, but no one calls him that, not even his mother, who calls him Mike, the name that he adopted when they emigrated from Israel to Buffalo—one leg in a long journey that began in Soviet Russia. Now even Falafel calls himself Falafel...

Read the rest of the article, published in New York Times here.

Axel Reichert, a software programmer and analytic backgammon player from Munich, has analyzed several pip-counting methods and developed a few of them for a more simple but efficient use during matches.