Frank Frigo (USA) beats Mario Kühl (Germany) in a 21-point final to become Backgammon World Champion for the second time after 1994. Congratulations!
Mario played the lowest error rate in a World Championship final ever but couldn´t beat the very high luck factor favorizing Frank. Mario, who had previously won the highroller remains the highist casher of the tournament. Well deserved and congratulations!
A new variation of modern backgammon has been invented: ChivaGammon.
It can be played with or without clocks with the regular time settings. It´s modern backgammon with cube played as a match to 5 points.
However, the Crawford Rule has been skipped and instead, in order to win the match, a player must reach minimum 5 points, but with minimum 2 points difference. Like in Tennis and other sports, the match continues as long as the 2 points difference have not been reached.
It´s a great game, demanding special skills and calculations. Try it out.
The yearly event for speed lovers is on once again on sunny Majorca.
Save the dates: 03 to 08 of October4 2023
The highlights will be a "Double Doubles" (Doubles Consultation with 2 lives) and the "Bogidar-Superspeed (5 points, 30 secs total bank time + 8 secs delay per move), along with the main event with 3 lives and best of 3 in each round and a super-jackpot.
For more info, visit the website
Hurry to book your room at the ElCid Playa de Palma at the special backgammon rate, as it fills quickly.
Come to Mallorca, play backgammon, enjoy the sun, meet old and new friends and have fun.
 Schedule Mallorca 2023 | [ ] | 145 kB |
The Anniversary Tournament of ISTAVDER in Istanbul (Turkey) is a must attend in terms of space, equipment, organisation and format. It has been attracting more and more players in the history of is existence.
In 2023, the tentative it have over 1000 players attending from 26th to 30th of April. The location is a huge convention center, which 2 hotels on each side with direct access. The WOW-Hotels and Convention center will be exclusively for this huge tournament during those days. Regardless of the number of participants, there will be plenty of space and "squeezing" won´t happen.
Selected matches will be recorded and streamed, live commentary by top players will be provided, a huge screen will display the most interesting pairing, beautiful and unique trophies will be handed out to the winners, and a wonderful closing awards ceremony will take place.
The entry fee is inexpensive and is only aimed to cover partly the organization costs. Special rates have been arranged at both WOW-Hotels. Side-events such a Consultation Doubles and SpeedGammon, as well as DMP-Challenges and numerous Jackpots will be available throughout the tournament days. The total prize pool is projected to exceed 75.000 € !!!
This is a tournament to experience by every player and a benchmark for all other events around the world.
All the info and bookings are available on www.ftbgsystem.com
Mark your calendar and make your reservation NOW!
WBA has been helpful in the creation of ISTAVDER and is fully supportive of this mega-event and real "backgammon feast"
| Brochure Anniversary Tournament 2023 | [ ] | 1758 kB |
While the passing of Matvey Mike Natanzon aka "Falafel" has got the entire backgammon community mourning, his Japanese friend and backgammon Giant Michihito Michi" Kageyama has written a wonderful tribute to the late hero.
A classy top player honoring another classy top-play!
You can read the tribute here.
| I Mourn for Falafel | [Michi´s Tribute] | 1011 kB |
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
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:
Link to Leisure division: http://tsystem.world-backgammon-association.com/t/1177
Link to Elite division: http://tsystem.world-backgammon-association.com/t/1176
Congratulations to all and see you next year for the "special edition".
| Borchure Portugal 2017 | [PDF File] | 6617 kB |
21st March is "World Backgammon Day" !!!
For many years, we have been encouraging the backgammon community to celebrate the World Backgammon Day by gathering, playing, organizing tournaments and enjoying the game, especially on March 21st.
After the covid-19 pandemic in 2020, 2021 and partly in 2022, the impossibility to run live events due to it, we encourage everyone to catch up in 2023 and to celebrate the oldest game on the planet with friends and family.
Have fun & play backgammon!
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.