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:
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 |
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.
The T system, which is used by many clubs and Directors in the world is now available not only through the Turkish server, but also through a German server, accessible at: http://tsystem.world-backgammon-association.com.
Tournament Directors who have access with their login and password can choose either server to run their events.
Both servers contain the same software and setting options and offer the same features to all.
So everyone knows backgammon, played with 2 dice. But who knows and enjoys SassanGammon, the variation played with 3 dice?
One die is rolled by each player for the toss. The winner of the toss plays the opening roll. From there onwards, a player rolls with 3 dice and his opponent takes away 1 die, leaving him the 2 others to play.
Exception: When a player has a checker or more on the bar, he rolls with 2 dice and plays them.
Try it, you´ll love it !