2011 | |||
Monte Carlo World Championship, 15 - 23 July 2011 | |||
Finale | Takumitsu Suzuki (JPN) vs. Fabio Gullotta (ITA) |
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After one year break the title World Champion of Backgammon goes to Japan again. "Is Japan the new Denmark?" was asked in Stick's Forum. |
Halbfinale | Takumitsu Suzuki (JPN) vs. Masayuki Mochizuki (JPN) |
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Halbfinale | Paul Weaver (USA) vs. Fabio Gullotta (ITA) |
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2010 | |||
Monte Carlo World Championship, 11 - 18 July 2010 | |||
Finale | Lars Bentzon (DEN) vs. Ricardo Malas (ESP) |
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2009 | |||
Monte Carlo World Championship, 12. - 19. Juli 2009 | |||
Finale | Mochy (JPN) vs. Lars Trabolt (DEN) |
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Lars Trabolt, world champion 2008, reached the final again in 2009, but the Japanese Masayuki Mochizuki, aka Mochy, who is well known for his extremely low error rates, managed to become the first backgammon world champion from Japan! |
2008 | |||
Monte Carlo World Championship, 07 - 13 July 2008 | |||
R16 | Achim Müller (GER) vs. Jon Kristian Royset (NOR) |
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Achim Müller, a strong player from Germany, playing at a very good error rate in this round against former world champion Royset from Norway. Achim Müller later reached the semi-final, where he lost against Mario Sequeira. |
New York Metropolitan Open (ABT), 10 - 14 Jan 2008 | |||
Final | John O'Hagan (USA) vs. Mike Senkiewicz (USA) |
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WSOB Nordic Open, Helsingör, 19 - 24 March 2008 | |||
R64 | Torben Krogh (DEN) vs. Hans Kr. "Kedde" Mathiesen (DEN) | .txt | Nearly 400 players, 152 of them in the champions flight, made the Nordic Open 2008 the probably biggest backgammon tournament in 2008 worldwide. "Kedde" Mathiesen made it into the finals, where he lost against Tassilo Rzymann (AUT). Have a look at some photos of the tournament. |
CONS, Final | Karsten Bredahl (DEN) vs. Masayuki 'Mochy' Mochizuki (JPN) | .txt | Mochy is playing this match probably with the lowest error rate of the whole tournament. |
2007 | |||
19th European Championships, Velden | |||
Final | Werner Schmuck (AUT) vs. Zbigniew Szczerek (POL) |
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Monte Carlo World Championship | |||
Final | Jorge Pan (ARG) vs. Alvario Savio (BRA) | .txt |
With kind permission of
GammonLife.
In the last game of the match there was some confusion about one roll. Read the details in the header of the match file 2) . |
Semifinal | Alvario Savio (BRA) vs. Richard Munitz (USA) | .txt |
With kind permission of GammonLife. |
Round 1 | Achim Müller (GER) vs. Norbert Wiebusch (GER) | .txt |
Both players played very strong! More about the match and some impressions of the World Championships on Achim Müller's Monte Carlo 2007 Blog. |
Nordic Open | |||
Final | Norbert Wiebusch (GER) vs. Thomas Jespersen (DEN) |
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The Nordic Open were held in a different format this year, so the final consisted of two matches, a 25-pointer (#1) and a all-deciding 9-pointer (#2), both won by the Dane Thomas Jespersen. |
UK Masters, London | |||
Final | Christian Plenz (GER) vs. John Hurst (GBR) | .txt |
Despite having played better, Christian Plenz lost his final match. |
QF | Christian Plenz (GER) vs. Piergiorgio&xnbsp;D'Ancona (ITA) | .txt |
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2006 | |||
4th Barriere Backgammon Open d´Enghien-les-Bains | |||
Consultation Doubles, Round unknown | Tardieu/Rived (FRA) vs. Humke/Rümcker (GER) | .txt .sgf |
With kind permission of the WBA. |
Monte Carlo World Championship | |||
Final | Luigi Villa (ITA) vs. Philip Vischjager (NDL) | .txt |
Luigi Villa, World Champion of 1979, makes it into the finals again 27 years later, but gets defeated by Philip Vischjager 23:25. |
SF | Andreas Humke (GER) vs. Luigi Villa (ITA) | .txt |
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R32 | Matvey "Falafel" Natanzon (ISR) vs. Lawrence Powell (GBR) | .txt |
Excellent play by "Falafel". |
Nordic Open | |||
Final | Athanasios Lagopatis (GRE/GER) vs. Morten Holm (DEN) | .txt .sgf |
A FIBSter (Nick: Sakis) wins the Nordic Open 2006, after defeating a.o. Mochizuki Masayuki, Francois Tardieu and Claus Cato. Congrats Sakis!!! |
Round 1 | Neil Kazaross (USA) vs. Francois Tardieu (FRA) | .txt | |
Sapporo Open 2006 | |||
Final | Kageyama "Michy" Michihito (JPN) vs. Kiyokazu Nishikawa (JPN) | .txt |
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2005 | |||
Aix Les Baines | |||
Round 1 | Harald Johanni (GER) vs. Serge Rived (FRA) | .txt |
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SJ, Final | Tore Eklund Fredriksen (NOR) vs. Ed O'Laughlin (USA) | .txt |
A real quicky - cube to 8, gammon. Match over in one game. Very low error rates by both players. |
Las Vegas Open | |||
SJ, Final | Sander Lylloff (DEN) vs. Matvey "Falafel" Natanzon (ISR) | .txt |
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Monte Carlo World Championship | |||
Final | Dennis Carlston (USA) vs. John O'Hagan (USA) | .txt |
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Round 2 | Ralf Jonas (GER) vs. Francois Tardieu (FRA) | .txt .sgf |
After trailing 9-16 Jonas got back into the match to finally win 17-16. Both players played at a high level with a Snowie error rate around -2,5. |
Nordic Open | |||
Final | Teppo Salo (FIN) vs. Karsten Bredahl (DEN) | .txt | |
QF | Karsten Bredahl (DEN) vs. Brian Elgaard (DEN) | .txt | |
R32 | Steen Grønbech (DEN) vs. Mads Andersen (DEN) | .txt | |
CONS, R32 | Francois Tardieu (FRA) vs. Peter Friberg (DEN) | .txt .sgf |
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17th European Backgammon Championships, Velden | |||
Final | Francois Tardieu (FRA) vs. Werner Schmuck (AUT) | .txt |
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Paris Open | |||
Champions, Final | Lars Bonding (DEN) vs. Yuriy Krivoy (ISR) | .txt |
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2004 | |||
Abu Dhabi | |||
Final | Andreas Humke (GER) vs. Arild Ilsoe (NOR) | .txt | |
Rivieras Challenge 2 Backgammon Tournament, Cannes | |||
Final | Jan Andrew Bloxham (DEN) vs. Andreas Humke (GER) | .txt | |
SF | Andreas Humke (GER) vs. Steve Sax (CAN) | .txt | |
Monte Carlo World Championship | |||
R32 | Hugh McNeil (CAN) vs. Peter Hallberg (DEN) | .txt | Hallberg, though playing less strong than McNeil in this match, finally became World Champion 2004. |
Nordic Open | |||
Final | Jan Bloxham (GBR) vs. Thomas Lenz (GER) | .txt | |
Swedish Open | |||
Final | Atle von der Fehr (NOR) vs. Michael Löfblad (SWE) | .txt | |
2003 | |||
Lucien Barriére Open | |||
Final | Lars Bonding (DEN) vs. Francois Tardieu (FRA) | .txt | |
R08 | Lars Bonding (DEN) vs. Andreas Humke (GER) | .txt | |
R16 | Serge Rived (FRA) vs. Andreas Humke (GER) | .txt | |
Monte Carlo World Championship | |||
Final | Mosche Tissona (ISR) vs. Jon Røyset (NOR) | .txt | |
SF | Jon Røyset (NOR) vs. Katja Svendson (NOR) | .txt | |
2002 | |||
Austrian Open | |||
Masters, Final | Peter Heitmüller (GER) vs. Tobias Hellwag (GER) | .txt .sgf |
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Monte Carlo World Championship | |||
Final | Felix Ziva (ISR) vs. Mads Andersen (DEN) | .txt | |
SF | Jan Bloxham (DEN) vs. Mads Andersen (DEN) | .txt | |
Round 2 | Francois Tardieu (FRA) vs. Malcolm Davis (USA) | .txt | |
Nordic Open | |||
SF | Morten Holm (DEN) vs. Lars Bonding (DEN) | .txt | |
Round 2 | Morten Holm (DEN) vs. Sven Wisløf Nilssen (NOR) | .txt | |
Paris Open | |||
Masters, Round 1 | Paul Magriel (USA) vs. Didier Assaraf (FRA) | .txt | |
Oslo Open | |||
SJ - SF | Atle von der Fehr (NOR) vs. Tore Eklund Fredriksen (NOR) | .txt | |
2001 | |||
49th Indiana Open | |||
SF | Neil Kazaross (USA) vs. Jeremy Bagai (USA) | .txt | Kazaross playing at an error rate below 2.0 here. |
Czech Open, Prague | |||
SF | Volker Sonnabend (GER) vs. Johannes Levermann (GER) |
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Played as "Best of 3". |
Monte Carlo World Championship | |||
Final | Jorgen Granstedt (SWE) vs. Thomas Holm (DEN) | .txt | |
SF | Jorgen Granstedt (SWE) vs. Mario Kühl (GER) | .txt | |
Round 3 | Francois Tardieu (FRA) vs. Richard Persson (SWE) | .txt | |
Round 1 | Harald Johanni (GER) vs. Olivier Decultot (FRA) | .txt | |
Nordic Open | |||
Final | Lars Trabolt (DEN) vs. Lars Klammer (DEN) | .txt |
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QF | Johannes Levermann (GER) vs. Stefan Blancke (GER) | .txt |
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Round 2 | Øystein Johansen (NOR) vs. Kit Woolsey (USA) | .txt .sgf |
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Paris Open | |||
Champions, SF | Jorgen Granstedt (SWE) vs. George Vadiakas (GRE) | .txt | |
Venice | |||
Final | Jakov Nepomniatchy (RUS) vs. Carlo Melzi (ITA) | .txt | |
2000 | |||
Czech Open, Prague | |||
Final | Kent Goulding (USA) vs. Johannes Levermann (GER) |
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Was played as "Best of 3". |
Monte Carlo World Championship | |||
Final | Katie Scalamandre (USA) vs. Thomas Holm (DEN) | .txt | |
Round 1 | Rolf Vetsch (SUI) vs. Jörgen Granstedt (SWE) | .txt .sgf |
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Nordic Open | |||
Final | Steve Wood (GBR) vs. Peter Jes Thomsen (DEN) | .txt | |
CONS - Round unknown | Peter Heitmüller (GER) vs. Harald Johanni (GER) | .txt | |
German Open | |||
Final | Dimitrios Pappas (GER) vs. Johannes Levermann (GER) |
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Was played as "Best of 3". |
Las Vegas Fall Tournament | |||
Final | Mika Lidov (USA) vs. Armando Balbi (ITA) | .txt | |
Paris Open | |||
Champions, Final | Johannes Levermann (GER) vs. Mario Sequeira (POR) | .txt | |
Open Swiss Championships | |||
Final | Roland Ekström (SUI) vs. Rino Mathis (SUI) | .txt | |
1999 | |||
Istanbul | |||
Super Jackpot | Elliott Winslow (USA/DEN?) vs. Jerry Grandell (SWE) | .txt | |
Michigan Summer Tournament | |||
QF | Neil Kazaross (USA) vs. Malcolm Davis (USA) | .txt | Excellent commentary on that match can be found in A. Ortega / D. Kleinman, Backgammon with the Giants - Neil Kazaross |
Nordic Open | |||
SJ - Final | Nack Ballard (USA) vs. Michael Meyburg (GER) | .txt | |
Venedig | |||
Final | Neil Kazaross (USA) vs. Francois Tardieu (FRA) | .txt | This match has been commented very detailed and precise by A. Ortega and D. Kleinman in "Backgammon with the Giants". |
1998 | |||
Monte Carlo World Championship | |||
Final | Michael Meyburg (GER) vs. Elliott Winslow (USA/DEN) | .txt | After 1991 Michael Meyburg becomes World Champion for the second time. |
Istanbul | |||
SJ, SF | Nack Ballard (USA) vs. Jerry Grandell (SWE) | .txt | Superbly commented by Bill Robertie in his book Modern Backgammon. |
1997 | |||
Monte Carlo World Championship | |||
Final | Frederic Banjout (FRA) vs. Jerry Grandell (SWE) |
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Superbly commented by Ortega/Kleinman in their book Jerry Grandell - His Most Important Matches. |
Pittsburgh Championships | |||
LC, Final | Malcolm Davis (USA) vs. Marty Storer (USA) |
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Discussed and commented in Marty Storer's Backgammon Praxis - The Matches of Malcolm Davis Vol. 2. |
St. Moritz Winter Championships | |||
Final | Paul Magriel (USA) vs. Thomas Lumper (GER) | .txt | |
1995 | |||
Nordic Open | |||
QF | Neil Kazaross (USA) vs. Matthias Körner (GER) | .txt | Cube up to 16 in game 4 - not seen very frequently in 19 point matches. |
1994 | |||
FIBS | |||
"Just for fun" | Jeremy Bagai (USA) vs. Kit Woolsey (USA) | .txt | This match was played for the FIBS community. Both players offered a detailed analysis of their match, which is avaiable at Tom Keith's Backgammon Galore (HTML). For replay I offer the match as JellyFish-format here, but without any commentary. |
Monte Carlo World Championship | |||
Final | Frank Frigo (USA) vs. Peter Jes Thomsen (DEN) | .txt | |
Tournament of the Americas | |||
Masters, Final | Mike Senkiewicz (USA) vs. Mike Svobodny (USA) | .txt |
Superbly commented by Ortega, Madrigal and Kleinman in their book Costa Rica 1994 |
1993 | |||
Monte Carlo World Championship | |||
QF | Harald Johanni (GER) vs. Peter Jes Thomsen (DEN) | .txt | |
LC, SF | Shimon Kagan (ISR) vs. Bill Robertie (USA) | .txt .sgf |
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Tournament of the Americas | |||
Masters, Final | Mike Senkiewicz (USA) vs. Wilcox Snellings (USA) | .txt |
Great commentary on that match can be found in Costa Rica 1993. |
Open Division, Final | Tino Lechich (AUS) vs. Hugh Sconyers (USA) | .txt |
In game 1 and 12 Sconyers made an illegal move. Those errors are noted in the JellyFish-file (.txt), so you can re-construct those games over the board, but game 12 can't be imported properly to GNU Backgammon (or any other backgammon software). |
1991 | |||
Championships of Great Britain | |||
Final | Philip Marmorstein (GER) vs. Michael Greiner (GER) | .txt | Commented by Kit Woolsey in his highly recommended book Match Qiz Series: Greiner vs. Marmorstein. |
Monte Carlo World Championship | |||
R08 | Neil Kazaross (USA) vs. Michael Meyburg (GER) | .txt | |
1990 | |||
Monte Carlo World Championship | |||
R16 | Mika Lidov (USA) vs. Hal Heinrich (USA) | .txt | Commented by Kit Woolsey in his highly recommended book Match Qiz Series: Lidov vs. Heinrich. |
R32 | Matthias Pauen (GER) vs. Paul Magriel (USA) | .txt | |
R128 | Grasser (?) vs. Paul Magriel (USA) | .txt | |
World Cup II | |||
Final | Ray Glaeser (USA) vs. Joe Sylvester (USA) | .txt (#1) .txt (#2) .txt (#3) .txt (#4) |
Played as "best of five". |
1989 | |||
German Open | |||
Final | Harald Johanni (GER) vs. Peter Sarzynski (GER) | .txt | |
US Open | |||
Preliminary Match | Nack Ballard (USA) vs. Joe Sylvester (USA) | .txt | Commented by Kit Woolsey in his highly recommended book Match Qiz Series: Ballard vs. Sylvester. |
1988 | |||
Monte Carlo World Championship | |||
Round 3 | Billy Horan (USA) vs. Philip Marmorstein (GER) | .txt | Philip Marmorstein luckily wins against the better playing American Billy Horan, to finally become the first German Backgammon World Champion. In Bachgammon you can't win tournaments without some luck! |
World Cup I | |||
Final | Ray Glaeser (USA) vs. Joe Sylvester (USA) | .txt | This final was played as 41 (in words: forty one!) point match. The players didn't like such mega matches. Therefore the later World Cups (1990 until 1998) were played as "best of five" with shorter matches. |
1987 | |||
Monte Carlo World Championship | |||
Final | Bill Robertie (USA) vs. Jerry Grandell (SWE) | .txt | Here Robertie earns his second title as Backgammon World Champion. |
R16 | Bill Robertie (USA) vs. Evert van Eyck (NDL) | .txt | |
New England Backgamon Club Championships | |||
Final | Bill Robertie (USA) vs. Rick Barabino (USA) | .txt (#1) .txt (#2) .txt (#3) |
Played as "best of seven". Only the first three matches of that series are available.
Superbly commented by Roy Friedman in his book World Class Backgammon - Move by Move. |
2nd Reno Masters Invitational | |||
R16 | Bill Robertie (USA) vs. Nack Ballard (USA) | .txt |
Another "oldie". |
1986 | |||
1st Reno Masters Invitational | |||
Final | Nack Ballard (USA) vs. Howard Markowitz (USA) | .txt |
Match with a high error rate from todays view. Commented by Bill Robertie in his book Reno 86. |
SF | Mike Senkiewicz (USA) vs. Nack Ballard (USA) | .txt |
Though from the pre-bot era, match with a low error rate. Commented by Bill Robertie in his book Reno 86. |
R16 | Paul Magriel (USA) vs. Bill Robertie (USA) | .txt |
A match from the pre-bot era. |
9-Point Match for Money | |||
- | Mike Labins (USA) vs. Joe Russell (USA) | .txt |
The Match was published and commented by Danny Kleinman in his book The Other Side of Midnight. Labins is the author of Competitive Backgammon. |
1984 | |||
Monte Carlo World Championship | |||
SF | Mike Svobodny (USA) vs. J. Rosenberg (?) | .txt | After trailing 6-19 Svobodny fights back to DMP to finally win. He also wins the final to become Backgammon World Champion 1984. |
1981 | |||
Las Vegas Holiday Tournament | |||
Round 4 | Kent Goulding (USA) vs. Michael Maxakuli (USA) | .txt | |
Monte Carlo World Championship | |||
Final | Jow Dwek (USA) vs. Lee Genud (USA) | .txt | After Carol Crawford (1973) Lee Genud was the second woman who became Backgammon World Champion. Commented by Bill Robertie in his book Lee Genud vs. Joe Dwek. |
R32 | Stan Tomchin (?) vs. Chuck Papazian (USA) | .txt | |
1980 | |||
Las Vegas | |||
SF | Mike Senkiewicz (USA) vs. Bill Robertie (USA) | .txt | |
1979 | |||
American Open Backgammon Championship, Las Vegas | |||
Round 4 | Paul Magriel (USA) vs. Billy Eisenberg (USA) | .txt | Commented in Kent Goulding's Backgammon with the Champions, Vol. 1, Nr. 1. |
Computer against World Champion | |||
- | BKG 9.8 vs. Luigi Villa (ITA) | .txt | Hans Berliner, US-american professor for artificial intelligence, asked the freshly-baked Backgammon World Champion Luigi Villa to play a 7-point match against his software BKG 9.8. Villa lost 1:7, though playing much better than the software 3) . |
Monte Carlo World Championship | |||
Final | Jeff Westheimer (USA) vs. Luigi Villa (ITA) | .txt | |
1978 | |||
Chicago Cup | |||
Final | Vlado Dobrich (?) vs. Paul Magriel (USA) | .txt | The tournament was held as "double elimination". With Dobrich coming from the losers bracket, the match starts 5:0 for Magriel. |
1973 | |||
1st British-American Cup Match, London | |||
Table 1 | Joe Dwek (GBR) vs. Barclay Coooke (USA) | .txt | Nation Cup USA vs. Great Britain. Tournament format: 40 games, change of pairing after 20 games. The winner was the team with
the most accumulated points after 40 games. So it was a kind of money game. The dice for both tables were identical, the roll for USA on table 1 was used as
roll for Great Britain on the other table.
Of the overall 40 games only 16 were made public. Overall winner at the end was the USA with a score of 73:64. Published and commented in Barclay Cooke/René Orléan, Championship Backgammon. |
Table 2 | Phillip Martyn (GBR) vs. Walter Coooke (USA) | .txt |
Abbreviations / Footnotes |
Last update: 23rd July 2011 |