It’s been a great couple of days and I’m afraid staying glued to the live stream has taken priority over writing about it! A fuller report of the event will come later, but for now, here’s the headlines:
Archives for October 2016
Team UK reach the European semi-finals…
What a difference a year makes! In 2015 we were the plucky underdogs finding our feet in the European Team Championships. This year Team UK go into the “rest day” – well, the day devoted to the individual tournament instead – as one of four semi-finalists…

Announcing: The West Yorkshire Open 2017
Second in our series of tournament announcements – we’re delighted to tell you about the West Yorkshire Backgammon Open 2017. This will be held on April 21-23 at Clayton Village Hall, Bradford, with Steve Lee and Tim Cross directing. We are hoping this will be the third stage of the UK Tour next year – more about that in due course…

UKBGF Election Results
Voting ended a few minutes ago for the UKBGF Elections at 6 p.m. UK time. In total 169 people voted. The last vote was cast at 5:34 p.m.
The votes have been counted and I am very pleased to be able to announce the results.
The new Board of the United Kingdom Backgammon Federation will be:
• Peter Bennet
• Julia Hayward
• Raj Jansari
• Tim Cross
• Anna Clarke
• Simon Morecroft
• Tony Lezard
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