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The UKBGF 2020 Tour Guidelines

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For those of you expecting to participate in any part of the new and exciting 2020 UKBGF Tour please note a number of changes to this year’s event.

Firstly, we have two brand new intermediate-only events keeping the total number of Intermediate flight tournaments at five for 2020. The UKBGF are proud and keen to support backgammon at all levels and hope the Intermediate division continues to go from strength to strength with the Intermediate Tour and the 16 places provided to UKBGF members at the annual Tour Winners Invitational (TWI) Finals held in January.

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Cary-Kentaro and the extinction of dinosaurs

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A top backgammon Giant described the recent match series between Cary Hoarty (USA, age 20) and Kentaro Meijo (Japan, age 16) as some of the best backgammon he had ever seen, while world #1 and commentator on the match, Masayuki Mochizuki (Mochy) lamented surely, given their strength at such a young age, he would soon become a dinosaur of the game!

With his Mochy Challenge, hosted by Backgammon Galaxy, the talent of young players is being brought to the fore, and we should all take notice.

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Team UK: The WBGF World Team & Individual Championships

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Martin Barkwill writes:

The WBGF World Team & Individual Championships, Forges-Les-Eaux, France, January 2020

Team UK: Chris, Sebastian, Lawrence, Chris, Martin, Tim, Raj

If ever there were a hard act to follow, it is surely following Tim Cross under whose captaincy the UK team won the Worldwide Team Tournament in Tbilisi in 2016, the Nordic Open team event in 2018 and were runners up in the European Team Championships in 2017.

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Backgammon Ayr

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Jules Smith writes about how one of Scotland’s growing number of clubs got started…

Between the years of 1980 and 1985, Jules Smith was working at the Rolls-Royce factory in Patchway, Bristol. One of his colleagues, Ian Tarr, who went on to form the highly respected club “Bristol Backgammon”, was the first person who introduced Jules to the game. [Read more…]

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