Looking for ways to improve my own game, five years ago I started a Facebook group where we could discuss and play against ExtremeGammon. I started it as a continuous money game, like a giant chouette except XG was always in the box and I don’t keep individual scores.
The UKBGF League season 1 finale
To set the scene… Season 1 of the UKBGF league drew to a close this week, fifty-seven divisions of 6 players makes an awful lot of backgammon! The final match to be played in Division 1 was played on the final day. At that point Gaz Owen was already the inaugural champion, on points difference, and one relegation place had been decided. But various permutations of outcomes for the rest were still possible, with the winner of this match having an eye on reaching second place, and the loser having to avoid a heavy defeat in order to avoid the drop.
Stuart Mann (Stuby) vs Tim Cross (Timster)
UKBGF League Div 1: 25th March 2021
by David Potter
Watch the match here.
I was fortunate enough to sit in on the streaming of this match between Stuart and Tim. Our commentator was Chris Bray, who is also in Division 1. Chris, in case you didn’t know, is a leading British player, The Times backgammon columnist, author of many backgammon books and teacher. He gave such expert analysis of the match, and so quickly. I could barely keep up.
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The Memorial Tournament 2021
This was the second year Backgammon London put on the Memorial Tournament, and this time it took place online over the last weekend of February. To add to the excitement were extra prizes – including a bespoke Katgammon set of backgammon accessories for the winner – with a third consolation and, by popular request, a last chance. We also had side pools with 100{abc34b451427cab195a45b5089e4b340f2f9f65c5c385218058b2ce44334f033} return that reached £3350.
2020 UK Open – the biggest online backgammon tournament ever?
The 7th UK Backgammon Open was held online this year over the three days of the late August bank holiday weekend. It was a true celebration of backgammon not only for the UK but, with a record 22 nationalities taking part (24 if you include Scotland and Wales), also for the world of backgammon. We had a total of 181 players of which 155 were UKBGF Members competing for: two $995 P40 boards; a €500 entry package to a top European tour event; a £500 Geoffrey Parker Professional roll-up travel board; hotel and registration at next year’s UK Open Masters; hotel and entry at next year’s London Open Intermediates; commented match and lessons from Backgammon Workshop; and high street store vouchers.
With these prizes on offer for a total outlay of either £15 or £10, it’s not surprising that we attracted 113 players in the Masters flight and 78 in the Intermediates. We had deliberately kept the cost of entry low to encourage as many players as possible to take part.
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