Backgammon clubs appear to be like London buses at the moment, with three more appearing recently. First up the North East Backgammon Association, who meet monthly on the first Monday at the County in Gosforth. With 11 members in August and new faces appearing in September, things appear to be very healthy! Next meeting: 5th October.
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In the Members’ Area today…
A win from the seemingly unwinnable position in which your opponent has borne off twelve checkers and has just three checkers remaining on his two-point. You bravely maintain contact with a single checker on his one-point and deploy your other fourteen checkers where they can contain his checkers if you are able to hit one or, preferably, two of them. Winning a coup classique is especially satisfying for you and maddening for your opponent.”
Over in our collection of articles, Ray Kershaw takes a Peek at the Coup Classique – a well known position where points can be picked up if you’re prepared to brave the possibility of being backgammoned. And Jon Barnes has been rolling out an extensive set of positions for Final Contact – how accurate is your cube handling when about to break contact with your opponent’s anchor?
We’ve also updated our calendar to include the Backgammon Masters Series tournaments for 2016, which by popular demand are expanding from 16 to 24 seats, and watch this space for plenty more events next year!
Want to write for UKBGF.com? We’d like to hear from you, whether it’s about strategy, rules, experiences of the game, opinions … send submissions to julia@ukbgf.com .
UKBGF Rules Subcommittee
Dear Backgammon Player,
The Board of the UKBGF has established a Rules Subcommittee to be the guardians of our rules. This subcommittee will have 5 members.
This subcommittee is appointed by the board and will serve for an initial 18 month period.
The initial members of the subcommittee are Raj Jansari, Peter Bennet, Julia Hayward, Eric McAlpine and Jon Barnes.
Any UKBGF member (including Board and subcommittee members) may propose a new rule or rule change to the subcommittee. The subcommittee will consider the rule change and vote on it. Rule changes will be made by majority decision. The Rules Subcommittee will meet (either in person or using technology) at least quarterly.
Our current rules are available here: https://ukbgf.com/backgammon-resources/#rules
Proposed rule changes/amendments should be made in writing to contact@ukbgf.com
Any rule changes/amendments that are passed by a majority vote will be immediately incorporated into the UKBGF rules.
A record of proposed changes and whether they have been accepted or rejected will be published quarterly by the Rules Subcommittee.
Please note that this is the only way that UKBGF rules will be changed. I hope that you will engage in this process if you have ideas on how our rules can be improved.
Yours,
Sean Williams
Chair
United Kingdom Backgammon Federation
The Battle in Budapest: UK face a furnace of competition
New Clubs Start-up Grants – is this the encouragement you need?
The UKBGF has a long list of objectives, but the central theme has to be “growing the game”. After all, if we can’t aspire to this, what is the point of our existence?
One of our initiatives, to which we will be giving greater prominence from now on, is the new clubs start-up scheme, where we allocate funds to aiding new – or newish – clubs with a view to giving them a boost in their formative stages.
A grant of £100 is arguably not going to change the world for a new club as it looks to become established. However it certainly can’t hurt, and it may provide a focal point as clubs seek a little direction.
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