We posted a Yuletide poser on the cube action for this position:
And here’s the answer…
Archives for December 2024
The 2024 Tour Winners
The results are in for the Players Championship, which concludes the UKBGF Tour 2024, and it’s time to announce our cumulative winners!
Yuletide quiz
Goldilocks and the Three Bears made their first appearance at the North London Backgammon Tournament this week. Goldilocks was late so only played in the Chouette where she had the position above. “This one is easy,” said Goldilocks. “What is the cube action?
The Players Championship, Cecil Sharp House, London, 14-15 December, 2024
Super Sara Sparkles
The suave presence and insouciant charm of Sara Sathyanandha cast a long spell over a magnificent Players’ Championships where folks are offered up to six tournaments over the two days in what is a merrily hectic affair. All gets resolved although the structure to find the winner remains a work in progress. We’ll get there, but the requisite for Dan Rovira to win 10/10 matches in a 128 draw was cruel and unusual punishment. More on that later, but let us savour the remarkable festival in that we enjoyed in Cecil Sharp’s majestic main hall.
The UKBGF Tours 2024 and 2025
We are coming to the conclusion of another exciting and competitive UKBGF Tour in 2024. Many of the Top 16 places in both the Masters & Intermediate Tours are known and those players will receive an invitation to the Tour Winners Invitational (TWI) event in January 2025. However, a number of places are still up for grabs in the final tour event of the year The Players Championship in London. Quite remarkably, three players have won two events each, so there will be plenty of points-based TWI entries this year.
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