Registration is now open for the UKBGF’s flagship tournament, the UK Open, which returns to Woodland Grange near Leamington over the bank holiday weekend of 23rd-26th August. What better way to spend a bank holiday than complaining about poor dice and lucky opponents? Please sign up here to the Masters or Intermediates flight.
The Members’ Top 100, December 2023
As the new year rolls in, it’s time for us to update our annual snapshots of the Members’ Top 100.
So, who ranks as our overall number one player? Read on…
The UKBGF adopts the latest WBGF rules
Earlier this year the World Backgammon Federation (WBGF) published a revised set of rules, which has already seen use at the World Team Championships and other WBGF-sanctioned events, and adoption by a number of other federations. the UKBGF Board has decided to adopt them with effect from January 1st, 2024, in time for the 2024 UK Tour. You can download them here as a PDF.
The 2023 Charity Challenge – sign up now!
We’re delighted to invite you to register for the 2023 Charity Challenge! Registration is open now and closes at 10pm, December 15th. This year we’ll be using Backgammon Hub to do the draws and keep you all in touch with each other (so the colourful spreadsheet will not be making a comeback), but the format will be the familiar one – multiple-elimination Swiss, starting with five lives. Each round involves an 11 point match. We’ll do the draw for the first round as soon after the close of registration as possible. Lose a match, lose a life! After that, we pair people up with opponents who have similar numbers of lives left; everyone still with lives intact gets another opponent every two weeks until we are left with just the one champion. Matches can be played on Heroes if you both prefer, and the room there will be open throughout the tournament. If you happen to get an opponent who is close to you – or who really likes travelling – you can even play in real life…
2022-3 winner Geoff Hall
Backgammon in Palmers Green
Tad Collins writes:
Hi all,
I just thought I’d write a few words about my local pub tournament in Palmers Green as it may well be a little under-the radar for a lot of you and to clear up some confusion as it is a the ‘offspring’ of another tournament (more of which later).
We play weekly on Wednesday nights at The Alfred Herring pub and it is a £10 KO tourney with consolation ably run by Chris Hamilton . There are no registration charges and all match results are entered by Chris to the UKBGF database. The matches are 5 points and one nice thing is there are some newer players as well as older faces.
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