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The British Backgammon Awards Nominees 2018

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Many thanks to everyone who took the time to send in nominations for the British Backgammon Awards. We’re now in a position to announce the shortlists. All the awards are really competitive and just being nominated is something to be proud of.

British Player of the Year:

  • Aref Alipour
  • Jon Barnes
  • Peter Bennet
  • Sebastian Wilkinson
  • Steve Bibby
  • Tim Cross
  • Yan Kit Chan

International Player of the Year:

  • Akiko Yazawa
  • Carter Mattig
  • Michy
  • Mochy
  • Nodar Gagua

Tournament Director of the Year:

  • Keith Gill
  • Kev Jones, John Wright and Mark Calderbank
  • Richard Biddle
  • Rick Janowski, Benia Kuczynska and Mark Adkins
  • Simon Morecroft
  • Steve Lee
  • Tim Line and Ian Tarr

Club Organiser of the Year:

  • Chris Purchase
  • Ian Tarr
  • Kevin Jones
  • Richard Biddle
  • Sean Jones
  • Sean Thomas

Most Significant Contributor to British Backgammon of the Year:

  • Julia Hayward
  • Mark Calderbank
  • Richard Biddle
  • Tim Cross

Board Designer of the Year:

  • Andrew Pinkus
  • Bone Club
  • Erhan 869bg
  • Geoffrey Parker
  • P40

Most Courteous / Sporting Player:

  • Andrew Selby
  • Anna Price
  • Bek Barbaros
  • CJ Uttley
  • Dave Pritchard
  • Derek Cooper
  • Gaz Owen
  • Lawrence Jones
  • Lawrence Powell
  • Michael Flesch
  • Peter Bennet
  • Sue Keeble

Voting is about to start on SurveyMonkey, and a link to access the voting page will be mailed out to members imminently. If you don’t receive yours or need assistance, drop julia@ukbgf.com a line. Voting will close at midnight on Friday 24th August and the winners will be revealed at the UK Open! To give you some help, Tim has penned some biographies of our leading players; read on…

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A new club is born: St Annes Backgammon Club

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Ian Squire writes:
Hi,
My name is Ian Squire and I live in the small seaside town of Lytham St Annes, Lancashire. Having learned to play backgammon about ten years ago I taught my son Oliver to play and we played occasional games at home. Oliver showed a keen interest and began studying the game, watching the masters play on YouTube etc and reading and developing his strategy.

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A Rules Situation Update

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Some time back, the UKBGF Rules sub-committee spent quite a lot of time reviewing and considering the Rules amendment suggestions it had received since the currently existing Rules version was finalised. Six clarification amendments were agreed upon and were due to be considered further by the EUBGF for further implementation across all member nation federations.

Since that time however, further discussions began to take place and are currently ongoing with more federations outside Europe, most notably the USBGF, with the aim of achieving a unified globally accepted set of Rules.

Simultaneously, the EUBGF has started off the process of evolving into the World Backgammon Federation (WBGF) in order to, amongst other things, unify the game of backgammon generally.

In light of these developments, the implementation of a further set of amendments at this time isn’t felt to be helpful in achieving the global aims.

Having said the above, the clarification amendments previously agreed upon by the UKBGF Rules sub-committee will not be discarded but will be put forward once the global position becomes clearer and in fact will be supplemented by further suggestions that have been received directly by the UKBGF/EUBGF/WBGF in the interim.

We will keep you further informed about the global developments at this very exciting time for backgammon at the international level.

For the avoidance of doubt, please note that the WBGF is a different organisation to the WBF.

The UKBGF AGM 2018

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The UKBGF will be holding its second Annual General Meeting at 5pm on Friday 31st August, at Coombe Abbey – that is, prior to the dinner with Akiko Yazawa, and the Warm Up event at the UK Open. The meeting should be finished in plenty of time for players who want to take part in the Warm Up. This is an opportunity to the Board to report directly to members and for members to put motions and questions to the board in a formal setting. We hope that members will take the opportunity to join us.

Last year’s meeting was well attended and some interesting discussions took place; this year there will be elections for the next Board coming up and if you’re thinking of standing for election and want to find out more about how the Board work before making a decision, it would definitely be a good idea to come along.

Motions to be put at the meeting need to be sent to the Chair, julia@ukbgf.com by 12th August 2018 so that they can be distributed to members in advance. Detailed questions can be sent in beforehand, also to the Chair and by the same date, to give time for an answer to be prepared; we will do our best to handle questions on the day as well.

Agenda

  • Welcome and introductions
  • Apologies
  • Chairman’s report
  • Treasurer’s report and presentation of accounts
  • Motions from members
  • Pre-notified questions from members
  • Questions from the floor
  • Any Other Business
  • Chairman’s closing remarks

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