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The UKBGF 2020 Tour Guidelines

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For those of you expecting to participate in any part of the new and exciting 2020 UKBGF Tour please note a number of changes to this year’s event.

Firstly, we have two brand new intermediate-only events keeping the total number of Intermediate flight tournaments at five for 2020. The UKBGF are proud and keen to support backgammon at all levels and hope the Intermediate division continues to go from strength to strength with the Intermediate Tour and the 16 places provided to UKBGF members at the annual Tour Winners Invitational (TWI) Finals held in January.

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Cary-Kentaro and the extinction of dinosaurs

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A top backgammon Giant described the recent match series between Cary Hoarty (USA, age 20) and Kentaro Meijo (Japan, age 16) as some of the best backgammon he had ever seen, while world #1 and commentator on the match, Masayuki Mochizuki (Mochy) lamented surely, given their strength at such a young age, he would soon become a dinosaur of the game!

With his Mochy Challenge, hosted by Backgammon Galaxy, the talent of young players is being brought to the fore, and we should all take notice.

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Tour results: Double helpings

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December saw the final two events on the 2019 Tour. First of all there was the BMAB Christmas tournament – normally BMAB events are truncated round robins where your opponents are known from the start; because this was a special one for the tour the format changed somewhat to be a five-round Swiss with room for 32 players, matches lengthened to 13 points to give the same amount of play as a normal BMAB weekend, essentially guaranteeing a straight knockout for the top place and a final against one other undefeated player in the fifth round. [Read more…]

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