The UK Backgammon Federation
As the UK and France celebrate the countries’ co-operation during the Second World War with the visit of President Macron to Westminster, another example of the Entente Cordiale has broken out across the backgammon board.
A team of some of the best players in the UK will be pitting their backgammon wits and talents against a team from across La Manche this weekend.
Last year in Bradford our newly-formed women’s team took up the challenge from their counterparts and played a competitive match of seven 11-pointers (one each). They put up a very good fight and lost by the narrowest of margins; this year a rematch was scheduled to happen as part of the London Open. Of course virus restrictions meant that a face to face match was impossible, but that didn’t mean we couldn’t go ahead online…
It was at the start of the year that I took over from Tim Cross as the UK online team captain. These were considerable boots to fill given he had just helped steer the squad of himself, Seb Wilkinson, Gaz Owen, Leo Waters and myself to the title of EBIF online team champions in 2017.
Team UK – for this event, Lawrence Powell, Tim Cross, Raj Jansari, Sebastian Wilkinson and Eric McAlpine – continued its drive towards domination of the international backgammon scene with another superb performance at the Nordic Open team event, winning the double-elimination tournament outright and undefeated!
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