Your UKBGF membership just got a whole lot better……
ArtGammon and the UK Backgammon Federation have joined forces for an exciting sponsorship deal for 2023!
We are delighted to announce that respected Turkish board maker ArtGammon has teamed up with the UKBGF to provide sponsored boards and prizes for our members throughout 2023 including:
- Streaming Board for use at any UKBGF Tour event
- Winners and Runners-Up Prize Boards (Masters and Intermediates) for the Tour Winners Invitational 2023
- Prize Boards for The UK Open 2023 (Masters and Intermediates) stretching to Consolation and Last Chance events – including a special Championship Board for the Masters Winner
- Prize Boards for the National Online Championships
- Prize Boards for the National Youth Championships, both Online and Live
- Prize Boards for The UK Clubs Championship Winning Team 2023
- Ten Prize Boards for the UKBGF Online League & Cup 2023
- A UKBGF Member Discount of 10% applies to all ArtGammon products purchased directly from ArtGammon (mention your UKBGF membership when you enquire)
- Supplemental accessories as further prizes
Working in conjunction with both Aydin Kolcak, a hugely enthusiastic London based UKBGF member, and Ufuk Bozkurt, founder/owner of ArtGammon, we believe we have found a like-minded partner for 2023 and hopefully beyond. This new partnership will create huge added value for our membership.
ArtGammon offer a wide variety of high quality, custom made, board styles and colour options. Their boards feature a special synthetic sewn cloth chosen for durability, stain resistance and unmatched playing characteristics and quality polyester or metal-ringed checkers.
Each UKBGF prize winner will receive a board manufactured to a specific UKBGF winners design for 2023, thereby providing a lasting record of their notable achievement; a prize to use and be proud of for many years.
The images are of prototype boards fresh off Ufuk’s desk!
Roll on 2023…
Reciprocally, we see this as a worthy reward to you the members for your support and community spirit in helping grow the game we all love within the UK and, for fear of sounding like a broken record, our extent of clubs, tournaments, membership numbers, online league, all with their consistently high support are a source of envy throughout the backgammon world.
We wish you all well over the festive season and a truly happy and healthy 2023.
It’s a great partnership. Thanks to Mr. Aydin Kolcak! I played with these boards before and I am amazed by the quality.
I’ve seen several of these boards brought back from Turkey, and they’re extraordinary in quality and appearance. In terms of value, also remarkable, in comparison with the luxury end of the market. The accessories are high quality too, altho the metal ‘space age’ cubes (see the ArtGammon website), whilst striking, are not to my taste. All that needs to happen now is for Aydin to sharpen up his doubling game a bit…
I wasn’t going to be the first to mention the quality of ArtGammon products in case it prompted accusations of bias! But Graham is right…the attention to detail and build quality of these boards is amazing in relation to their price. And in my limited discussions with Aydin so far, he couldn’t be more helpful and attentive. Well done Andrew for brokering such a great partnership!