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18/19 Oct 08 - The 2008 East Coast Movers and Shakers tournament will again be held at the Bangalow Bowling Club at Byron Bay. More details soon.
23/24 Aug 08 - The 25th Newcastle Open will be a two day event held on Saturday and Sunday August 23 and 24 at the Kotara Bowling Club, Howell St, Kotara. Details from the Newcastle Backgammon Club.
1/2/3 Aug 08 - The Australian Open Backgammon Championship at Surfers Paradise, Queensland. Invitation, Programme, Accommodation.
29 Jun 08 - Angie Hambour Tournament, Adelaide, South Australia. Congratulations to TERRY EFTHIMIOU who came from behind [through the last chance] to win the 2008 ANGIE HAMBOUR TOURNAMENT defeating VASSILIOS TOUBAKARIS.
28 Jun 08 - Adelaide - LEAGUE 1st HALF 2008 RESULTS posted here.
28 Apr 08 - Congratulations to Brian Ramsey (mav) for winning Australian FIBS Tournament 42. Runner-up was Tim Hochgrebe (OzDiver).
11 Apr 08 - Congratulations to VASSILIS TOUBAKARIS, 2007 SA BACKGAMMON ASSOCIATION BACKGAMMON CHAMPION. Vassilis overcame Chris Benham 3-9, 9-8, 9-5 in the final.
27 Mar 08 - Congratulations to Brian Ramsey (mav) for winning Australian FIBS Tournament 40. Runner-up was Ian Dunstan (fishy).
25 Mar 08 - Congratulations to Stephen Davey (Double_Or_Nothing) for winning Australian FIBS Tournament 41. Runner-up was Alex Falon (zapper).
28 Feb 08 - Congratulations to Tim Hochgrebe (OzDiver) for winning Australian FIBS Tournament 39. Runner-up was Steve Clarry (clay).
| 23/24 Feb 08 - The Queensland Backgammon Championship was won by (yes, you guessed it!) Paul Weaver. Paul defeated Sydney's Robbie Solomon in a tight, DMP final. Results and photos here. |  |
17 Feb 08 - Backgammon at Georges. Paul Weaver continued his tour downunder with an appearance in Sydney at Georges in Darling Harbour. Paul made it to the semi-finals before succumbing to Mick "The Monster" Dyett. Mick's luck ran out against eventual winner Simon Woodhead [yay!!].
17 Feb 08 - Congratulations to Brian Ramsey (mav) for winning Australian FIBS Tournament 38. Runner-up was Alex Falon (zapper).
| 10 Feb 08 - The 30th SA Open was won by guest of honour Paul Weaver from top local player Chris Benham. The consolation was won by Claudie Tromp from Emil Andrawos. Club President Nick Begakis' report here. Photos here. |  |
26 Jan 08 - Congratulations to Ian Dunstan (larrikin) for winning Australian FIBS Tournament 37. Runner-up was Darren O'Shaughnessy (Rourke).
28 Dec 07 - Congratulations to Darren O'Shaughnessy (Rourke) winner of Australian FIBS Tournament 36. Darren defeated Malcolm Hutson (waldo) in a repeat of T35's final. The consolation was won by Gerry Nugawela (janela) from Kevin Jessup (KevinJessup).
23 Dec 07 - Backgammon at Georges.
12 Dec 07 - Latest Adelaide news including photos and report from the Spring Tournament can be found here.
13 Nov 07 - Tuesday Night Tournaments return to Sydney. See Clubs page for details or download the flier.
| 10/11 Nov 07 - Congratulations to Tony Walker of Newcastle for winning The 2007 East Coast Movers and Shakers Tournament. More details and pictures here. |  |
04 Nov 07 - The 2007 Backgammon Association of SA Spring Tournament was won by John Mclean from Justin Freytag. More details to follow.
04 Nov 07 - Backgammon at Georges. Ask Jay for results.
23 Sep 07 - Backgammon at Georges. Ask Jay for results.
17 Sep 07 - Congratulations to Darren O'Shaughnessy (Rourke) winner of Australian FIBS Tournament 35. Darren defeated Malcolm Hutson (waldo) in the 9pt final. The Consolation was won by Steve Clarry (clay) from Virginia Jones (Loversleap). T36 is open for entries and will run through October/November. Contact me here if you wish to participate or have any questions. $50 added to this tournament!!
19 Aug 07 - Congratulations to Virginia Jones, winner of the 2007 Newcastle Open from last year's winner Alan Cathcart. Report and photos from Rob Disney here.
01 Aug 07 - Half yearly results from the ACT Club courtesy Dr Greg Ash:
Date |
Winner |
Runner-up |
21 May 2007 |
Nye Griffiths |
Steve Walding |
30 April 2007 |
Tom Chrysostomou |
David Berry |
16 April 2007 |
Griff Ware |
David Berry |
2 April 2007 |
Martin Pikler |
Greg Ash |
20 March 2007 |
Tom Chrysostomou |
Griff Ware |
5 March 2007 |
David Berry |
Steve Walding |
12 February 2007 |
David Berry |
Nye Griffiths |
29 January 2007 |
David Berry |
Mick Bungey |
8 January 2007 |
David Berry |
Martin Pikler |
| 08 Jul 07 - Angie Hambour Memorial Tournament, Adelaide, SA. President Nick Begakis writes: "We are pleased to advise the following results from today's Double Elimination Tournament of 15 entrants. SIEGFRIED POHLENZ defeated JOHN McLEAN [11 / 10 & 11 / 3] Third place - GRIETO LUJKE. Consolation Tournament: [16 entrants] JOHN PAPADOPOULOS defeated ANGELO ALI [ 5 / 3]." You can read the full report and see some photos of the winners in the latest Adelaide News. |
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04 Jul 07 - Congratulations to Kevin Jessup, who has again done well in the FIBS 2007 Spring Backgammon Tournament, making the Semi-Final of the Open Main.
01 Jul 07 - Backgammon at Georges. Ask Jay for results.
29 May 07 - Important news for Sydney players.
Sydney Backgammon will not be running tournaments on Tuesday Nights at the Royal Exhibition Hotel until further notice. We are in the process of looking for a new venue near Bondi Junction; this is very exciting as when this is established there will be all types of tournaments to suit beginners to advanced, as well as chouette and fun games. In the meantime, you are still welcome to play chouette on Tuesday nights at the Royal Exhibition Hotel.
Please don’t hesitate to call me if you would like further information or if you would like to have some input: Mimi 0433139557 email: Mimi.28 May 07 - Congratulations to Tim Hochgrebe (OzDiver) winner of Australian FIBS Tournament 34. Tim defeated Malcolm Hutson (waldo) to win his second consecutive tournament. The Consolation was also won for the second consecutive time, by Kevin Jessup from Darren O'Shaughnessy. All the details here and latest ratings here. If you'd like to play in the next tournament, contact me.
27 May 07 - Backgammon at Georges. Ask Jay for results.
28 Apr 07 - Congratulations to Tim Hochgrebe (OzDiver), winner of Australian FIBS Tournament 33 and runner-up Mimi Belleli (GoMimi) . David Kinston and Steve Clarry were semi-finalists. The Consolation was won by Kevin Jessup from Ian Dunstan.
22 Apr 07 - Backgammon at Georges - Congratulations to Daniel Mayoh.
Jay reports: "The starters gun saw 14 people approaching the first hurdle. Naturally the falls at the first hurdle prompted me to run another field of 8 which prolonged the start of the chouette action. Eventually all the favourites fell by the wayside with the final outcome being Daniel triumphing over Zoe with Tom & Stewart being worthy semi-finalists."
09 Apr 07 - Click here for news from Adelaide including photos from the Club Championship Finals.
18 Mar 07 - Backgammon at Georges. Congratulations to Marijo Udovicic and John McAleenan who each won $50 tournaments. Ben Phillips was a runner-up.
17 Mar 07 - Backgammon Association of SA - 2006 Club Championship Results:
The winner of the 1st half 2006 Club Championship is Vassilis (Bill) Toubakaris.
The Winner of the 2nd half 2006 Club Championship is Angelo Ali.
These two extremely competitive and successful players played off in a best of 3, 9 point match final.
The results were as follows.
Game 1: ANGELO 2 - VASSILIS 11 - one to Vassilis
Game 2: ANGELO 9 - VASSILIS 6 - one to Angelo
Game 1: ANGELO 9 - VASSILIS 4 - two to Angelo
Congratulations to our new 2006 Club Champion, ANGELO ALI and our commiserations to Vassilis Toubakaris.
25 Feb 07 - Congratulations to JUSTIN FREYTAG, winner of the 2007 SA Open. Justin defeated VASSILIOS TOUBAKARIS [15 - 8]. The Consolation Tournament was won by JOHN O'GRADY who defeated ELKE LEWANDOWSKI [5 - 3].
11 Feb 07 - The first Sunday meeting of Sydney Backgammon for 2007 saw 18 intrepid players turn up on a stormy Sunday. Congratulations to $50 Tournament Winner Sean Williams and runner-up Marijo Udovicic. Ivor Bitel and Ryan Jones were the semi-finalists. The $30 Tournament was won by Zoe Cunningham from Eva Bitel.
05 Feb 07 - Congratulations to Kevin Jessup for making the quarter-finals of the FIBS 2006 Fall Tournament. The Australian FIBS Tournaments have $50 added this year - T33 is under way now. Details here.
31 Jan 07 - The first million-dollar backgammon tournament in history, organized by Player International Ltd of the UK, was won by Andreas Märtens of Germany, a former billiards player who switched to backgammon. He won $600,400 last Friday afternoon at the Atlantis Resort in The Bahamas by defeating Lasse Hjorth Madsen of Denmark 23-22 in the final match of the 128-player tournament.
You can read the full press release here.
19 Dec 06 - Congratulations to Mimi Belleli, Sydney Backgammon's 2006 Second Half Champion. Marijo Udovicic was runner-up. Final points positions can be found here. Sydney backgammon's Player of the Year for 2006 is Jim Bean.
| 03 Dec 06 - Congratulations to Alex Falon, winner of the 2006 Sydney Backgammon Christmas Tournament - Alex's second consecutive Christmas win! Daniel Mayoh was runner-up in a colourful event. The rest of the results and photos are here. |  |
12 Nov 06 - Congratulations to PETER GEELEN , winner of the 2006 Spring Backgammon Tournament held at the HILTON INTERNATIONAL, ADELAIDE. In second place was BILL TOUBAKARIS and in third place was JOHN McLEAN.
05 Nov 06 - Backgammon at Georges - Congratulations to Marijo Udovicic who defeated organiser Jay Deva in the final. You can read Jay's final report for the year here.
23 Oct 06 - Congratulations to Alex Falon (zapper), winner of Australian FIBS Tournament 32 and runner-up Gerry Nugawela. The Consolation was won by Tim Hochgrebe (OzDiver) from Kevin Jessup.
22 Oct 06 - October tournament at the Royal Exhibition. Congratulations to $50 tournament winner Jay Deva and runner-up Marijo Udovicic. Semi-finalists were Sean Williams and Ivor Bitel. The $20 tournament was won by Gabby Nagata from Max Walker.
08 Oct 06 - Backgammon at Georges - Congratulations to Marijo Udovicic who triumphed over Sean Williams in the $100 tournament. Gary Stavrou defeated Jim Bean in the minor final.
30 Sep 06 - The 2006 East Coast Movers & Shakers Backgammon Tournament
| Congratulations to Newcastle's Chris Newcombe and runner-up Ian Dunstan from Sydney. Report, results and photos here. |  |
17 Sep 06 - September tournament at the Royal Exhibition.
06 Sep 06 - The FIBS 2006 Spring Backgammon Tournament saw a number of Australians and ex-pats in the money. Congratulations to Kevin Jessup and Ross Ladyman who made the quarter finals in the main field. Well known ex-pat Australian Brian McDonald got to the semis and Michael Ginat was runner-up in the Consolation. The FIBS 2006 Fall Backgammon Tournament is open for entries until 08 Oct 06.
05 Sep 06 - WinningBackgammon.info interviewed Philip Vischjager, the ruling backgammon World Champion.In this interview Mr Vischjager tells about his backgammon career and the World Championship in Monte Carlo in 2006. Later he also shares his views where he believes backgammon will be and should be in a few years from now. Finally, the World Champion gives a number advice how one can become a good backgamon player.
The direct link to the interview is:
http://winningbackgammon.info/ten-minutes-with-philip-vischjager
WinningBackgammon.info is an online backgammon portal featuring backgammon strategy guides, news and online backgammon tournament info.
27 Aug 06 - Backgammon at Georges. Congratulations to winner Jim Bean and runner-up Ian Dunstan.
20 Aug 06 - Congratulations to Bruce Parr, winner of the 2006 Newcastle Open and runner-up Virginia Jones. Ivor Bitel and Simon Woodhead shared semi-final honours and the bonus pool. Full report and photos from organiser and Tournament Director Rob Disney:
http://home.pacific.net.au/~rwdiz/OpenDetails.html
http://home.pacific.net.au/~rwdiz/openpics.html
06 Aug 06 - Congratulations to Peter Brown, winner of the Sydney Backgammon Sunday Tournament and runner-up Jim Bean. Full results and photos here.
22 Jul 06 - Congratulations to Alex Falon (zapper), winner of Australian FIBS Tournament 31 and runner-up Ben Phillips . Latest ratings can be found here.
16 Jul 06 - Congratulations to Kim Brown, winner of The 2006 Angie Hambour Double Elimination Tournament, and finalist Bill Toubakaris . The consolation tournament was won by Angelo Ali from Nick Begakis.
02 Jul 06 - Backgammon at Georges.
27 Jun 06 - Congratulations to Jim Bean, Sydney Backgammon's 2006 First Half Champion. Jay Deva was runner-up. Final points positions here.
28 May 06 - Backgammon at Georges - honours were split between Zoe Williams, Michael Samperi and Jay Deva.
28 May 06 - Congratulations to Malcolm Hutson, winner of Australian FIBS Tournament 30 and runner-up Greg Ash .
23 Apr 06 - Easter Backgammon at Georges - congratulations to Jim Bean. Read Jay's report here.
04 Apr 06 - Sydney Backgammon moves to the Royal Exhibition Hotel in Central. Details on the Clubs page.
15 Mar 06 - Congratulations to John McLean, the 2005 Backgammon Association of South Australia Club Champion. Angelo Ali was runner-up.
03 Mar 06 - Congratulations to Darren O'Shaughnessy , winner of Australian FIBS Tournament 29, and runner-up Wally Bartelme .
26 Feb 06 - The 2006 South Australian Open Backgammon Tournament - congratulations to...
Chris Benham
Gabby Nagata
who won both competitions at the inaugural event. Jay's report and photos here. |
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