And the winners are:
Student Champion – Joash Sajan
Silver Plate – Simon Woodhead
Knockout Round
1st Chris Taylor
2nd Murray Richards
3rd Manfred Deussen
Chris, representing the North Shore BG Club, overcame 66 other BG players to capture 1st place. An epic battle between Chris and Murray. Final score 13-10. There was some heavy cube action with both players being very aggressive throwing the cube at each other. Nip and tuck until Murray was on the bar. Chris had the 6/5 point covered in his home board. The backgammon Gods turned against Murray and he threw 6/5 once, 6/5 twice and 5/5 thirdly. So it goes.
It’s a cruel game.
Congrats to Chris, Murray, Manfred, and congrats to all the participants in the 2023 New Zealand Backgammon Championship.
A good time had by one and all.
Ciao, AJ
NAME, MATCHES WON, TOTAL POINTS
Chris Taylor, 8, 72
Murray Richards, 7, 75
Manfred Deussen, 6, 65
Jason Forsyth, 6, 65
Paul Kellett, 6, 46
James Noble, 5, 50
Joseph Heled, 5, 49
Ned Bartlett, 4, 43
Richard Theunissen, 4, 38
Tony Meyer, 4, 37
Fred Fuglistaller, 4, 34
Grant Hoffman, 4, 33
Peter Ware, 4, 32
Julie Hillis, 3, 39
Ivo Zarnic, 3, 35
Morte, 3, 35
Guy Burns, 3, 31
Richard Bean, 3, 31
Carlinda Roberts, 3, 29
Chris Forsyth, 3, 29
Tyson Oberndorfer, 3, 28
Cedric Marchant, 3, 27
Liz Jackson, 3, 27
Craig Fairbanks, 3, 26
Simon Woodhead, 3, 26
Will Morgan, 3, 26
Lance Preston, 3, 25
Nasser Faraji, 3, 25
Alan Abel, 3, 24
Salar Ghazi, 3, 24
Greg Forsyth, 2, 30
Joash Sajan, 2, 29
Brian Lewis, 2, 28
Steve Rudhal,l 2, 27
Doug Thompson, 2, 24
Sam Siave, 2, 24
Dermot Murtagh, 2, 23
Malcolm Forsyth, 2, 23
Achim Schimmel, 2, 22
Carl Dell, 2, 21
Amanda Cron, 2, 20
George Dumitrache, 2, 20
Lary Larkin, 2, 19
Simon Murtagh, 2, 18
Aidan D’Lima, 2, 17
Tony Gibbons, 1, 26
Ian McAdam, 1, 24
Osama Elbeltagi, 1, 21
Petra Schimmel, 1, 21
Paula Southgate, 1, 20
Jeniffer Jameson 1 17
Kem Mason, 1, 17
Anthony Marquette, 1, 16
Peter Arcilla, 1, 16
Nima Nekooei, 1, 15
Shahin Khayami, 1, 13
Luka Kalinik, 1, 11
Riley Watson, 1, 11
Mario Vigorelli, 0, 17
Allister D’Lima, 0, 11
