Memorial 2021

This was the second year Backgammon London put on the Memorial Tournament, and this time it took place online over the last weekend of February. To add to the excitement were extra prizes with a third consolation and, by popular request, a last chance. We also had side pools with 100% return that reached £3350.

The Memorial Tournament was devised as a way to celebrate the great backgammon friends we have recently lost, and perhaps also, to remember the people struggling at the difficult current time. Along with the Wayne Felton Trophy for the Main winner, there were four Erhan competition boards and four of the popular Silverman boards as headline prizes and Backgammon Workshop lessons for our Consolation finalists. Not bad for a £20 entry.

Registration was full pretty soon after opening. The unique Backgammon London format started on Saturday when all 128 players competed for the Sunday 32 player Main by trying to win three out of a possible five matches. Those not making the main went into one of two Consolations on Sunday.

Sunday started of with three competitions, the Main with 32 players and two Consolations with 48 players. After the first round, Main losers went into a Consolation and Consolation losers went into the Last Chance. It sounds pretty complicated but David had created a spreadsheet which handled it all. Now there were four simultaneous knockouts running plus an extra Consolation for people being knocked out from the Main. I don't think anyone could complain that they didn't get enough backgammon. In all, we had nearly 400 matches played. A big thank you goes out as ever to Jill Gibbs who entered all those results as they were reported on WhatsApp.

Our Main final started exactly on time with Gaz Owen and Steen Oernvig. It was not easy getting there. Congratulations go to Gaz on his success in the final.

First Place Second Place

Main: Gaz Owen Steen Oernvig

Consolation 1: Barry Gittleman Marius Marin

Consolation 2: Cato Fordham Steve Fitton

Consolation 3: Simon Gasquoine Chris O'Connor

Last Chance: Dave Pritchard Martyn Hamer


There are some live streams of selected matches from both days available to watch.

Saturday:

Anna Clarke vs Geoff Hall with Simon Barget

Cat Bucar vs Simon Carter with Julian Fetterlein and Aref Alipour

Sunday:

Mike Shewry vs Gaz Owen (Semi Final) followed by Gaz Owen vs Steen Oernvig (final) with Julian Fetterlein and Justin Nowell

Memorial 2021

On Saturday there was a playoff to get into the main on Sunday. 32 players qualified and all the other players went into the Consolations on Sunday. Play was on Backgammon Heroes

Erhan 869

Silverman board

Katgammon Set

Registered

  1. Adrian Farthing 10

  2. Afshin Foulad 10 20 50

  3. Alistair Ketner 10 20

  4. Alex Hannam 10

  5. Alex Ward

  6. Alexander Polden

  7. Alexandru Pascu 10 20 50

  8. Andrew Selby 10 20 50

  9. Andy Boysan 10 20

  10. Anna Clarke 10 20

  11. Anna Price 10 20

  12. Arda Findikoglu

  13. Barry Gittleman 20

  14. Brenda Rosen

  15. Brendan Burgess

  16. Brian Lever

  17. Catalin Bucur 10 20 50

  18. Cato Fordham 10 20 50

  19. Cecilia Sparke 10 20

  20. Charles Hill 10 20

  21. Ching Ho Li

  22. Chris Bray 10 20 50

  23. Chris J Rogers 10 20 50

  24. Chris O’Connor

  25. Christoph Deiter 10

  26. Cristian Cozos

  27. Cynthia Roberts

  28. Dan Pascu

  29. Dan Rovira 10

  30. Danny DeMeester 10

  31. Dave Pritchard 10

  32. David Brown 10 20 50

  33. David Dennis 10

  34. David Morgan

  35. David Sanders (Worcester) 10

  36. David Tulip 10 20

  37. Denby Petitt

  38. Dominic Murgia 10 20

  39. Emad Salib 10 20 50

  40. Eric Maillebiau 10 20 50

  41. Farzin Aarabi

  42. Gaz Owen 10 20 50

  43. Geoff Hall 20

  44. George Jacobs 10 20

  45. George Madgwick 10 20

  46. Gerald Whitehouse 10

  47. Graeme Turner 10

  48. Graham Sievers 10 20

  49. Hazel Boucher

  50. Ian Gwynn 10 20 50

  51. Ioannis Atmatzidis 10 20 50

  52. James T Slomkoski 10 20 50

  53. Jason Champion 10 20 50

  54. Jenny Cooper

  55. Jerry White

  56. John Curran 10

  57. John Horton

  58. Jon Barnes 10 20 50

  59. Julia Hayward

  60. Jysen Quah 10 20

  61. Ken Gibson 20

  62. Kevin Bailey

  63. Kevin Jones 10

  64. Kristian Mills 10 20

  65. Larry Smythe 10 20

  66. Lawrence Powell 10 20 50

  67. Lucy Friedman 10

  68. Malcolm Robertson 10 20

  69. Marius Marin 10

  70. Martin Reade 10 20 50

  71. Martyn Hamer

  72. Matthew Fisher 10

  73. Mike Ireland

  74. Mike Levi

  75. Mike Shewry 10 20

  76. Neculai Axinte 10 20

  77. Neil Shotton 50

  78. Neil Taylor 20

  79. Neil Webb 10 20

  80. Nick Sandqvist 50

  81. Nicky Check 10 20 50

  82. Paul Goldstein 20

  83. Peter Bennet 10 20 50

  84. Peter Falter 10 20

  85. Plamen Sivrev

  86. Radu Ciortan

  87. Richard Carter 10 20

  88. Richard Furborough 10

  89. Richard Halvorsen 10 20 50

  90. Richard McQuillan

  91. Rob Perry 10

  92. Roger Phillips 10

  93. Roland Archer

  94. Romolo Mudu 10 20 50

  95. Rory Pascar 10 20 50

  96. Rosemary Whitehouse 10

  97. Salvador Leong 10 20 50

  98. Sarah Jolliff 10

  99. Saravanan Sathyanandha

  100. Sean Casey 50

  101. Sean Clennell 10 20 50

  102. Sean Jones 10

  103. Simon Carter 10

  104. Simon Fyfe

  105. Simon Gasquoine 10 20 50

  106. Simon Morecroft 10

  107. Steen Oernvig 20

  108. Stephen O'Connor

  109. Steve Allott 10

  110. Steve Bibby 10

  111. Steve Fitton

  112. Steve Lee 10

  113. Stuart Mann 10 20 50

  114. Stuart Whittingham

  115. Sue Kebble

  116. Sue Perks

  117. Suzy Collis 10

  118. Tad Collins

  119. Tariq Siddiqi 10

  120. Tiberiu Bostan

  121. Tim Cross 10 20

  122. Tim Line 10 20 50

  123. Tim Parfitt

  124. Tim Paulden 10 20

  125. Tom O'Connor

  126. Tony Steward

  127. Wayne Joseph 10 20

  128. Zigi Fibert 10