Through participation in the Red Beaver League Qualifiers (RBL Q), ambitious players can gain a place among the RBL Contenders (RBL C).
The two winners of RBL C from season 24-25 will then take on the two lowest-ranked players from RBL in March/April 2025.
The winners of these Relegation/Promotion duels will occupy places (11) and (12) on the RBL 25-26 starting grid.
Michel Lamote (RBL TD)
Four teams have registered for the 4 Cubes 2024, BGFed.be’s league for backgammon clubs in Belgium:
Extending the ladder format of the two previous years, the schedule is as follows:
The team mentioned first plays at home. Teams are kindly requested to show some flexibility in choosing a suitable date.
Good luck to all!
Guy & Johan S.
Hi everyone,
Please find in attachment the RBL 24-25 Kick-off document.
Michel (RBL Tournament Director)
How to make bold and constructive plays even though we’re under pressure? How to show our opponent who’s boss when he thinks he’s got it made? Sadly, this isn’t the theme of our article today. I hope you can still enjoy it…
https://bgfed.be/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Just-sit-still-1.pdf
Is there really a magic solution for this? Read on and find out…
https://bgfed.be/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/How-to-Deal-with-Time-Trouble.pdf
Marc Van Damme is the new RBL Champion and BGFed.be’s 23-24 UBC Champion! He beat last year’s winner Geert Van der Stricht by a tiny margin: 9-9. Marc wins on Overall PR (OPR)
Marc did not receive the RBL trophy on a silver platter. He survived a nailbiter against Bert Van Kerckhove, then beat Michel Lamote in convincing fashion and eventually defeated Geert in a thrilling final, which can be watched on Rain’s YouTube channel.
Geert took two crucial points in M7 with a super 2.90 PR and suddenly had good prospects of retaining his title: 8-6. However, in M8 Marc was able to regain the advantage with a narrow 7-5 win and an equally impressive 2.54 PR: 8-8.
Time pressure was a recurring theme in this contest and M9 was not different. With only a handful of seconds on the clock, Marc was able to stumble over the finish line with a 7-5 victory and a narrow PR loss: 9-9. In the end, it was his fine, but not impressive 4.09 OPR which won him the title as Geert came harrowingly close to a major upset. Geert’s OPR of 4,36 fell only 0.27 PR points short of a major surprise!
A glance at the Final Leaderboard tells us Marc is the deserved winner although it turned out to be a coin toss in the end.
Marc can now rest on his laurels till spring 2025 and Geert will occupy the top spot in RBL 24-25’s start grid.
Congratulations and many thanks to our two best players for an entertaining and instructive Final!
Michel Lamote (tournament director)
On cashing a point when the win isn’t in sight, on migrating our viewpoint as a winning technique, on recognizing simplicity inside complexity – plus an added bit of old-fashioned chess wisdom.
https://bgfed.be/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Too-gammonish-to-take.pdf
The Brussels Black Beard Backgammon club invites you to the Brussels Friendly 103 tournament on Sunday, October 6, 2024 at Royal Orée (Sint-Pieters-Woluwe). All information in the flyers below.
We have a winner: Itzhak Solsky won the Belgian Individual Championship 2024 (Royal Orée, 15-16 July 2024), here receiving the beautiful BIC 2024 trophy from Guy Van Middelem, the organiser of this Belgian top backgammon event.
Congratz Itzhak with your top performance and thank you Guy for all your efforts!
Inge van den Dorpel
Hi everybody,
Are you curious who won the RBL-trophy? Welcome to watch the concluding Match 9 of the RBL Final 2024 between Geert Van der Stricht and Marc Vandamme on YouTube: https://youtu.be/MwLsT_FiEYA
And the champion is…
Enjoy!
Rain
