Dear backgammon friends,
First of all, from myself, and on behalf of BGFed.be, our federation, my best wishes for
~ a splendid 2023 ~
Our desires, of course, include your best of luck with all sorts of doubles in the beginning of the game and mainly double 5’s & 6’s in the bear-off.
I hope (and I’m pretty sure) you can handle these rolls valuably!
I thank particularly Johan Segers (rating list & website), Michel Lamote (articles & Red Beaver League), Toon Van Herreweghen (Ludite), Chantal Lensen (org. Brussels), Bert Van Kerckhove (org. Ghent), Henri Pollet (org. Leuven), Pascal Vanneste (org. Brugge), Johan Huyck (national teams).
Please, take a (regular) look at our website, where you’ll find some recent articles & photo’s, the rating list and other results and rankings.
Besides the 4 Cubes (interclub competition) and the Red Beaver League (UBC-style individual competition), BGFed.be tournaments include :
- Brugge club evening (contact Pascal Vanneste +32 497 41 03 20)
- Ghent club evening, every Tuesday evening at Union-Sandeman, Kantienberg 5, 9000 Ghent
- Leuven Monthly and Leuven Club Championship, organized on Sunday afternoons in Squash Club de Vaart, Kolonel Begaultlaan 15, 3012 Wilsele (starting at 12:45 on January 8, 2023, see announcement)
- Brussels club evening, every Wednesday Au Bassin, Baksteenkaai 74 Quai Aux Briques, 1000 Brussels (starting at 19:00 on January 11, 2023)
- Vlissingen Masters, January 14-15, 2023 (contact Paulus van Rooijen +31 6 53 27 68 35, see flyer)
- Belgian Individual Championship, in Royal Orée, Verbrandendreef 59 Drève des Brûlés, 1150 Sint-Pieters-Woluwe on June 24-25, 2023 (contact Guy Van Middelem +32 476 41 86 88, see flyer)
- Belgian Backgammon Beach Day, in Restaurant Villa Marie Joseph, Westende on September 10, 2023 (contact Johan Brisaert +32 497 15 52 82)
- Ghent Open (around March/April)
- Leuven Open on November 12, 2023
We’ll meet on all these occasions and you can improve your rating (which changes every week).
Keep on rolling,
— Guy
