Category Archives: Ratings

In the most recent update of the rating list, Michel Lamote is the first player to have a rating higher than 1900. This is mostly symbolic of course, for the difference between 1895 and 1905 is the same as the … Continue reading →

Suppose Michel Lamote, BIC 2015 champion, and Guy Van Middelem, play a 13-point match. What effect will the outcome of that match have on both players’ ratings? The winner’s rating should go up, of course, and the loser’s rating should … Continue reading →

Welcome to new BGFed.be members Dan Pascu (Hasselt), Nader K. Rad (Leuven), and Gery Vermaut (Leuven). May the odds be ever in your favour.

After playing Brussels Friendly 56 on December 4, Sabrina Vastapana has collected 105 experience points and she enters the main list as the highest-ranked woman – congratulations!

The 7th Leuven Open was responsible for an unusually large activity in the period Nov 22-29. Marc Steyvers, having good runs both at the Thursday Brugge club evening and the Sunday Leuven Open, achieved the week’s biggest rating increase.

The Autumn Series matches have been grouped under the label ‘BMS’. (By the way, the first Winter series has already started: it isn’t that cold yet, is it?) PS: Almost forgotten to mention that someone has broken the rating record … Continue reading →

Winning four 5-point matches in a row at the Brussels Friendly 55 tournament on November 6 was sufficient for Michel Lamote to push the national rating record up to 1834.15. (If you want to watch Michel playing live: just mark … Continue reading →

In the course of the 3rd Brussels Backgammon Day, Michel Lamote improved his own rating record to 1829.08 points. The way in which the match list per event is shown has been improved in the sense that, for instance, for … Continue reading →

A good performance at the Rotterdam Superzondag (the last Sunday of each month, organizer Ed Baars) gives Bert Van Kerckhove’s rating a 25+ boost.