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
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
Dear RBL participants & BGFed members,
Happy to announce to you all that the conclusion of the RBL Final 2024 between Geert Van der Stricht and Marc Van Damme will be available on YouTube soon!
The Premières will be launched on:
Match 7 : Wed 05/06/2024 at 20:30 CEST – Link: https://youtu.be/OD40aez9i6A
Match 8 : Thu 06/06/2024 at 20:30 CEST – Link: https://youtu.be/ZVF6poDDy_E
Live-chat will be available during these premières, welcome to join! My name is Rain in the chat.
If you aren’t able to watch the premières, then you can of course watch anytime after that. The video’s will remain available on YouTube.
Big respect and thanks to Michel for his infinite efforts the whole RBL-season long.
Big thanks to Geert and Marc for their kind cooperation to make this video-production happening, so we actually all have a front row seat to witness this amazing battle!
Enjoy!
Greetings,
Rain
Hereby presenting you my video’s of the 2nd session of the RBL Final 2024
between the RBL 2023 Champ Geert Van der Stricht and the Challenger Marc Van Damme.
The ‘Premières’ of these 3 new video’s will be going live at:
Sat 18/05/2024 at 20:22 CEST – Match 4 – Link: https://youtu.be/5FMSZhDdft8
Sun 19/05/2024 at 20:22 CEST – Match 5 – Link: https://youtu.be/CCb252DpQ0I
Sun 19/05/2024 at 21:36 CEST – Match 6 – Link: https://youtu.be/bQEgrcX36gA
After each of these ‘Première’-broadcasts, naturally the video’s will remain available anytime on YouTube.
Enjoy!
Greetings,
Rain
Transcribing a backgammon match on XG is not just a chore, but a great way to learn.
Watch how Robin Bilderbeek, aka Rain, enjoys transcribing the first three matches of the RBL Final and provides commentary while doing so. Do not miss the introduction (Video 1) and the Results and Stats at the end of each video.
Match 1: https://youtu.be/Gb7gxkqGT6E
Match 2: https://youtu.be/8goanvAC7t8
Match 3: https://youtu.be/PnmxgTZeFbk
For RBL to have a future it is important that interested players and students of the game learn how to transcribe backgammon matches on XG and how to pick things up while doing so.
In the meantime, have fun watching Geert Van der Stricht and Marc Vandamme lock horns in the 2023-24 RBL Final.
A heap of thanks to Robin for making all this possible. And, rest assured, the videos will get even better as the duel continues.
Michel Lamote, RBL tournament director
The Ghent Backgammon Open XVII on Sunday, February 11, 2024, was streamed live by Rain. The videos can be watched on Rain’s YouTube Channel:

Final between Christian Sørensen and Bert Van Kerckhove, with XG analysis and commentary by Michel Lamote: https://youtu.be/z4djhgNDtFM
Videos brought to you by Robin Bilderbeek (aka Rain).
Robin ‘Rain’ Bilderbeek and Michel Lamote have edited the video of the commentated match between Mochy and Sebastian Wilkinson, with among others additional XG analysis of interesting situations. Great stuff!
Last week, Michel Lamote was invited by the Danish Backgammon Federation to give commentary at their live stream at the Gibraltar Backgammon Championship 2020. Below is the link to the quarter final between Zdenek Zizka en Christian Munk-Christensen, played on February 8, 2020. For the commentary, Michel is assisted by the German top player Dirk Schiemann. Live XG analysis is provided as well. Watch, enjoy and learn!
More videos at the Gibraltar Backgammon Championship YouTube channel. Look in particular at the video of the semi-final and the final, where Michel’s guests are grandmasters Jürgen Orlowski, Mick Larsen, and Elias Kritikos, and with Neil Kazaross giving input via the chat.
This is the second and last 13-point match of the BIC 2016 final between Sassan Kashanian and Walter Meuwis. The match was played on December 16, 2016, at Longchamp’s, Uccle (Brussels).
Live commentary: Michel Lamote and Geert Van der Stricht
Transcription and XG analysis: Luc Palmans
Tournament director: Guy Van Middelem
Video: Nader K. Rad and Johan Segers
A big thanks to Patrick De Wilde (Leuven) for the realization of the videos and to Michel Lamote (Brugge) for the annotations. See also the tournament report. (more…)
The final between Michel Lamote (BE) and Paulus van Rooijen (NL) as well as the semifinal between Luc Palmans (BE) and Michel of the 3rd Leuven Backgammon Open on December 11, 2011, can be watched on Youtube. A big thank you to Patrick De Wilde for recording and editing the videos. Comments by Patrick for the final and by Michel for the semifinal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=intNL-5jkIo