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Mads Andersen (born 1970) is a poker and backgammon player from Copenhagen, Denmark. As of June 2015, his total live tournament winnings exceed $1,225,000. [1] and Heroscore ranks him as the 16th most influent Danish poker player. [2] Before making his mark in the poker world, Andersen won the 2002 World Backgammon Championships. [3]
Tournament Location 1967 Tim Holland: Las Vegas: 1968 Tim Holland: Las Vegas 1969 no championship 1970 no championship 1971 Tim Holland: Las Vegas 1972 Oswald Jacoby: Las Vegas 1973 Carol Crawford: Las Vegas 1974 Claude Beer: Las Vegas 1975 Billy Eisenberg: Bahamas: 1976 Baron Vernon Ball: Bahamas 1977 Ken Goodman: Bahamas 1978 Paul Magriel ...
World Series of Backgammon ("WSOB") is a televised, high-stakes backgammon tour created in 2006 by television producers and backgammon players, Andy Bell and Scotty Gelt. [ 1 ] Season I launched in 2006 with an 8-hour television series presented by Kara Scott and John Clark broadcast on Eurosport 2 in 44 European countries capturing the Riviera ...
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The sobriquet X-22 originates from Magriel's simulation of a real backgammon tournament (compare simultaneous exhibition in chess) with 64 boards, designated X-1 through X-64, in which the player designated "X-22" has eventually won. [4] Magriel became a major figure on the backgammon circuit when he won the World Backgammon Championship in ...
Backgammon: Backgammon: Backgammon World Championship: Individuals 1967 Johan Moazed 2024 2025 One year Chaturanga variants Chess: World Chess Championship: Individuals 1886 Gukesh Dommaraju: 2024 2026 Two years Shogi: Meijin (shogi) [a] Individuals 1937 Sōta Fujii: 2024 2025 One year Xiangqi: World Xiangqi Championship: Individuals 1990 Wang ...
Backgammon entered the computer era in the 1990s when software was developed to play and analyze games, and for people to play one another over the internet. Johnson's Expert Backgammon, introduced in 1990, was the first commercially available software package to analyze positions and provide stats for wins, losses, gammons, and backgammons. It ...