On Thursday, August 1st – the third day of the 44th Backgammon World Championship, our 9th “Backgammon Proficiency Test” was presented by Hideaki Ueda, who joined our test production team from this year and the current JBL(Japanese Backgammon League) Bansei tournament champion.

This is the sixth consecutive year that it has been held, and so it has become a popular event. A total of 28 players, including Jorgen Granstedt (Sweden, the three-time World Champion), Marc Olsen (Denmark, #1 in the 7th test), Zdenek Zizka (Czech, #1 in the 5th test), took part in it.

As the result, Zdenek Zizka (Czech) is on top with 39 correct answers (out of 50), followed by Aurelien Bonnet (France) and Jorgen Granstedt (Sweden).

Now, we have some good news
Fabrizio Lo Surdo (Italy), who enjoyed our proficiency test for the first time, won the 3rd place in the main championship. Congratulations!!
Just started playing backgammon, Takayuki Moriuchi (Japan) won the Juniors tournament. We are looking forward to how he grows from now on, yeah!!

Taka Moriuchi won the Backgammon Junior World Championship ＼(^^)／ pic.twitter.com/sjtTNsskGP

— 下平憲治 (@KenjiShimohei) August 3, 2019

The results of 28 players are as below:

Rank	Total score	Total errors	Name
1	39	1659	Zdenek Zizka
2	34	2416	Aurelien Bonnet
3	33	2251	Jorgen Granstedt
4	32	2495	S. W.
4	32	2700	George Klitsas
6	31	2095	Thorsten Hoyer
6	31	2257	G. C.
8	30	2221	Marc Olsen
8	30	2416	(Anonymous)
10	29	2574	Toshiyuki Moriuchi
10	29	3519	Malis Sergiu
12	28	3018	Stephan Hartmann
13	27	3186	Fabio Cultrera
13	27	3516	Chris Trencher
15	23	3506	J. M.
15	23	4690	M. E.
17	22	3714	Fabrizio Lo Surdo
17	22	3768	Phil Simborg
19	21	3532	Didisheim Patrick
20	20	4046	Ralf Sudbrak
21	19	3706	A. H.
21	19	4597	Lorenzo Rusconi
21	19	4823	D. T.
24	18	4700	Bogdan Constantinoiu
25	17	5094	Michael Ramsey
26	15	5477	A. F.
27	13	4510	Y
27	13	6037	Takayuki Moriuchi
Total 28	Ave. 24.9	Ave. 3519

You can see the overall results of the 9th test as of now here.
Thank you very much for joining us!