Masayuki “Mochy” Mochizuki (Giants #1) and Michihito “Michy” Kageyama (Giants #2) presented our 8th “Backgammon Proficiency Test” on Thursday, August 2nd – the third day of the 43rd Backgammon World Championship, Monte Carlo, Monaco.

That was the fifth time our proficiency test was held there, and so it has become a popular event among regular players.

A total of 31 players, including Jorgen Granstedt (Sweden, the three-time World Champion), Marc Olsen (Denmark, #1 in the 7th test), Falafel (USA/Israel, #1 in the 6th test), Zdenek Zizka (Czech, #1 in the 5th test), Matt Cohn-Geier (USA, #1 in the 3rd test), were present at the test.

As a result, Matt Cohn-Geier got an extremely high score of 43/50, and the runners‐up are Jorgen Granstedt and an anonymous player with 40/50. Matt currently stands in first place in terms of both the number of right answers and the total error rate (equity loss) among all of the players.

You can see the overall results of the 8th test as of now here.
The results for 31 players are as below:

Rank	Total score	Total errors	Name
1	43	585	Matt Cohn-Geier
2	40	1895	(Anonymous)
2	40	2357	Jorgen Granstedt
4	38	1350	Trencher Chris
4	38	1646	Marc Olsen
4	38	1841	S. W.
7	37	1128	Zdenek Zizka
8	36	1632	Falafel
9	35	1617	Lamote Michel
10	34	1452	Georgios Kleitsas
11	33	1646	(Anonymous)
11	33	1651	Honza Cerny
11	33	1674	Jon Barnes
14	30	1886	(Anonymous)
14	30	2013	Alexey Askurava
16	29	2144	Cheneviere
16	29	4450	(Anonymous)
18	28	2098	Jacek Wojciechowski
18	28	2521	Eva Zizkova
18	28	2603	Mark Megalli
21	27	2625	D. P.
21	27	2705	Hoyer Thorsten
21	27	4194	Sergiu Malis
24	26	2782	Stephan Hartmann
25	25	3046	Martin Barkwill
26	24	3785	Pavel Zaoral
27	23	3425	(Anonymous)
28	19	3957	D. R.
29	15	3947	Malfait Emmanuel
30	14	5132	Thesing Walter
30	14	7436	P. C.
Total 31	Ave. 29.7	Ave. 2620

Thank you very much for joining us!