On Sunday, May 25th, the 4th Backgammon Proficiency Test took place with acceptance in 34th Chicago Open Backgammon Tournament.
The next day’s lecture by Masayuki “Mochy” Mochizuki for the test was also received well.

Schedule of Events – 34th Chicago Open –

We are very privileged to welcome many world-leading players like Matvey “Falafel” Natanzon, John O’Hagan, Matt Cohn-Geier, Mary Hickey, Stepan Nuniyants, Phil Simborg and Tobias Hellwag.

(Photo by Mochizuki Masayuki)

Falafel came in a slamming 1st place in terms of the number of correct answers as of today. David Pressar, who had gotten the highest score out of 17 testees on the 3rd test this January, took 2nd place.

In spite of the tight schedule, we had 28 testees in total during 34th Chicago Open.
Thank you all for joining us!

The result is as follows.

Rank	Total score	Total errors	Name
1	38	1567	Falafel
2	35	1600	David Presser
3	34	1761	John O’Hagan
4	33	1669	G. T.
5	32	1624	Matt Cohn-Geier
6	30	2058	Dennis Culpepper
7	29	2616	Mary Hickey
8	26	2267	Tobias Hellwag
9	25	2625	A. M.
9	25	2648	Saba Bejanishvili
9	25	3086	Stepan Nuniyants
9	25	4043	Karen Davis
13	24	2706	Chuck Bower
14	23	3102	Roberto Litzenberger
14	23	3507	Phil Simborg
16	21	3018	Herb Roman
16	21	3481	G. A.
16	21	4090	Ronald Loero
19	20	4521	David Hanold
20	19	4605	Vadim Nuniyants
21	18	4339	(Anonymous)
22	17	4579	Allen Tish
23	16	4404	J. P.
23	16	5083	Rose Sheedy
23	16	5407	Bruce J. Farquhar
26	14	5048	Harry Glinos
27	13	6118	Frank Dama
Total 28	Ave. 23.2	Ave. 3489