On Friday evening, May 26th, the third day of the 41st Chicago Open Backgammon Tournament & WBGF Club World Championship, Michihito “Michy” Kageyama conducted the 10th Backgammon Proficiency Test. He also gave a lecture about the test to the participants on Sunday.

The Chicago Open has held this test six times in the past, and they have all been well received. This year’s event was again very well received with 27 participants. More than half of the participants were repeaters. This time we also had a 10-year-old girl participate. We are committed to the education of young backgammon players and decided to let her take the test for free to support her studies.

After scoring, Gerry Tansey came out on top with 38 correct answers (out of 50). He described our test as “Very thorough and fair test of backgammon skills, as always. All problems are “real” backgammon situations and decisions. To the extent that the test is difficult, it is because backgammon itself is challenging. Thank you for producing such a high quality product, every player who wants to measure and improve their game must try this test”.

Scores for all participants are as follows:

Rank	Total score	Total errors	Name
1	38	1348	Gerry Tansey
2	35	1590	Ary Nogueira
3	34	1578	Kit Woolsey
4	33	1803	Bill Lonergan
5	32	2214	Joseph Sheppard
5	32	2531	Craig Anderson
7	31	1880	Frank Talbot
8	30	1648	Allen Tish
8	30	2519	Ken Bame
10	28	2428	Fredrik Carlsson
11	27	2390	Gree Lilley
12	26	3613	Marc Emrich
13	25	3262	(Anonymous)
14	24	3214	John Stryker
15	22	3331	Richard Stubbe
15	22	3423	Jim Zinkhon
15	22	3627	Carol Joy Cole
15	22	3684	Julius High
19	21	3195	J. D.
20	20	3550	V. E.
21	19	3761	Daniel Vargas
22	18	3556	N. A.
22	18	4136	Donna Lafferty
24	16	4158	Jeb Horton
25	15	5083	K. A.
26	14	4497	Eric Wazner
27	11	4404	H. D.
Total 27	Ave. 24.6	Ave. 3053

The overall scores for the 10th test at this time can be found here.