On Saturday, 16th January, our 5th Backgammon Proficiency Test was conducted as “BGTV Proficiency Contest” during the second day of Istanbul Open 2016, Turkey.

In spite of the various circumstances, many players joined us and the room was completely full.
We’d like to express thanks to everyone who attended our test in his/her busy schedule.

As a result, Martin Barkwill (UK) got the highest score, followed by Cumhur Bektüre (Turkey). Tebrik ederim!

The result of this round is as follows:

Rank	Total score	Total errors	Name
1	30	2347	Martin Barkwill
2	28	2079	Cumhur Bektüre
3	26	2721	Masoud Aghdam
4	25	2903	Martin Sagradian
4	25	3705	Abdullah Sorgüven
6	23	2372	Igor Romashov
6	23	3128	Murat Hazir
8	22	3373	Burak Çulhaci
9	20	3278	Altuğ Burdurlu
9	20	3487	Hakan Aksu
11	19	4393	Resul Uygur
11	19	5749	(Anonymous)
13	18	3325	Ali Alakoç
13	18	4641	Tim Line
15	17	3468	Ruşen Ali Soylu
15	17	4450	Göksel Kilinç
17	16	3938	Levent Erim
18	14	4161	Kemal Aksu
19	11	5235	Zehra Aydin
20	10	5805	Atilla Kilinç
20	10	6603	(Anonymous)
Total 21	Ave. 19.6	Ave. 3865

Our test booklets were translated into Turkish by Arda, the president of WBF Turkey. Also, he prepared a special room for us and helped us a lot. Cüneyt helped us as a test supervisor. Other staff assisted us in a committed manner. It was great!

We have no words to express our thanks to all of the participants and the staff in Istanbul Open.

We’ll see each other again next year 🙂

Aki

You can see the whole result of the 5th test at this page, as of today.