On Sunday, April 20th, the 3rd Backgammon Proficiency Test was administered in Nordic Open 2014.
We had 41 attendees from 17 countries, and the results were actually high-level.

The next day, Mochy’s seminar on the answers and the commentaries for this exam was held.

Schedule Nordic Open 2014

Michael Nielsen (Denmark) got the highest score with 43 marks (out of 50), followed by Christian Sorensen (Netherlands).

The result in Nordic Open is as follows.
(It does not include the result of a visually-impaired player, and we will add it later.)

Rank	Total score	Total errors	Name
1	43	993	Michael Nielsen
2	40	1622	Christian Sorensen
3	39	1154	Timo Vaatainen
3	39	1281	Carlo Melzi
5	38	1509	Petko Kostadinov
6	37	1420	Thomas Tenland
7	36	1925	Sabri Buyuksoy
8	35	1875	Alain Babillon
8	35	2085	Peter Bennet
10	34	1337	Stiebler Maik
10	34	1882	Zafer Tas
12	33	1579	Klaus Evers
12	33	1597	Johan Segers
12	33	2099	Jason Pack
12	33	2269	Aref Alipour
16	32	2245	Sean Williams
17	31	2289	Simon Baget
18	29	2838	Terje Pedersen
18	29	2903	Peter Toftso
18	29	3358	Martin Barkwill
21	28	2385	Giorgio Castellano
21	28	2841	Theis K.K. Rasmussen
21	28	2973	V. G.
21	28	3196	Timur Bulekbaev
25	27	2782	Vadim Musaelyan
25	27	2803	Walter Meuwis
27	26	2530	Antonio Sgambato
28	25	3513	Michael Urban
29	24	3306	Jesper Carlsson
29	24	3450	Tommy Berggren
29	24	3516	J. L. A.
29	24	3639	Ricardo Malas
33	22	3363	Grunbaum Georges
33	22	3773	Fredrik Carlsson
35	21	3047	E. R.
35	21	4255	Simon Morecroft
35	21	4389	Christian Andresen
38	18	4845	(Anonymous)
39	15	5449	P. H. S.
39	15	5781	Sylvia Wist
Total 40	Ave. 29.0	Ave. 2752

The 3rd Backgammon Proficiency Test came to an end with this event (and we’re now preparing the next test).
Then, the number of attendees totaled 145 for the test. The whole list is here.

Finally, Matt Cohn-Geier (USA), Giorgos Kleitsas (Greece) and Michael Nielsen (Denmark) is #1 in terms of most answers right, and Falafel is #1 in terms of least error made.

Thank you all for joining us!