{"id":2636,"date":"2014-10-22T00:13:28","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T15:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/?p=2636"},"modified":"2014-10-27T22:35:01","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T13:35:01","slug":"notice-athens2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/article\/notice-athens2014\/","title":{"rendered":"(Notice) 4th Backgammon Proficiency Test in the Athens Open 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce that <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/about\/\">the 4th Backgammon Proficiency Test<\/a> will be conducted with the current #1 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flintbg.com\/giants.html\" target=\"_blank\">Giant of Backgammon<\/a> Masayuki \u201cMochy\u201d Mochizuki during <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bgfed.gr\/bg\/index.php\/en\/2-uncategorised\/438-athens-open-2014\" target=\"_blank\">the Athens Open 2014<\/a>, Greece.<\/p>\n<p>This test is scheduled as follows:<br \/>\nDate: Saturday, October 25, 2014<br \/>\nTime: 11:30 am \u2013 12:30 pm<\/p>\n<p>Mochy&#8217;s in-depth seminar reviewing some of the most interesting answers is scheduled on the next day:<br \/>\nDate: Sunday, October 26, 2014<br \/>\nTime: 11:00 am \u2013 (12:00 pm)<\/p>\n<p>See: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bgfed.gr\/bg\/index.php\/en\/2-uncategorised\/438-athens-open-2014\" target=\"_blank\">2nd Athens Open | Oct 23-26 @ Palace Hotel, Alimos<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A year ago, 13 participants took our 3rd test, and Giorgos Kleitsas got the highest score with 43 correct answers out of 50, followed by Kimon Papachristopoulos during <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/492487544142482\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Porto Carras International Open<\/a> on May 11, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>See: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/article\/portocarras20130511\/\" target=\"_blank\">The 3rd Backgammon Proficiency Test in Porto Carras International Open<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo_20130511_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"photo 1\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; width \/***\/:auto;\" \/><br \/>\n(Photo of the Porto Carras International Open 2013)<\/p>\n<p>Here is an interesting bar chart of the 3rd test, showing an average score by nation.<br \/>\nIt looks to say that Greek is one of the strongest nation in the world.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/bar_chart_by_nation_3_gr.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"photo 1\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; width \/***\/:auto;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The test is devised for the intermediate and advanced level players by Mochy and #2 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flintbg.com\/giants.html\" target=\"_blank\">Giant of Backgammon<\/a> Michihito \u201cMichy\u201d Kageyama, but it is open to anyone.<\/p>\n<p>Please attend it if your schedule permits.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce that the 4th Backgammon Proficiency Test will be conducted with the current #1 Giant of Backgammon Masayuki \u201cMochy\u201d Mochizuki during the Athens Open 2014, Greece. This test is scheduled as follows: Date: Saturday, October 25, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/article\/notice-athens2014\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2636"}],"version-history":[{"count":45,"href":"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2686,"href":"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions\/2686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}