{"id":3167,"date":"2015-10-06T01:25:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T16:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/?p=3167"},"modified":"2015-10-08T08:03:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T23:03:27","slug":"announce-bgfes2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/article\/announce-bgfes2015\/","title":{"rendered":"(Announcement) 5th Proficiency Test @ Backgammon Festival 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are proud to announce that the 5th Backgammon Proficiency Test will be conducted during <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backgammon.gr.jp\/festival\/index.php?page=en\" target=\"_blank\">the Backgammon Festival 2015<\/a> in October.<\/p>\n<p>It is scheduled as follows:<br \/>\nDate: Saturday, 10th October, 2015<br \/>\nTime: 11:30 &#8211; 12:30 pm<br \/>\nPrice: 3,000 yen<br \/>\nVenue: <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&#038;hl=ja&#038;q=%93%8C%8B%9E%93s%8Fa%92J%8B%E6%90_%93%EC1-12-13\" target=\"_blank\">Shibuya Shidax Village 2F SHIDAX HALL, Tokyo, Japan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have already finished translating all of the booklets into English, so every English speaker can take this test without language problems.<\/p>\n<p>The test is devised for players at the intermediate and advanced levels by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flintbg.com\/giants.html\" target=\"_blank\">#1 Giant of Backgammon<\/a> Mochy and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flintbg.com\/giants.html\" target=\"_blank\">#2 Giant of Backgammon<\/a> Michy, and is intended to measure your degree of knowledge and understanding of backgammon.<\/p>\n<p>Also, you can compete with players throughout the world on the rankings.<br \/>\nCurrent rankings for the 4th tests are <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/score\/#5\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past year, over 190 players have taken <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/score\/#4\">the 4th test<\/a>, which has been presented at major tournaments all over the world, including the Nordic Open in Copenhagen, the Texas Backgammon Championships in San Antonio, and the World Championships in Monte Carlo.<\/p>\n<p>Now, try to get the highest score!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backgammon.gr.jp\/festival\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/backgammon.gr.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_43371.png\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are proud to announce that the 5th Backgammon Proficiency Test will be conducted during the Backgammon Festival 2015 in October. It is scheduled as follows: Date: Saturday, 10th October, 2015 Time: 11:30 &#8211; 12:30 pm Price: 3,000 yen Venue: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/article\/announce-bgfes2015\/\">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":[21,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167"}],"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=3167"}],"version-history":[{"count":103,"href":"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3265,"href":"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions\/3265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}