{"id":4065,"date":"2017-07-31T23:16:32","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T14:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/?p=4065"},"modified":"2017-08-01T21:50:46","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T12:50:46","slug":"announce-bwcmc2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/article\/announce-bwcmc2017\/","title":{"rendered":"(Announcement) 7th Proficiency Test &#8211; Round 3 @ 42nd World Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now, it&#8217;s time to take the very new backgammon proficiency exam!<br \/>\nMasayuki \u201cMochy\u201d Mochizuki (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flintbg.com\/giants.html\" target=\"_blank\">#1 Giant of Backgammon 2015-2016<\/a>) will present our 7th \u201cBackgammon Proficiency Exam\u201d starting at 12:00 pm on Thursday, August 3rd in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bwcmc.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">the 42nd Backgammon World Championship<\/a>. On the following day, Mochy will give a lecture and review for you.<\/p>\n<p>It is scheduled as follows:<\/p>\n<p>12:00 PM &#8211; 1:00 PM, Thursday, August 3rd (Grand Prix A)<br \/>\nBackgammon Proficiency Exam &#8211; Exam Given<\/p>\n<p>12:00 PM &#8211; 1:00 PM, Friday, August 4th (Grand Prix B)<br \/>\nBackgammon Proficiency Exam &#8211; Lecture &#038; Review<\/p>\n<p>(Details at <a https:\/\/www.bwcmc.com\/schedule.php\">https:\/\/www.bwcmc.com\/schedule.php<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>This is the fourth consecutive year that it has been held, and it is becoming increasingly popular especially among intermediate and advanced-level players. Over fifty player (including Falafel, Jorgen Granstedt, Steen Gronbech, etc) have already challenged it so far.<\/p>\n<p>The results so far are here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/article\/result-bwcmc2016\/\">6th Proficiency Test \u2013 Round 4 @ 41st World Championship<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/article\/result-bwcmc2015\/\">5th Proficiency Test \u2013 Round 3 @ 40th World Championship<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/article\/result-bwcmc2014\/\">The 4th Backgammon Proficiency Test in 39th Backgammon World Championship<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As for details of the test, fifty high-quality and well-balanced questions are supervised by Mochy and Michihito \u201cMichy\u201d Kageyama (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flintbg.com\/giants.html\" target=\"_blank\">#2 Giant 2015-2016<\/a>). Thus, it is a worthy challenge for players at the intermediate and advanced levels.<br \/>\n(Details at <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/about\/\">https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/about\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>By the way, we provide a guide for an estimation of an approximate backgammon skill level as follows. Of course, it varies among players, please use just as a reference.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More than 45 correct answers &#8230; World champion class<\/li>\n<li>More than 40 correct answers &#8230; National champion class<\/li>\n<li>More than 35 correct answers &#8230; Local champion class<\/li>\n<li>More than 30 correct answers &#8230; Advanced class <\/li>\n<li>More than 20 correct answers &#8230; Intermediate class<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We are looking forward to many players taking this opportunity to attend.<br \/>\nWe hope you won&#8217;t miss it.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, it&#8217;s time to take the very new backgammon proficiency exam! Masayuki \u201cMochy\u201d Mochizuki (#1 Giant of Backgammon 2015-2016) will present our 7th \u201cBackgammon Proficiency Exam\u201d starting at 12:00 pm on Thursday, August 3rd in the 42nd Backgammon World Championship. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/article\/announce-bwcmc2017\/\">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":[23,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065"}],"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=4065"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4088,"href":"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065\/revisions\/4088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}