6th MERIT Open International Backgammon Championship 6th Ion Ressu Memorial Doubles 30th October – 4th November, 2018 Merit Park Hotel & Casino - Girne/Kyrenia (KKTC) Winner takes 69.000 € (including an added of 12.000 €) Total money distribution 465.420 € (including 3 Super-Jackpots, 389 Jackpots and an added of 40.300 €) Marco Fornasir, General Secretary of the Worldwide Backgammon Federation, has the pleasure to announce the results of the Tournament Master flight - 358 players Main winner (17 – 16 | 9 - 7) Franck Stepler | France Main Finalist Aurelien Bonnet | France 3rd place Lars Trabolt | Denmark Ofir Balali | Israel Abdullah Sorgüven | Turkey Ralf Jonas | Germany Michael Larsen | Denmark Katalin Veszeli | Hungary Jan Jacobowitz | Germany Tobias Hellwag | Germany Janne Bergström | Sweden Roohollah Amiri Andy | Iran Dimitrios Manganas | Greece Conny Eriksson | Sweden Raj Jansari | UK Stephane Cheneviere | France Recep Ural | Turkey Mårten Howe | Sweden Tom Zarrinnam | USA 4th place 5th place 6th place 7th place 8th place 9/12th place 9/12th place 9/12th place 9/12th place 13/20th place 13/20th place 13/20th place 13/20th place 13/20th place 13/20th place 13/20th place 13/20th place Soinguli Amirov | Georgia
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6thMERITOpenInternationalBackgammonChampionship
6thIonRessuMemorialDoubles30thOctober–4thNovember,2018
MeritParkHotel&Casino-Girne/Kyrenia(KKTC)
Winnertakes69.000€(includinganaddedof12.000€)Totalmoneydistribution465.420€
(including3Super-Jackpots,389Jackpotsandanaddedof40.300€)
MarcoFornasir,GeneralSecretaryoftheWorldwideBackgammonFederation,hasthepleasuretoannouncetheresultsoftheTournament
Masterflight-358players
Mainwinner(17–16|9-7) FranckStepler|FranceMainFinalist AurelienBonnet|France3rdplace LarsTrabolt|Denmark
OfirBalali|IsraelAbdullahSorgüven|TurkeyRalfJonas|GermanyMichaelLarsen|DenmarkKatalinVeszeli|HungaryJanJacobowitz|GermanyTobiasHellwag|GermanyJanneBergström|SwedenRoohollahAmiriAndy|IranDimitriosManganas|GreeceConnyEriksson|SwedenRajJansari|UKStephaneCheneviere|FranceRecepUral|TurkeyMårtenHowe|SwedenTomZarrinnam|USA
4thplace5thplace6thplace7thplace8thplace9/12thplace9/12thplace9/12thplace9/12thplace13/20thplace13/20thplace13/20thplace13/20thplace13/20thplace13/20thplace13/20thplace13/20thplace SoinguliAmirov|Georgia
Lastchancewinner JalilKhalili|IranLastchanceFinalist MarcFerrin|USALastchanceSemi-Finalist IbrahimKaraca|TurkeyLastchanceSemi-Finalist TimurBulekbaev|Russia
LadiesPrize KatalinVeszeli|Hungary
MasterDoubles–154teams
Doubleswinners OlivierDecultot|France/AlainBabillon|FranceDoublesFinalists ThomasRönn|Sweden/JanneBergström|SwedenDoublessemi-Finalists EliRoymi|Israel/IsraelYacobov|IsraelDoublessemi-Finalists GerhardJanotta|Germany/MarkusRindisbacher|
Switzerland
Intermediateflight-174players
Mainwinner(13–10) PaulSchlegel|GermanyMainFinalist GelaMetskhvarishvili|Georgia3rdplace LevonKamalyan|Armenia
AshkanYahyazadeh|IranPedroRocadeTogores|SpainArefDarvish|IranOliverPlaehn|GermanyYilmazKurtay|Turkey
4thplace5thplace6thplace7thplace8thplace9thplace ZoranKrogstad|Norway10thplace PayamPasha|Iran11thplace JuanPabloPieroni|Argentina12thplace BogdanConstantinoiu|Romania
Lastchancewinner JordanKirchev|BulgariaLastchanceFinalist TomerWisbord|IsraelLastchanceSemi-Finalist CemalettinKarakütük|TurkeyLastchanceSemi-Finalist RuslanMialeshka|Belarus
LadiesPrize JuliyaGromenkova|Russia
Super-Jackpot1-32playersWinner MikaelWesterlund|SwedenFinalist KanadeKubota|JapanSemi-Finalist DagfinnSnarheim|NorwaySemi-Finalist YoshiNakamura|Japan
Super-Jackpot2-32playersWinner ShahabGhodsi|IranFinalist WernerSchmucki|AustriaSemi-Finalist TilmanSöhnchen|GermanySemi-Finalist MetinÇubuk|Turkey
Super-Jackpot3-16playersWinner GavrielMenasherov|IsraelFinalist MasayukiMochizuki|JapanSemi-Finalist StuartDunkin|USASemi-Finalist ThomasKazemieh|Germany
LadiesTournament-64playersWinner(9-6) AnnelieSkoglund|SwedenFinalist AlexandraKnupfer|Romania/SwitzerlandSemi-Finalist KarinaLanghoffdeTurah|DenmarkSemi-Finalist AnnMaibrittEhlers|Denmark
Warm-up869BG-256playersWinner YoshiyukiNakamura|JapanFinalist ShayAsraff|USASemi-Finalist ÇumhurBektüre|TurkeySemi-Finalist YurikoYamamoto|Japan
Speedgammon-128playersWinner HonzaCerny|CzechRepublikFinalist KenjiShimodaira|JapanSemi-Finalist HonzaCerny|CzechRepublikSemi-Finalist GötzHildsberg|Germany
OnePointMatch-128playersWinner AlainBabillon|FranceFinalist IrakliJashi|GeorgiaSemi-Finalist TobiasSchön|GermanySemi-Finalist HamidrezaArdalani|Iran
Mochy’sQuiz–163playersBestspeaker ZdenekZizka|CzechRepublikWinner YuriNakamura|JapanFinalist HenningFrick|GermanySemi-Finalist ShahabGhodsi|IranSemi-Finalist KazukiYokota|Japan
BMABEvent–16playersWinner AdrianNedelcu|USA|AustriaPRWinner ToniBernaba|Lebanon
WetGammon–UnderwaterBackgammononepointevent–14playersWinner TimLine|UKFinalist MariusCorneliuVeres|RomaniaSemi-Finalist SükrüYurttekin|TurkeySemi-Finalist KlausSwiton|Denmark
Data&Numbers
Master:358playersIntermediate:174playersPlayernotparticipatinginthemainflights:20(8Doubles;12Ladies)Total552players
43Countries:Afghanistan,Albania,Argentina,Armenia,Austria,Azerbaijan,Belarus,Belgium,Brazil,Bulgaria,Canada,CzechRepublic,Denmark,Finland,France,Georgia,Germany,Gibraltar,Greece,Hungary,Iran,Israel,Italy,Japan,KKTC,Lebanon,Luxembourg,Macedonia,Malta,Netherlands,Norway,Philippines,Romania,Russia,SouthAfrica,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Thailand,Turkey,UK,Ukraine,USA
Directors:MarcoFornasir|Italy-ArdaFindikoglu|TurkeyTournamentCommittee:JohnBroomfield|UK(president);SergeyErokhin|Russia;NodariGagua|Georgia;JörgenGranstedt|Sweden;ShimonKagan|Israel;MichihitoKageyama|Japan;JalilKhalili|Iran;YiorgosKleitsas|Greece;PetkoKostadinov|Bulgaria/USA;RicardoMalas|Lebanon;IanMacFarlane|Brazil;AbdullahSorgüven|Turkey;RainerWitt| Germany
WBFWorldwideBackgammonFederation
6thIonRessuMemorialDoubles
154Teamsx400€=61.600€+6.000€added=67.600€Winnerteam34.000€Finalistteam16.800€
Semi-Finalistteam8.400€Semi-Finalistteam8.400€
MERITDoublesChampionsF.1MasterOlivierDécultot/AlainBabillon|France
MERITDoublesFinalistsF.1Master
ThomasRönn/JanneBergström|Sweden
MERITDoublesSemi-FinalistsF.1MasterEliRoymi/IsraelYacobov|Israel
MERITDoublesSemi-FinalistsF.1MasterGerhardJanotta|Germany/MarkusRindisbacher|Switzerland
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