Luigi Billa
Jeffrey Goldsmith
Was Luigi Billa World Champion at Backgammon in 1979?
Please email me :) Thanks.
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Jeffrey Goldsmith
wo...@panix.com
John Bazigos
Immediately below is a table listing, for each year from 1967 through 1993
(excluding 1969 and 1970), the generally recognized Backgammon World
Champion for that year, and his/her (primary) country of citizenship at
the time of winning the title.
YEAR WORLD CHAMPION COUNTRY
1967 Tim Holland USA
1968 Tim Holland USA
1969
1970
1971 Tim Holland USA
1972 Oswald Jacoby USA
1973 Carol Crawford USA
1974 Claude Beer USA
1975 Billy Eisenberg USA
1976 Baron Vernon Ball USA
1977 Ken Goodman USA
1978 Paul Magriel USA
1979 Luigi Villa Italy
1980 Walter Cortella Mexico
1981 Lee Genud USA
1982 Jacques Michel Switzerland
1983 Bill Robertie USA
1984 Mike Svobodny USA
1985 Charles-Henri Sabet Switzerland
1986 Clement Palacci Italy
1987 Bill Robertie USA
1988 Phillip Marmorstein Germany
1989 Joe Russell USA
1990 Hal Heinrich Canada
1991 Michael Meyburg Germany
1992 Ion Ressu Switzerland
1993 Peter Jes Thomsen Denmark
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>Please email me :) Thanks.
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>Jeffrey Goldsmith
>wo...@panix.com
Cheers.
-- John "doc" Bazigos
Igor Sheyn
: In article <2uufu7$k...@panix3.panix.com>,
: Jeffrey Goldsmith <wo...@panix.com> wrote:
: >
: >Was Luigi Billa World Champion at Backgammon in 1979?
: Immediately below is a table listing, for each year from 1967 through 1993
: (excluding 1969 and 1970), the generally recognized Backgammon World
: Champion for that year, and his/her (primary) country of citizenship at
: the time of winning the title.
Now what year was the very 1st Monte-Carlo World Championship?
Igor
John Bazigos
>John Bazigos (jbaz...@ibmpcug.co.uk) wrote:
>: In article <2uufu7$k...@panix3.panix.com>,
>: Jeffrey Goldsmith <wo...@panix.com> wrote:
>: >
>: >Was Luigi Billa
sic: Luiga Villa
> World Champion at Backgammon in 1979?
To repeat what I reported in my immediately previous posting to rn on this
matter, yes.
>
>: Immediately below is a table listing, for each year from 1967 through 1993
>: (excluding 1969 and 1970), the generally recognized Backgammon World
>: Champion for that year, and his/her (primary) country of citizenship at
>: the time of winning the title.
>
>Now what year was the very 1st Monte-Carlo World Championship?
The Monte Carlo World Championship began in 1976, igor, but was not
recognized by the top players of the game at the time as the official
world championship until 1979. For the record, the winners of the
Monte-Carlo World Championship in its three misnomered years were
Joe Dwek of Great Britain in 1976,
John Noel Grinda of France in 1977, and
Richard de Surmont of France in 1978.
Also for the record, the generally recognized World Championship was held
in
Las Vegas from 1967 through 1974,
The Bahamas from 1975 through 1978, and
Monte Carlo from 1979 to date.
>Igor
-- John "doc" Bazigos
P.S. Are any FIBS-people other than David (Cookie) Hochron, George
Klistas (George_Klitsas), and probably I going to this year's
Monte Carlo World Championship next week?
John Bazigos
When you asked me during my last match with TD-Gammon whether Bill
Robertie has published theory on 7-12 holding games, I remembered that he
had in his problem-collection "Advanced Backgammon" (Gammon Press; P.O.
Box 294; Arlington, MA 02174; U.S.A; Tel.: 1-617-641-2091; Fax:
1-617-648-8041) but I could not find it when I cursorily searched for it
in the "High Anchors" chapter of the Second (1991) Edition of that text.
The reason for the failure of that search seems to be that, unfortunately,
he did not include such theory in the Second Edition; however, as I
remembered, he included it in his solution to Problem 102 of the First
(1984) Edition:
As a holding position, the bar-point/midpoint combination is slightly
inferior to the 5-point/midpoint combination. [The holder] gains when
[the holdee] is forced to leave his midpoint; in that case[,] [the holder]
has a double shot instead of an ace and eight shot (24 shots as opposed
to 17). He loses, however, in that he rates to get only that one shot.
From the 5-point, [the holder] may get future shots at the 8-point and
the 6-point. [p. 133]
To address another aspect of that match, below is a message forwarded
from Ran, who is the system-administrator of the machine in Sweden on
which FIBS has been running for several months now, showing that
FIBS' newly implemeted "toggle greedy" feature
1. was malfunctioning for me in that match, frequently bearing
checkers onto my ace-point instead of bearing checkers off;
and
2. as a result, largely because mine was set to YES and TD's to NO, made
me lose by one roll a simple bearoff that I should have won by several
rolls, making the 5-point match-score 3-3 rather than 5-1 in my favor.
Fortunately, however,
1. having strongly suspected that malfunction, I did not "toggle greedy"
in the next game, which I won to win the match 5-3 -- so all was well
that ended well there, I guess;
and
2. immediately after I informed marvin --FIBS's brain-father and
administrator-- of Ran's documentation, below, of that problem, he went
to work on solving it and strongly believed that he had.
Nevertheless, for the readers of rec.games.backgammon who play on FIBS and
intend to use "toggle greedy" and/or "off", the following two caveats are
in order:
1. If you are unsure about how a certain FIBS-feature works, read the
appropriate well-written help-file by entering
help <feature-name>
For a comprehensive listing of the names of help files on FIBS, enter
help
2. When using any newly implemented feature (on FIBS), proceed with
extreme caution since there may be unexpected problems with it: Even
as competent a system-administrator as "marvelous marvin" does not
always implement features perfectly right away, especially on a system,
like FIBS
a. on which he works in his relatively little spare time
and
b. for which he not only doesn't get paid, but even incurs some costs --
e.g., time, telephone charges, and even some abuse.
Cheers.
-- John "doc" Bazigos
Forwarded message:
> From sponsz.cd.chalmers.se!cd.chalmers.se!xt Mon Jul 4 23:46:09 1994
> Date: Tue, 5 Jul 1994 00:45:45 +0200
> From: Carl Hall`n <x...@cd.chalmers.se>
> Message-Id: <1994070422...@sponsz.cd.chalmers.se>
> To: jbaz...@ibmpcug.co.uk
> Subject: Bear off
> X-Charset: LATIN1
> X-Char-Esc: 29
>
> > doc rolls 4 and 4.
> > chronosii just registered and logs in.
> > doc moves 7-3 7-3 7-3 7-3.
> > tesauro rolls 1 and 1.
> > tesauro moves 17-18 18-19 18-19 18-19.
> > doc rolls 1 and 1.
> > doc moves 1-off 3-2 2-1 1-off.
> > tesauro rolls 4 and 6.
> > tesauro moves 12-18 16-20.
> > doc rolls 4 and 4.
> > doc moves 4-off 4-off 4-off 6-2.
> > tesauro rolls 5 and 5.
> > tesauro moves 17-22 17-22 18-23 20-off.
> > doc rolls 2 and 6.
> Bearing off: 6 o 2 o
> doc moves 6-off 6-4.
> > tesauro rolls 6 and 2.
> > tesauro kibitzes: what was that??
> > tesauro kibitzes: new FIBS feature?
> > tesauro moves 19-off 23-off.
> > doc rolls 2 and 3.
> Bearing off: 3 o 2 o
> doc moves 5-2 5-3.
> > doc kibitzes: I set my greedy toggle to YES
> > tesauro rolls 3 and 1.
> > tesauro kibitzes: hm
> > Tavili logs in.
> > tesauro moves 22-off 19-20.
> > doc rolls 3 and 1.
> > doc kibitzes: enter "to(ggle) greedy" if u want the same
> > doc kibitzes: there's andy's usual great help-files "help off" and
"help greedy"
> > Nick_D logs in.
> > doc moves 3-off 2-1.
> > tesauro rolls 3 and 6.
> > tesauro moves 19-off 22-off.
> > doc rolls 6 and 1.
> Bearing off: 5 o 1 o
> doc moves 5-4 4-off.
> > tesauro rolls 1 and 3.
> > tesauro moves 22-off 20-21.
> > doc rolls 2 and 6.
> Bearing off: 4 o 2 o
> doc moves 4-off 3-1.
> > tesauro rolls 4 and 4.
> > chronos and chronosii start a 3 point match.
> > tger logs out.
> > karliza just registered and logs in.
> > tesauro moves 19-23 19-23 20-24 21-off.
> > doc rolls 2 and 6.
> Bearing off: 3 o 2 o
> doc moves 3-off 3-1.
> > tesauro rolls 3 and 3.
> The only possible move is 19-22 22-off 22-off 23-off.
> tesauro moves 19-22 22-off 22-off 23-off.
> > doc rolls 1 and 5.
> Bearing off: 3 o 1 o
> doc moves 3-off 2-1.
> > tesauro rolls 1 and 2.
> > tesauro moves 23-off 24-off.
> > doc rolls 4 and 6.
> The only possible move is 1-off 1-off.
> doc moves 1-off 1-off.
> > tesauro rolls 2 and 5.
> The only possible move is 23-off 23-off.
> tesauro moves 23-off 23-off.
> tesauro wins the game and gets 2 points.
> score in 5 point match: tesauro-3 doc-3
> > tesauro kibitzes: amazing!
> > doc kibitzes: did that work right?
Kit Woolsey
: To address another aspect of that match, below is a message forwarded
: from Ran, who is the system-administrator of the machine in Sweden on
: which FIBS has been running for several months now, showing that
: FIBS' newly implemeted "toggle greedy" feature
: 1. was malfunctioning for me in that match, frequently bearing
: checkers onto my ace-point instead of bearing checkers off;
: and
: 2. as a result, largely because mine was set to YES and TD's to NO, made
: me lose by one roll a simple bearoff that I should have won by several
: rolls, making the 5-point match-score 3-3 rather than 5-1 in my favor.
I had an unexpected problem with the toggle-greedy feature. I had just
finished a match with the toggle-greedy turned on, and then picked up a
resumed match. Much to my surprise (and dismay when I left a shot in a
bearoff as I was trying to play safe) the toggle-greedy feature was still
toggled on -- it did not turn off upon the resumption of a saved game.
Obviously this should be changed, but until it is everybody has to be
careful about this one.
Kit