Backgammon Tournament Results
FMBGT: ISTAVDER 18th ANNIVERSARY BACKGAMMON FEAST
April 20-26, 2026; Istanbul, Türkiye
CHAMPIONSHIP (804): 1-Emircan Sisik, 2-Alpay Akyol, 3-Ali Çetin Belene, 4-Catalin Bucur (England), 5-Martin Filipi (Czechia), 6-Mehmet Çakici (Northern Cyprus), 7-Marcus Reinhard (Germany), 8-Ozan Güçlü, 9-Mann Darzi (Iraq), 10-Eva Zizkova (Czechia), 11/16-Burak Kaya / Mehmet Ali Kara / Ersin Narman / Aytug Yigit / Burak Simsek / Bogidar Iliev (Bulgaria), 17/27-Amin Shahvalizadeh (Iran) / Ahmet Nergiz / Aykut Keskin / Enver Köksoy / Mirhedeyat Hashemifar (Iran) / Mert Yavuz / Rumen Rikevski (Bulgaria) / Orhan Özyaman / Serkan Özkaraca / Michel Cabrol (France) / Wolfgang Henze (Germany), 28/45-Demet Altuntas / Savas Gül / Ekrem Basdas (Germany) / Taner Kandirali / Ahmet Sevimli / Sergei Pethukov (Russia) / Ahmed Sayed (Egypt) / Yahya Yigci / Erhan Öztekin / Ivaylo Zahariev (Bulgaria) / Zafer Karadag / Gökalp Acar / Mustafa Kemal Alemdar / Dinçer Günes / Mete Demirsoy / Antonio Anelli (Italy) / Sefa Kösem / Alpay Kiliç (England); 1C-Benyamin Najafizadeh (Iran), 2C-Alptekin Solak, 3C/11C-Borislav Borisov (Bulgaria) / Parafestas Basileios (Greece) / Jakob Garal (Ukraine) / Onur Yumuk / Vlad Lazarescu (Romania) / Mohammad Amin Shafiee (Iran) / Mohammad Hatami (Iran) / Yousef Abdollahnezhad (Iran) / Ugur Özdemir; 1LC-Tahir Saltoglu, 2LC-Recep Günebakan, 3LC/8LC-Imran Süngü / Tunç Çelik / Bilgin Gürses / Vasily Chemokhonenko (Russia) / Burak Hakki / Baris Akengin.
CONSULTING DOUBLES (164 teams): 1-Mustafa Altuntas & Tolunay Kafkas, 2-Juergen Kunkel (Germany) & Ulrich Zoller (Germany), 3-Selim Akkus & Gökalp Acar, 4-Kenan Dal & Mert Yavuz, 5/12-Ali Cem Dinçer & Stefan Post (Australia) / Kolintzaridis Chrisafis (Greece) & Foulis Kolitza (Greece) / Cihan Murat Hakimoglu & Self / Stanimir Nedev (Bulgaria) & Nikola Nedev (Bulgaria) / Yousef Abdollahnezhad (Iran) & Mohammad Hatami (Iran) / Fuat Erdag & Ali Çetin Belene / Hikmet Terzi & Asur Yildirim / Erdinç Bayindir & Hakan Bozkurt.
FMPR DIGITAL BOARD #1 (26): 1-Ivan Leshtarov (Bulgaria), 2/4-Mert Yavuz / Argun Erkaya / Sefik Gedikoglu; PR Ranking: 1-Atilla Inanli (4.38), 2-Ivan Leshtarov (Bulgaria) (4.55), 3-Sefik Gedikoglu (5.08).
FMPR DIGITAL BOARD #2 (26): 1- Faruk Han, 2/5: Mohammad Seifollahi (Iran) / Burak Hakki / Georgi Dimitrov (Spain) / Burak Kaya; PR Ranking: 1-Burak Hakki (4.44), 2-Atilla Inanli (4.59), 3-Hamid Esmaili (Iran) (5.27).
FMPR DIGITAL BOARD #3 (32): 1-Tayfun Mataracıi, 2/6-Marin Dikov (Bulgaria) / Mohammad Seifollahi (Iran) / Honza Cerny (Czechia) / Sefik Gedikoglu / Dursun Çetin; PR Ranking: 1-Honza Cerny (Czechia) (3.94), 2-Vala Jiri (Czechia) (5.01), 3-Fuat Erdag (5.10).
FMPR DIGITAL BOARD #4 (32): 1-Eva Zizkova (Czechia), 2/6: Aleksander Andreev (Bulgaria) / Argun Erkaya / Marin Dikov (Bulgaria) / Martin Filipi (Czechia) / Hamid Esmaili (Iran); PR Ranking: 1-Hamid Esmaili (Iran) (3.75), 2-Honza Cerny (Czechia) (4.36), 3-Atilla Inanli (5.11).
TEAM TOURNAMENT (44 teams): 1-ARKADAS: Nuray Sevimli / Ahmet Sevimli / Niyazi Ünlütürk / Janette Hodkingson (South Africa) / Osman Erkol, 2-THE ROCK: Burak Kaya / Abdullah Ser / Metin Erikler / Selahattin Hacioglu / Dursun Çetin, 3-UK SHARKS: Tim Parfitt / Aydın Kolçak / Andreas Anasastiou / Cem Kizilöz / John Kareyannis, 4-ZEUS (Romania): Anton Antoniadis / Cristinel Dragomir / Ciprian Radulescu / Gioni Munteanu / Georgi Dimitrov.
SPEED GAMMON (287): 1-Eyüp Borucu, 2-Iulian Darienco (Moldova), 3/10-Honza Cerny (Czechia) / Nuray Sevimli (Northern Cyprus) / Vasily Chemokhonenko (Russia) / Peter van Rooij (Netherlands) / Aleksei Tokarev (Russia) / Selim Onur Duyar / Atila Malçok / Ömral Yücel.
LADIES SPECIAL – SULTANS OF BACKGAMMON (55): 1-Selin Kurt, 2-Maya Peycheva (Bulgaria), 3/4-Damla Karal / Serpil Ertürk.
UBC ISTANBUL QUALIFIER (20): 1-Marc Olsen (Denmark), 2-Arash Afroozian (Iran).
ONE POINT #1 (64): 1-Erkan Karaman.
ONE POINT #2 (64): 1-Toni Wiegand (Germany).
ONE POINT #3 (64): 1-Gabi Forster (Germany).
ONE POINT #4 (64): 1-Asuman Evin Çatal (Germany).
ONE POINT #5 (64): 1-Aleksei Tokarev (Russia).
ONE POINT #6 (64): 1-Ali Olgun.
ONE POINT #7 (64): 1-Leni Zrnceva (North Macedonia).
ONE POINT #8 (64): 1-Faddoul Khoury (Lebanon).
ONE POINT #9 (64): 1-Kamel Guerbaa (France).
ONE POINT #10 (64): 1-Murat Kayatürk.
ONE POINT #11 (64): 1-Yigit Menderes Ellidokuzoglu.
ONE POINT #12 (64): 1-Iman Ghanaat Pishe Sanai (Netherlands).
ONE POINT #13 (64): 1-Saeid Hatemi (Iran).
ONE POINT #14 (64): 1-Bora Kanmaz.
ONE POINT #15 (64): 1-Mustafa Kara.
ONE POINT #16 (64): 1-Hamidreza Ardalani (Iran).
ONE POINT #17 (64): 1-Yavuz Kanmaz.
ONE POINT #18 (64): 1-Rayko Stamenov (Bulgaria).
ONE POINT #19 (64): 1-Sükrü Süvarioglu.
ONE POINT #20 (64): 1-Ömral Yücel.
ONE POINT #21 (64): 1-Ersin Arslan.
ONE POINT #22 (64): 1-Mustafa Uysal.
ONE POINT #23 (64): 1-Mert Uluç.
ONE POINT #24 (64): 1-Özgür Çaliskan.
ONE POINT #25 (64): 1-Selim Akkus.
ONE POINT #26 (64): 1-Yilmaz Çakir.
ONE POINT #27 (64): 1-Hans Fenzel (Germany).
ONE POINT #28 (64): 1-Ömer Morali.
ONE POINT #29 (64): 1-Ivan M. Ivanov (Bulgaria).
ONE POINT #30 (64): 1-Bernd Schmidt (Germany).
ONE POINT #31 (64): 1-Murat Gül.
ONE POINT #32 (64): 1-Ozan Gündogdu.
DMP SUPER FINAL (32 from 2048 players): 1-Bernd Schmidt (Germany).
2025 SUPER FINAL: Mertcan Uslu.
THE BEST GUESS OF TOURNAMENT ATTENDANCE: Ali Çetin Belene.
SPECIAL PLAYER AWARDS: Mohammad Amin Shafiee (Iran), Yildirim Oral Cebe, Muhsin Yayintas, Ali Olgun, Seçkin Yavas.
FMBGT: 24th CYPRUS OPEN BACKGAMMON TOURNAMENT
April 3-5, 2026; Nicosia, Northern Cyprus
OPEN (138): 1-Murat Hazır (Türkiye), 2-Dagfinn Snarheim (Norway), 3-Ali Çetin Belene (Türkiye), 4/5-Yousef Abdollahnezhad (Iran), Amin Shahvalizadeh (Iran), 6/7-Ali Haydar Bayar (Türkiye) / Tobias Hellwag (Germany) 8/12 Yaşar Karamahmutoğlu (Türkiye), Minh Nguyen (France), Salih Kayalı (Northern Cyprus), İbrahim Karaca (Türkiye), Bülent Erciyas (Türkiye). 1C-Mahir Vural (Türkiye), 2C-İsmail Güçlü (Türkiye); 1LC-Finn Bahn (Denmark), 2LC-Dag Ekmark (Norway).
SUPER JACKPOT (58): 1-Christopher Wagener (Germany), 2-Ciortan Radu (Romania), 3/4-Ricardo Malas (Lebanon), Aykut Keskin (Türkiye)
SPEEDGAMMON #3 (22): 1-Emir Egemen Gürsu (Türkiye), 2-Erkan Nayir (Türkiye)
SPEEDGAMMON #4 (40): 1-Anıl Durukan (Türkiye), 2-Hakan Çınal (Türkiye)
SPEEDGAMMON #5 (32): 1-Selin Kurt (Türkiye), 2-Ali Haydar Bayar (Türkiye).
LADIES TOURNAMENT (6): 1-Marianne Husum (Norway)
SPECIAL PLAYER AWARD: Josefin Bichler (Germany)
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the Pasha Group staff for hosting this tournament.
Thanks Awards:
Eylül Özbilen, Ahmet Sevinç, Yetkin Oskay
FMBGT: 4th GRAND PASHA OPEN BACKGAMMON TOURNAMENT
April 1-2, 2026; Nicosia, Northern Cyprus
OPEN (87): 1-Shahin Nejat (Iran), 2-Andre Abi Haidar (Lebanon), 3-Julian Becker (Germany), 4- Tobias Hellwag (Germany), 5- Dagfinn Snarheim (Norway), 6/10 Mehrdad Goodarzi (Iran), Jon Kristian Royset (Norway), Simon Pankvelashvili (Georgia), Nodar Gagua (Georgia), Omid Badiei (Sweden)
CONSULTING DOUBLES (44 teams): 1-Hamid Esmaeili (Iran) & Atena Zakizadeh (Iran), 2-Mertcan Uslu (Türkiye) & Batuhan Çil (Türkiye), 3-Pouya Rajabi (Iran) & Amin Shahvalizadeh (Iran) 4/5 Abdullah Şer & Kemal Erdem (Türkiye) / Marianne Husum & Dagfinn Snarheim (Norway)
SPEEDGAMMON #1 (61): 1-Ricardo Malas (Lebanon)
SPEEDGAMMON #2 (37): 1-Ciortan Radu (Romania)
SPECIAL PLAYER AWARDS: Marianne Husum (Norway)
FMBGT: 8th FMGAMMON OPEN BACKGAMMON TOURNAMENT
November 28-30, 2025
OPEN: (179) 1-Hakan Çınal, 2-Atilla İnanlı,3- Kadir Dedeoğlu, 4- Rad Malekniazi(Iran) 5/6- Gökhan Şen / Bahattin Uzunoğlu. LC: 1- Barbaros Akyar, 2-Doğan Sunar.
Consulting Doubles (32) 1-Aleksandar Andreev(Bulgaria)& Self, 2-Sedat Emirgan & İbrahim Koç.
2025/10th Digital Board Tournament (39) 1- Jean Abi Haidar (Lebanon), 2-Ali Haydar Bayar, 3- Hakan Bozkurt, 4-Kemal Acar.
PR Rankings: 1- Kadir Dedeoğlu (3.46), 2-Ali Haydar Bayar (3.47), 3-Hakan Çınal (3.78), 4-Cüneyt Argun Genç (4.16).<
2025/11th Digital Board Tournament (49) 1-Georgi Kurtev (Bulgaria), 2-Karim Abou Absi (Lebanon), 3-Ertan Kazkayası, 4/5 Mert Yavuz / Jean Abi Haıdar (Lebanon)
PR Rankings: 1- Aykut Keskin (2.84), 2-Sina JORJANI (Iran) (4.53), 3-Şefik Gedikoğlu (4.82), 4-Aleksandar Andreev (Bulgaria) (5.21),
One Point (DMP) (64) 1-Dler WALY (Iraq)
FMBGT: 3rd GRAND PASHA OPEN BACKGAMMON TOURNAMENT
November 2-4, 2025 Nicosia, Northern Cyprus
OPEN (169): 1- Amir Golegolab (Iran); 2-Faddoul Khoury (Lebanon) 3/4- Maya Peycheva (Bulgaria), Ralf Jonas (Germany); 5/7-Volker Sonnabend (Germany), Rolf Vetsch (Switzerland), Ali Çetin Belene (Türkiye); 8/11- Ralf Koch (Germany), Metin Çubuk (Türkiye), Phil Simborg (USA), Saeed Ahmedi (Iran); 12/19- Mikael Vardanyan (Russia), Koray Ağırbaş (USA), Ümit Bandeoğlu (Türkiye), Nariman Rezapour (Iran), Ozan Özgür (Türkiye), Vaidas Budrys (Lithuania), Tobias Hellwag (Germany), Thomas Kazemieh (Germany); 1C-Mehrdad Goodarzi (Iran), 2C-Arash Afrooziyan (Iran); 1LC-Aleksandar Lazarevski (Serbia), 2LC-Nariman Rezapour (Iran).
SUPER CONSULTING DOUBLES (48 Teams): 1-Tillman Söhnchen (Germany) & Tobias Hellwag (Germany), 2- Fernando Neumark (Argentina) & Diego Heidenreich (Argentina) 3/4- Amirali Tavakoli (Iran) & Hossein Aghili (Iran), Leonid Riskin (Germany) & Sergey Djakonov (Ukraine)
SUPER JACKPOT (30): 1-Yurii Vatsyk (Ukraine), 2-Nodar Gagua (Georgia)
SPEEDGAMMON (63): 1-Ali Haydar Bayar (Türkiye), 2-Cihangir Çetinel (Türkiye),
AFTER TOURNAMENT (16): 1-Dinos Koukiaris (Greece)
SPECIAL PLAYER AWARDS: Gülşah Altıntaş, Mehmet Ağırbaş, Eylül Özbilen, Ahmet Sevinç, Ali Kahraman
FMBGT: 23rd CYPRUS OPEN BACKGAMMON TOURNAMENT
October 29 – November 1, 2025 Nicosia, Northern Cyprus
OPEN (269): 1-Amir Golegolab (Iran), 2-Mads Andersen (Denmark), 3-Deniz Bahçıvan (Türkiye), 4-İsmail Dönmez (Türkiye), 5-Okan Koçak (Türkiye), 6/9-Hasret Bekar (Türkiye), Toni Bernaba (Lebanon), Andre Abi Haidar (Lebanon), Julian Becker (Germany), 10/15- Willi Preskar (Croatia), Ciortan Radu (Romania), Arash Afrooziyan (Iran), Yacov Omrad (Israel), Gabi Menasherov (Israel), Manfred Sierke (Portugal), 16/25- Geir Pedersen (Norway), Burak Yildirim (Türkiye), David Wells (England), Timur Azizov (Russia), Akbar Pourhaji (Iran), Mikael Vardanyan (Russia), Halil Sancak (TRNC), Atillan İnanlı (Türkiye), Cihangir Çetinel (Türkiye), Shay Asraff (Israel); 1C-Eli Rad (Iran), 2C-Jalil Khalili (Iran); 1LC-Eren Sarikaya (Türkiye), 2LC-Hakan Rüstem (TRNC).
CONSULTING DOUBLES (78 Teams): 1-Mete Demirsoy (Türkiye) & Barbaros Akyar (Türkiye), 2-Mads Andersen (Denmark) & Morten Holm (Denmark), 3- Ramaz Ukleba (Georgia) & Gia Rizinashvili (Israel) 4/6- Burak Yildirim (Türkiye) & İsmail Dönmez (Türkiye), Jakob Garal (Ukraine) & Yurii Vatsyk (Ukraine), Revaz Tskhovrebashvili (Georgia)
SUPER JACKPOT (75): 1-Selin Kurt (Türkiye), 2-Ralf Koch (Germany) 3- Kemal Erdem (Türkiye)
SPEEDGAMMON #1 (98): 1-Cihangir Çetinel (Türkiye), 2-Hamid Esmaili (Iran)
SPEEDGAMMON #2 (86): 1-Ashkan Yahyazadeh (Iran), 2-Dagfinn Snarheim (Norway)
LADIES TOURNAMENT (14): 1- Akiko Yazawa (Japan), 2-Ayla Karmen Aydin (Türkiye)
SPECIAL PLAYER AWARD: Nodar Gagua (Georgia)
GREAT THANKS: Eylül Özbilen, Ahmet Sevinç, Ali Kahraman
FMBGT: 7th FMGAMMON OPEN TOURNAMENT
September 12-14, 2025; Istanbul, Türkiye
OPEN (119): 1-Emircan Sisik, 2-Damla Karal, 3-Hakan Ergüç, 4-Georgi Kurtev (Bulgaria), 5/7-Alpay Aykol / Ibrahim Karaca / Mert Yavuz; 1LC-Imran Süngü, 2-Mithat Vedat Gökgöz.
CONSULTING DOUBLES (24 teams): 1/3-Mehmet Ali Akpolat & Ali Çetin Belene / Alpay Aykol & Gencay Aykol / Berk Eksioglu & Faruk Han.
8th DIGITAL BOARD TOURNAMENT #1 (39): 1-Ismail Bilgili, 2-Sedat Emirgan, 3-Selim Onur Duyar, 4/5-Mehmet Ali Akpolat / Ümit Tanoglu. PR Rankings: 1-Cüneyt Argun Genç at 3.75, 2-Hakan Ergüç at 4.33, 3-Dinçer Günes at 4.71.
9th DIGITAL BOARD TOURNAMENT #2 (49): 1-Emir Egemen Gürsu, 2-Selim Onur Duyar, 3-Burak Kaya, 4/6-Fuat Erdag / Dinçer Günes / Okan Koçak. PR Rankings: 1/2-Mehmet Ali Akpolat at 4.14 / Alper Morhayim at 4.14, 3-Hamidreza Ardalani (Iran) at 4.45, 4-Cüneyt Argun Genç at 4.97.
ONE POINT (DMP) (64): 1-Okan Koçak.
SPEEDGAMMON (23): 1-Ismail Köknar, 2-Özcan Oranç.
FMBGT: 6th FMGAMMON OPEN TOURNAMENT
August 29-31, 2025; Istanbul, Türkiye
OPEN (167): 1-Oktay Lökbas, 2-Aziz Çelikkaya, 3-Dinçer Günes, 4/6-Argun Erkaya / Sakir Kemik / Abdurrahman Tolgahan Yilmaz; 1LC-Can Gümüs, 2LC-Tunç Çelik.
CONSULTING DOUBLES (32 teams): 1-Baris Güven Gökçe & Ismail Köknar, 2-Taner Kandirali & Emircan Sisik.
6th DIGITAL BOARD TOURNAMENT (39): 1-Batuhan Çil, 2-Faruk Han, 3/4 Cüneyt Argun Genç / Osman Ahmet Nemli. PR Rankings: 1-Cüneyt Argun Genç at 3.97, 2-Taner Kandirali at 4.37, 3-Argun Erkaya at 4.43.
7th DIGITAL BOARD TOURNAMENT (39): 1-Asur Yildirim, 2-Mehmet Güme, 3-Fuat Erdag, 4/5 Erdinç Bayindir / Mertcan Uslu. PR Rankings: 1-Ali Çetin Belene at 2.49, 2-Hakan Çinal at 3.26, 3-Cüneyt Argun Genç at 3.61.
ONE POINT / DMP (64): 1-Burak Törer.
FMBGT: 5th FMGAMMON OPEN TOURNAMENT
June 27-29, 2025; Istanbul, Türkiye
OPEN (187): 1-Cüneyt Argun Genç, 2-Georgi Kurtev (Bulgaria) 3-Gencay Akyol, 4/6 Mike Ireland (England) / Fatih Kiliç / Bülent Yorulmaz. 1LC-Refik Vural, 2-Efe Ercem.
CONSULTING DOUBLES (32 teams): 1-Jalal Dehestanlangroudi (Iran) & Mirhedayat Hashemifar (Iran) 2-Kenan Dal & Osman Ahmet Nemli.
4th DIGITAL BOARD TOURNAMENT (39): 1-Mert Yavuz, 2-Hakan Ergüç, 3-Umur Aras, 4-Okan Koçak. PR Rankings: 1-Umur Aras at 3.42, 2-Ibrahim Karaca at 4.56, 3-Ibrahim Eren Sarikaya at 4.76, 4-Hakan Ergüç at 4.88.
5th DIGITAL BOARD TOURNAMENT (39): 1-Burak Kaya, 2-Alpay Akyol, 3-Mertcan Uslu, 4-Ismail Bilgili. PR Rankings: 1-Ali Çetin Belene at 3.07, 2-Hakan Cinal at 3.53, 3-Burak Hakki at 5.06, 4-Hamidreza Ardalani (Iran) at 5.76.
ONE-POINT / DMP (64): 1-Oguz User.
FMBGT: 4th FMGAMMON OPEN BACKGAMMON TOURNAMENT
March 15-16, 2025; Yesilköy, Istanbul, Türkiye
OPEN (158): 1-Atahan Aydin, 2-Mehmet Hulusi Tümer, 3-Sefik Gedikoglu, 4-Mehrdad Jeyranzadeh (Iran), 5/6-Ilhan Koç / Çise Özdogan, 7/9-Baris Akengin / Yücel Niego / Erkan Yüksel; 1LC-Canberk Kazaz, 2LC-Ibrahim Koç.
CONSULTING DOUBLES (16 teams): 1-Hakan Çinal & Canberk Kazaz, 2-Mehmet Güme & Emircan Sisik.
ONE POINT (DMP) #1 (64): 1-Oktay Kurhan.
ONE POINT (DMP) #2 (64): 1-Hülya Karakaya.
3rd FM PR DIGITAL BOARD TOURNAMENT (32): 1-Okan Koçak, 2-Cüneyt Argun Genç, 3/4-Hakan Çinal / Ibrahim Eren Sankaya. PR Rankings: 1-Ali Çetin Belene at 3.67, 2-Onur Ihtiyar at 3.70, 3-Cüneyt Argun Genç at 3.73, 4-Atilla Inanli at 4.17, 5-Hakan Çinal at 4.88, 6-Ibrahim Karaca at 5.07, 7-Ibrahim Eren Sarikaya at 5.64.