List of World Backgammon Champions - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The following is a List of World Backgammon
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Champions:

Year	Name	Country	Tournament Location
1967	Tim Holland Tim Holland (backgammon) Tim Holland was a world-champion backgammon player, highly-compensated teacher of the game, author of three backgammon books and successful gambler who has won more major backgammon tournaments than anyone in history....	United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	Las Vegas Las Vegas metropolitan area The Las Vegas Valley is the heart of the Las Vegas-Paradise, NV MSA also known as the Las Vegas–Paradise–Henderson MSA which includes all of Clark County, Nevada, and is a metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada. The Valley is defined by the Las Vegas Valley landform, a ...
1968	Tim Holland	United States	Las Vegas
1969	Alice Topping	United States	Las Vegas
1970	no championship
1971	Tim Holland	United States	Las Vegas
1972	Oswald Jacoby Oswald Jacoby Oswald Jacoby was an American contract bridge player and author, considered one of the greatest bridge players of all time. He also excelled at, and wrote about, other games including backgammon, gin rummy, and poker.Born in Brooklyn, he was taught to play whist at the age of six and played his...	United States	Las Vegas
1973	Carol Crawford	United States	Las Vegas
1974	Claude Beer	United States	Las Vegas
1975	Billy Eisenberg Billy Eisenberg William Eisenberg is an American bridge and backgammon professional. In bridge, Eisenberg has won five Bermuda Bowl world team titles and in backgammon he won the world title in 1975...	United States	Bahamas
1976	Baron Vernon Ball	United States	Bahamas
1976	Joe Dwek	United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	Monte Carlo Monte Carlo Monte Carlo is an administrative area of the Principality of Monaco....
1977	Ken Goodman Ken Goodman Kenneth Goodman is Professor Emeritus, Language Reading and Culture, at the University of Arizona. He is best known for developing the theory underlying the literacy philosophy of whole language.- Biography :...	United States	Bahamas
1977	Jean Noel Grinda	France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...	Monte Carlo
1978	Paul Magriel Paul Magriel Paul David Magriel Jr. is an American professional backgammon player, poker player and author based in Las Vegas, Nevada.-Chess:Paul was New York State Junior Chess Champion at the age of 19, while a student at New York University....	United States	Bahamas
1978	Richard de Surmont	France	Monte Carlo
1979	Luigi Villa Luigi Villa Luigi Villa is a backgammon player from Milan, Italy. In 1979, he was the winner of the World Championship held in Monte Carlo.The same year, he was defeated in a 7-point match by Hans Berliner's computer program BKG 9.8, becoming the first world champion in any board game to be defeated by a...	Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...	Monte Carlo
1980	Walter Coratella	Mexico Mexico The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...	Monte Carlo
1981	Lee Genud	United States	Monte Carlo
1982	Jacques Michel	Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....	Monte Carlo
1983	Bill Robertie Bill Robertie Bill Robertie is a backgammon, chess, and poker player and author. He is one of three backgammon players to have won the Monte Carlo World Backgammon Championship twice . Robertie also won the Pro-Am in the Bahamas in the year 1993 and the Istanbul World Cup in 1994. In chess, Robertie won the 1970...	United States	Monte Carlo
1984	Mike Svobodny	United States	Monte Carlo
1985	Charles-Henri Sabet Charles-Henri Sabet Charles-Henri Sabet was born in 1961 in Lausanne in Switzerland-Education:He did most of his studies in Lausanne, where he won with Lausanne Sport the under 18 Junior Swiss Team Championship-Career:...	Italy	Monte Carlo
1986	Clement Palacci	Italy	Monte Carlo
1987	Bill Robertie	United States	Monte Carlo
1988	Phillip Marmorstein	Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...	Monte Carlo
1989	Joe Russell Joe Russell Joseph Russell is a professional backgammon player from Los Angeles, California.He is a founding sponsor and a member of the board of directors of the U.S. Backgammon Federation, where he serves on it's Executive Committee and is chairman of it's Education Committee.He is a former World Champion...	United States	Monte Carlo
1990	Hal Heinrich	Canada Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...	Monte Carlo
1991	Michael Meyburg	Germany	Monte Carlo
1992	Ion Ressu	Romania Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...	Monte Carlo
1993	Peter Jes Thomsen	Denmark Denmark Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...	Monte Carlo
1994	Frank Frigo	United States	Monte Carlo
1995	David Ben-Zion	Israel Israel The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...	Monte Carlo
1996	David Nahmad David Nahmad David Nahmad is a fine art dealer and billionaire. A descendant of a Jewish Lebanese art family residing in Monaco, he and his relations are perhaps the single biggest buying force in fine art...	Israel	Monte Carlo
1997	Jerry Grandell	Sweden Sweden Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....	Monte Carlo
1998	Michael Meyburg	Germany	Monte Carlo
1999	Jörgen Granstedt	Sweden	Monte Carlo
2000	Katie Scalamandre	United States	Monte Carlo
2001	Jörgen Granstedt	Sweden	Monte Carlo
2002	Mads Andersen Mads Andersen Mads Andersen is a poker and backgammon player from Copenhagen, Denmark. Before making his mark in the poker world, Andersen won the 2002 World Backgammon Championships. Andersen won the European Poker Tour second season Scandinavian Open where he outlasted the field to take home DKr 2,548,040....	Denmark	Monte Carlo
2003	Jon Kristian Røyset	Norway Norway Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...	Monte Carlo
2004	Peter Hallberg	Denmark	Monte Carlo
2005	Dennis Carlston	United States	Monte Carlo
2006	Philip Vischjager Philip Vischjager Philip Vischjager is a Dutch backgammon player. Although he began playing backgammon in 1975, he started training more intensively using computer software in 2001. At the same time, he became a regular participant in Dutch backgammon competitions at the highest national levels...	Netherlands Netherlands The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...	Monte Carlo
2007	Jorge Pan Jorge Pan Jorge Alberto Pan is an Argentine backgammon player. In 2007, Pan won the 32nd World Backgammon Championship held in Monte Carlo. Pan is the first South American to win the backgammon world title.Pan is a lawyer and lives in Argentina....	Argentina Argentina Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...	Monte Carlo
2008	Lars Trabolt	Denmark	Monte Carlo
2009	Masayuki Mochizuki	Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...	Monte Carlo
2010	Lars Bentzon	Denmark	Monte Carlo
2011	Takumitsu Suzuki	Japan	Monte Carlo

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