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FMBGT- 15th ISTAVDER ANNIVERSARY BACKGAMMON FEAST / UBC ISTANBUL CONTENDER
April 24-30, 2023; Istanbul, Turkey

UBC ISTANBUL 2023 CONTENDER TOURNAMENT (24): 1- Masayuki Mochizuki (Japan)  2-Zdenek Zizka (Czech Republic), 3/4-Dirk Schiemann (Germany) / Dagfinn Snarheim (Norway),.

CHAMPIONSHIP (668): 1-Soinguli Amirov (Georgia), 2- Mehmet Çakıcı (KKTC), 3-Atilla İnanlı, 4-Amir Abbas Pourbozorg (Iran) 5-Aziz Çelikkaya 6-Caner Çam, 7-Hadi Nesim (Iran),8-Samet Kurtulmuş, 9-Doğan Celal (KKTC),10-Tan Bostan, 11-Samet Karapıçak, 12-Jakob Garal (Ukraine), 13-Aref Alipour(Iran), 14-Cüneyt Gürbüz, 15-Ekrem Başdaş (Germany), 16-Marc B.Olsen (Denmark), 17-Marsel Eskinazi, 18- Marcal Geist (Germany), 19-Justin Nowell (USA), 20-Ali Çetin Belene, 21-Oliver Squire (USA),         22-Barbaros Akyar. 1C-Nevzat Doğan (Denmark), 2C-Bogidar Ilıev (Bulgaria); LC ½ Pouya Rajabi & Chiva K.Tafazzoli (Iran).

“UMUT GÖKGÖZ”CONSULTATION DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP (164 teams): 1-Pauya Rajabi & Roohollah Amiri Andy (Iran).  2- Ricardo Malas & Anis Samaha (Lebanon). ¾ April Mesich& Michael Mesich (USA) / Pourya Mahoti & Hussein Khushsefat (Iran)

BALKAN BACKGAMMON TOUR 2023 : 1-Atilla İnanlı, 2- Aziz Çelikkaya.

LADIES SPECIAL TOURNAMENT (66): 1-Aysel Güzel, 2-Zeynep Serap Işım.

SPEEDGAMMON (171): 1-Amir Farajpour (Iran), 2-Nima Shahsavar (Iran).

Total 2048 Participation DMP SUPER FINAL (32) : 1-Petyo Marinov (Bulgaria).

DMP POINTS (All 64):  #1 : Can Çağ (England).  #2 : Aydın Kolçak (England). #3:Cassidy Nelson (England). #4: Iordan Marinov (Bulgaria). #5 İsmail Güçlü. #6 Tunç Çelik.  #7 Bahattin Uzunoğlu.  #8 Amirali Asadi (Iran). #9 Onur İhtiyar. #10 Behzad Keşhavarzi (Iran). #11 Gürsel Dinçbilek.  #12 Mehmet Ali Akpolat. #13 Meisam Pourtaghi (Iran). #14Ubeyde Oğuz Esen. #15 Mohammadhassan Aghaei. #16 Heribert Lindner (Germany). #17 Parsa Abedini (Iran). #18 Kağan Karakaya . #19 Kadir Filikçi.  #20 Petyo Marinov.  #21 Adel Pourabdollahzadeh (Iran). #22 Stotycho Naydenov (Bulgaria). #23 Anis Samaha (Lebanon). #24 Hasan Canpolat. #25 Mustafa Kemal Arslan.  #26 Selim Ateş.  #27 Mehmet H.Tümer. #28 Reza Ranjbar (Iran). #29 Ali Yousefi (Iran) #30 Aykut Keskin. #31 Ali Ağırbaş. #32 Özcan Oranç.

TEAM CHALLENGE ( 43 teams): 1-Team ROMANIA: Iordache Mihail Andrei, Paun Andreea Gabriela, Paun Andrei Christian, Radu Nelu, Boghiu Sorin.  2-Team BERLIN BEARS: (Germany) Vitali Olchanski,Faruk Kocaer, Guido Weidner,Richard Fiegen, leonid Riskin (Ukranie).  3- Team VIKINGS: Elena Gromenkova (Russia), Bjorn Kroghsbo (Denmark) Juliya Gromenkova (Russia), Kaj Damgaard Nielsen (Denmark) Kenan Hasanzade (Azerbaijan)

THE YOUNGEST PLAYER AWARD : Arsenii Khriplyvets (Ukraine)

HONOR AWARDS: A.Kamil Baykaloğulları, Argun Erkaya, Petyo Marinov (Bulgaria), Ali Olgun, Michael Weidner (Germany), Masayuki Mochizuki (Japan),

SPONSORSHIP & PARTNERSHIP AWARDS: Tue Rasmussen (Denmark) & Galaxy Backgammon Team, Ziya Cihan & WOW Hotels, Vedat Erbaş &  Pasha Casino, Süleyman Orakçıoğlu& D’S DAMAT, Süleyman Yurtseven& ÖzRize Gıda,FmGammon.

SPECIAL PLAYER AWARDS: Roberto Gaui (Brazil), April Mesich(USA),Daniel Dos Santos Costa (Australia), Kazuko Numazawa (Japan), Dagfinn Snarheim (Norway), Pauya Rajabi (Iran), Eva Zizkova( Czech Rep.), Phil Simborg (USA), Bill Riles (USA), Faruk Kocaer, Frank Farjood (USA), Tim Parfitt (USA), Burak Hakkı.