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Backgammon NewsJanuary 13, 2009ABT New York Metropolitan Backgammon Open2009 in backgammon was officially launched with the traditional New York Metropolitan Backgammon Open, the first ABT event of every year. The four-days backgammon tournament was championed by New Yorker Victor Ashkenazi, who defeated fellow townsman Rick Barabino. In fact, Californian Steve Sax is the only non-New Yorker of the top 4. If you look at all of the Championship Division winner and familiar with Israeli Falafel Natanzon background as a street chess and backgammon hustler in New York parks (where he was nicknamed Falafel), unless Sax and Dane Pernille Rosendal (afterall, no backgammon championship is completed without a delegate of the Danish Kingdom), you could say that New Yorkers championed the ABT New York Metropolitan Backgammon Open this year. 2009 New York Metropolitan Backgammon Open did not take place in New York but in Jersey City, New Jersey, at the Hyatt Regency on the Hudson, between January 8th and 11th, 2009. As usual, the ABT event contained of several tournaments and side events including the New York Doubles championship, featuring 32 teams (eventually won by Matt Cohn-Geier of California and internet backgammon leading lady Carol Joy Cole of Michigan), the Liberty Cup Masters (championed again by a local player – Chris Trencher), and the Seniors Tournament, designed for 50+ backgammon players (where Al Holis credited another victory to the State of New York). The next ABT events for 2009 are the 9th Annual Carolina Invitational and Pittsburgh Backgammon Championship. Courtesy of Charlotte Backgammon Club, the backgammon tournament will be held on January 16-18, 2009 at the Hilton University Place, in Charlotte, North Carolina. Coming up also the long awaited final of the Partouche Gammon Tour in the beginning of February.
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