Vyacheslav Pryadkin vs. Lars Trabolt
Final Round, 25-point match
2013-Aug-11

The Finals are scheduled for Sunday (today) at 2:30 p.m. CEST.

• 5:30 a.m. PDT – Pacific Daylight Time (west coast of USA)
• 8:30 a.m. EDT – Eastern Daylight Time (east coast of USA)
• 1:30 p.m. BST – British Summer Time
• 2:30 p.m. CEST – Central European Summer Time (Monte Carlo)

With luck, there will be a live video broadcast on the web site’s stream page:

Backgammon World Championship
Monte Carlo
http://www.bwcmc.com/stream.php

Here are the XG match files of the two semifinal matches:

Vyacheslav Pryadkin-Ensio Einola Tero
Semifinal Round, 23-point match
2013-Aug-10

PR 4.44 Vyacheslav Pryadkin
PR 8.98 Ensio Einola Tero

http://bwcmc.com/matches/2013/Slava%...010-08-2013.xg

Petko Kostadinov-Lars Trabolt
Semifinal Round, 23-point match
2013-Aug-10

PR 6.38 Petko Kostadinov
PR 3.78 Lars Trabolt

http://bwcmc.com/matches/2013/Petko%...13%20replay.xg

MAT files, for GnuBg and Snowie users, can be found in Othello’s database of backgammon matches by searching for “World Championship Semifinal”:

http://itikawa.com/kifdb/herodb.cgi?table=bg

No searching is required today, however, because these two matches are at the top of the list.

Enjoy.

Mike

Is there something planned like a live commentary?Maybe Falafel?

Don’t know about the finals.

During the semifinals that were streamed yesterday, there was nothing like that.

Mike

Match just starting now.

Falafel is giving commentary.

Mike

Aaaaaand if you ever need reminding how utterly gut wrenchingly brutal backgammon actually is just watching that final game over and over should do it...

I watched the entire match - it was pretty wild, and a good learning experience too. I examined some of the more interesting moves with GNU (I don't have Extreme Gammon - yet) and it was interesting to see the elite players aren't exactly machine perfect either.

Thanks Mike!