Hi!
The other day I stumbled upon the Merit Open youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4_...Yw_vxVQ/videos
and to my surprise many matches were missing from Backgammon Studio! :-)
But the hunt for Merit Open matches is coming along nicely! I have received several matches from Giorgos Kleitsas, Volker Sonnabend, Gaz Owen, Florin Popa, Jacek Wojciechowski, davidprimo. A big thanks to everyone!
Michy vs Giorgos Kleitsas (I think Michy transcribed this one)
Akiko Yazawa - Jacek Wojciechowski
Bob Wachtel (US) R - Cüneyt Argun Genç (TR) B
Bob Wachtel - Máté Fehér 5pt Merit Open 2016.11.03 warmup R2
Zdenek Zizka - Máté Fehér 5pt Merit Open 2016.11.05 warmup R1
Jörgen Granstedt - Florin Popa
Athanasios Katsios (GREECE) B - Paul Gilbertson (UK) R
Athanasios Katsios (GRE) R - Thomas Löw (GER) B
Laura Monaco (ITA) (B) - Gaz Owen (ENG) (R)
GAZ OWEN (ENG) (R) - LEON DOREL (ROM) (B)
GAZ OWEN (ENG) (B) - LEON DOREL (ROM) (R)
GAZ OWEN (ENG) (R) - JAKOP GARAL (UKR) (B)
J.Simonsen (DEN) (B) - G.Owen (ENG) (R)
Thomas Kazemieh/Philip Kazemieh (Germany) B - Rainer Witt/Volker Sonnabend (Germany) R
Dario Bertola/Daniel Tudose R - Rainer Witt/Volker Sonnabend B
I have also started to transcribe some matches myself:
K. MITRELIS (GRE) (R) - C.LIEBE-HARKORT (GER) (B)
Rickard Persson (SE) (R) - Konrad Froschl (GER) (B)
Cüneyt Argun Genç (TR) B - Maya Peycheva (BG) R
Athanasios Katsios (GREECE) B - Paul Gilbertson (UK) R
Athanasios Katsios (GRE) R - Thomas Löw (GER) B
Now there are only 101 matches left to transcribe/locate! :-) If you have any of these matches or would like to transcribe some let me know! I suspect Mochy, Michy and Akiko matches have already been transcribed though (but it is a nice learning experience to transcribe matches so it is not a big loss if you transcribe a match which has already been transcribed).
I created a page for the currently missing matches:
https://www.backgammonstudio.com/meritopenmissing.html
A better place to look for these is in the "other action/match videos" section on Backgammon Studio where you can assign matches to yourself and then later upload the match once you're done:
https://www.backgammonstudio.com The swiss army knife of backgammon!
Best regards,
TP