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Backgammon Tournament in Ghent, Belgium February 11th, 2024 - Live Coverage Replay Swiss Format: 7 Rounds x 7pt Matches Tournament Director: Bert Van Kerckhove Streaming, Graphics and Live XG-feed: Rain Want to support ? https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RainBG

Legendary Match with Commentary & XG Feed, Falafel vs Mochy, 13 Point Match. Video "FALAFEL CRUSHES MOCHY !!" by Rain This is a try-out on doing commentary on a backgammon match while transcribing the match in eXtreme Gammon. This video is created for entertainment purpose, do not expect a master-class, spontaneously talking my thoughts/interacting while watching and transcribing this legendary match. Enjoy! --- Rain XG-Boards ========== I create Top-Notch Graphics for use in eXtreme Gammon For examples and more info in the description below this video: Title: eXtreme Gammon - XG Boards - High Resolution Graphics https://rumble.com/vnbp59-extreme-gammon-xg-boards-high-resolution-graphics.html Custom XG-Boards available on request --- Footage: NYMO2017R3-USBGF Mochy interview-Inesbell Falafel interview-Erez Naveh Music:Stellar Wind(yt-library)

Commentary by Michel Lamote & Daniel Sørensen, Day 4, Sunday 9 February 11am, Backgammon Gibraltar Championship 2020. Ralf Jonas(DE) vs Dagfinn Snarheim(NO), 19pt match, Semi-Final. Content of original stream: Gibraltar Backgammon Championship Thanks and credits to the Danish Backgammon Federation and the technical staff who did an incredible job for high-quality broadcasting of top level backgammon matches. Thanks to Michel Lamote(BE) & Daniel Sørensen(DK) for their interesting commentary. Additional graphics/intro/outro: Rain eXtreme Gammon - XG --------------------------------------- XG is an amazing software/tool for analyzing Backgammon matches/positions. It is used by most of the world-top-players (Backgammon Giants). The program shows you the best mathematical decisions in any circumstances.

Commentary by Michel Lamote & Daniel Sørensen, Day 3, Saturday 8 February 11am, Backgammon Gibraltar Championship 2020. Chris Rogers(UK) vs Ralf Jonas(DE) 13pt match, Fighters Bracket. Content of original stream: Gibraltar Backgammon Championship Thanks and credits to the Danish Backgammon Federation and the technical staff who did an incredible job for high-quality broadcasting of top level backgammon matches. Thanks to Michel Lamote(BE) & Daniel Sørensen(DK) for their interesting commentary. Additional graphics/intro/outro: Rain This re-edited video is added with eXtreme Gammon analysis-clips for educational purpose. eXtreme Gammon - XG --------------------------------------- XG is an amazing software/tool for analyzing Backgammon matches/positions. It is used by most of the world-top-players (Backgammon Giants). The program shows you the best mathematical decisions in any circumstances.

Commentary by Michel Lamote, Day 2, Friday 7 February 4pm, Backgammon Gibraltar Championship 2020. Mislav Kovačić(HR) vs Eric McAlpine(UK) 13pt match, Fighters Bracket. With brief appearance of Michy(Michihito Kageyama(JP)) in the commentary booth. Content of original stream: Gibraltar Backgammon Championship Thanks and credits to the Danish Backgammon Federation and the technical staff who did an incredible job for high-quality broadcasting of top level backgammon matches. Thanks to Michel Lamote(BE) for his interesting commentary. Additional graphics/intro/outro: Rain This re-edited video is added with eXtreme Gammon analysis-clips for educational purpose. eXtreme Gammon - XG --------------------------------------- XG is an amazing software/tool for analyzing Backgammon matches/positions. It is used by most of the world-top-players (Backgammon Giants). The program shows you the best mathematical decisions in any circumstances.

Commentary by Michel Lamote & Dirk Schiemann, Day 3, Saturday 8 February 9pm, Backgammon Gibraltar Championship 2020. Christian Munk-Christensen(DK) vs Zdeněk Žižka(CZ), 17pt match, Quarter Final. Content of original stream: Gibraltar Backgammon Championship Thanks and credits to the Danish Backgammon Federation and the technical staff who did an incredible job for high-quality broadcasting of top level backgammon matches. Thanks to Michel Lamote(BE) & Dirk Schiemann(DE) for their interesting commentary. Additional graphics/intro/outro: Rain To support my channel: Like, Subscribe, Leave a Comment, Donate eXtreme Gammon - XG --------------------------------------- XG is an amazing software/tool for analyzing Backgammon matches/positions. It is used by most of the world-top-players (Backgammon Giants). The program shows you the best mathematical decisions in any circumstances.

Commentary by Michel Lamote, Day 1, Thursday 6 February 9pm, Backgammon Gibraltar Championship 2020. Petko Kostadinov(US/BG) vs Dag Ekmark(NO) 17pt match. Content of original stream: Gibraltar Backgammon Championship Thanks and credits to the Danish Backgammon Federation and the technical staff who did an incredible job for high-quality broadcasting of top level backgammon matches. Thanks to Michel Lamote(BE) for his interesting commentary. Additional graphics/intro/outro: Rain This re-edited video is added with eXtreme Gammon analysis-clips for educational purpose. To support my channel: Like, Subscribe, Leave a Comment, Donate eXtreme Gammon - XG --------------------------------------- XG is an amazing software/tool for analyzing Backgammon matches/positions. It is used by most of the world-top-players (Backgammon Giants). The program shows you the best mathematical decisions in any circumstances.

Commentary by Michel Lamote & Jürgen Orlowski, Day 1, Thursday 6 February 4pm, Backgammon Gibraltar Championship 2020. "Vintage" Thomas Myhr(DK) vs Chris Rogers(UK) 17pt. Content of original stream: Gibraltar Backgammon Championship Thanks and credits to the Danish Backgammon Federation and the technical staff who did an incredible job for high-quality broadcasting of top level backgammon matches. Thanks to Michel Lamote(BE) & Jürgen Orlowski(DE) for their interesting commentary. Additional graphics/intro/outro: Rain This re-edited video is added with eXtreme Gammon analysis-clips for educational purpose. To support my channel: Like, Subscribe, Leave a Comment, Donate eXtreme Gammon - XG --------------------------------------- XG is an amazing software/tool for analyzing Backgammon matches/positions. It is used by most of the world-top-players (Backgammon Giants). The program shows you the best mathematical decisions in any circumstances.

Commentary by Michel Lamote, Day 1, Thursday 6 February 11am, Backgammon Gibraltar Championship 2020. Masayuki Mochizuki(JP) vs Sebastian Wilkinson(UK) Content of original stream: Gibraltar Backgammon Championship Thanks and credits to the Danish Backgammon Federation and the technical staff who did an incredible job for high-quality broadcasting of top-Backgammon matches. Thanks to Michel Lamote(BE) for his interesting commentary. Additional graphics/intro/outro: Rain This re-edited video is added with eXtreme Gammon analysis-clips for educational purpose. eXtreme Gammon - XG --------------------------------------- XG is an amazing software/tool for analyzing Backgammon matches/positions. It is used by most of the world-top-players (Backgammon Giants). The program shows you the best mathematical decisions in any circumstances.

Commentary by Michel Lamote, Daniel Sørensen, Jürgen Orlowski & Michael Larsen. Day 4, Sunday 9 February 4pm, Backgammon Gibraltar Championship 2020. Christian Munk-Christensen(DK) vs Dagfinn Snarheim(NO), 21pt match, Final. Content of original stream: Gibraltar Backgammon Championship Thanks and credits to the Danish Backgammon Federation and the technical staff who did an incredible job for high-quality broadcasting of top level backgammon matches. Thanks to Michel Lamote(BE), Daniel Sørensen(DK), Jürgen Orlowski(DE) & Michael Larsen(DK) for their interesting commentary. Additional graphics/intro/outro: Rain eXtreme Gammon - XG --------------------------------------- XG is an amazing software/tool for analyzing Backgammon matches/positions. It is used by most of the world-top-players (Backgammon Giants). The program shows you the best mathematical decisions in any circumstances.

Bert Van Kerckhove (BE) vs Christian Sørensen (DK/NL) + Commentary by Michel Lamote & XG Amazing Final match of the Vlissingen Blitz Masters Backgammon Tournament, Played in the Netherlands, Jan 14/15 2023. Tournament Coordinated by Paulus van Rooijen (NL) Day 1 : 9pt Matches, 5 Rounds Swiss System + 1 Round Playoffs Day 2 : 9pt Matches, 16 Players Knockout Phase & Finals Day 2 Side-Events: Speedgammon, Doubles-Consultation Big thanks to Michel Lamote (BE) who provided us such a pleasant style of commentary. Graphics & Video : Rain (NL) Much appreciations to all my supporters for keeping me motivated to develop my graphics skills and improve the quality of my art. Wanna support me? You can donate here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RainBG In exchange I will share some of my XG-Boards graphics with you. Watch my latest XG-Boards video's here: Title: eXtreme Gammon - XG Boards - High Resolution Graphics https://youtu.be/vlc8NU3OZ_w Title: Galaxy XG-Boards https://youtu.be/RQqKsOeDfaY XG - eXtreme Gammon ------------------------------------- XG is an amazing software/tool for analyzing Backgammon matches/positions. It is used by the world-top-players (Backgammon Giants). The program shows you the best mathematical decisions in any circumstances. Further thanks and credits to: R.I.P. Falafel Baba Ji, Michihito, Mochy, Sander, Niel’s numberz, John O'Hagan, Bill & Tara, USBGF, BackgammonGalaxy, Zdenek, Xavier (XG Developer), Terje, Mate, Ada, and many more...

Galaxy XG-Boards - The Whole Collection 2022 BackgammonGALAXY boards for use in eXtreme Gammon. High resolution vector-based graphic designs. All these designs are created by Rain. eXtreme Gammon - XG ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- XG is an amazing software/tool for analyzing Backgammon matches/positions. It is used by the world-top-players (Backgammon Giants). The program shows you the best mathematical decisions in any circumstances. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All credits and thanks to BackgammonGalaxy & FMgammon for their amazing backgammon boards and all their efforts to make backgammon more popular on the global scale. As you may have noticed in many of the BackgammonGalaxy livestreams they're using my graphics in the XG-feed. Voluntarily I back-up the Galaxy Team as an 'unofficial' freelance Jester in the mix. --- Also watch my other video: https://rumble.com/vnbp59-extreme-gammon-xg-boards-high-resolution-graphics.html with lots of my other XG-Boards designs based on the great backgammon boards of: Gammoner, Geoffrey Parker, P-40, Taki, Brasil, Hector Saxe, Tournament Boards, Wycliffe, FTH, ...and more... I do make custom designs as well, see info below. --- Want these boards in your own XG ? I can share these high resolution files with you in exchange for your donation to support my graphic artwork. Each board comes with 2 colors of Checkers including Dice & Cube. Different combinations are possible as you may prefer. Here's my donation-link: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RainBG Depending on your supporting donation I will share these amount of boards with you; indication threshold: 1 Board : € 4,99 2 Boards : € 9,39 3 Boards : € 12,99 6 Boards : € 19,99 9 Boards : € 27,99 + receive 1 Bonus Board 16 Boards : € 39,99 + receive 2 Bonus Boards Generous donations, to support my graphic art-designs and video's, are highly appreciated; those will receive free future upgrades/reduction on new releases. PayPal Fees: In your PayPal account please consider using the option ''sending to a friend'' in order to avoid fees, so that your full donation amount is used for supporting me as a graphic artist. PayPal-Message: With PayPal you can add a message; Please mention your preference of which board(s) you'd like to receive, either you can ask me for my 64 XG-Boards/Galaxy XG-Boards overviews or request for custom graphics. With your donation thru PayPal I will automatically receive your email-address; that's where to I will send you the files(+ install-instructions) as soon as I can. XG on Mac? For Mac users who run XG via Crossover; I do have additional install instructions for that too! XG in Dark-Mode --------------- Over the years I got several requests for XG in Dark mode. For some of my video's I used a method in OBS-software with inverted contrast. I was communicating about this with my friend Justin Clester(USA) and he created 3 amazing Dark-Mode Layouts for eXtreme Gammon. If you're interested to receive these layouts add €1,99 to your donation and I will make sure he'll receive a fair share. CUSTOM BOARD ? ------------------------------ Are you interested in a custom board (optional with your own logo)? start with sending me a donation (minimum €4,99); thru email I will get in contact with you, and we'll discuss about your design-idea. Send me 1 or more photo's (or internet-image) with multiple angles of your board, always good to add a Top-View photo. For the most accurate results: preferably a hi-res picture(s) taken in daylight settings + checkers and cube visible. About a logo: Creating logo's from scratch is an art in itself which is not my focus. However, if you already have a logo or a sketch-idea, I can help you optimize/vectorize your logo. For example: The logo's on the Tournament-Boards in my other video I re-created them as vector graphics. Info on rates for Custom XG-Board graphics: There's not really a fixed price, my rates for designing a custom XG-Board are based on donations and depends on the amount/difficulty of my graphic work and your support/appreciation. Most customers voluntarily donate ranging from €12,99 up to €29,99 or even more for a custom design. Usually I'm providing 'bonus'-boards & checkers for people who donate generously. --- Music in this video ------------------------- * intro & outro : Jingle Punks - Warrior Strife * Broken Drum Machine - Godmode * Future Glider - Brian Bolger * Hey Sailor - Letter Box * Koto San - Ofshane * Antiparticals - Mindcrawler (shared with permission from my friend, find him on SoundCloud) * Personal recording from a garage band - title unknown * Icelandic Arpeggios - DivKid * Other background Music - shared by another content creator - title unknown

Ghent Open Backgammon XV - Final + XG Paul van Dijke vs Michel Lamote 20 November, 2022 This tournament, organized by Bert Van Kerckhove, is promoted by the Belgium Backgammon Federation. Want to support my graphic art? My donation-link: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RainBG In exchange I will accordingly share some XG-Boards with you. Watch my latest XG-Boards video's here: Title: eXtreme Gammon - XG Boards - High Resolution Graphics https://rumble.com/vnbp59-extreme-gammon-xg-boards-high-resolution-graphics.html Title: Galaxy XG-Boards https://rumble.com/v1yxcdw-galaxy-xg-boards.html XG - eXtreme Gammon ------------------------------------- XG is an amazing software/tool for analyzing Backgammon matches/positions. It is used by the world-top-players (Backgammon Giants). The program shows you the best mathematical decisions in any circumstances.

Backgammon Boards for use in eXtreme Gammon. High quality vector-based graphic designs. All these designs are created by Rain; RB-graphics. eXtreme Gammon - XG ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- XG is an amazing software/tool for analyzing Backgammon matches/positions. It is used by the world-top-players (Backgammon Giants). The program shows you the best mathematical decisions in any circumstances. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Designs inspiration from boards I played on with friends or in tournaments and backgammon sets I saw online on video's and photo's. My XG-boards designs are based on inspirations of the amazing backgammon boards from: Geoffrey Parker, Hector Saxe, Gammoner, P-40, Taki, FM gammon, BackgammonGalaxy, FTH, Brasil, Wycliffe, Erhan, ...and more... The Tournament-boards: WSOB, Gibraltar Championship, Merit Park & Chigago Open; I have re-created those boards+logo's as vector-graphics as an illustration in this video and to promote their tournaments and great live-streams (credits to the orignal designers/creators). I have 64 ready-made XG-Boards available. --- Want these boards in your own XG ? I can share these high resolution files with you in exchange for your donation to support my graphic artwork. Each board comes with 2 colors of Checkers including Dice & Cube. Different combinations are possible as you may prefer. My donation-link: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RainBG Depending on your supporting donation I will share these amount of boards with you; indication threshold: 1 Board : € 4,99 2 Boards : € 9,39 3 Boards : € 12,99 6 Boards : € 19,99 9 Boards : € 27,99 + receive 1 Bonus Board ...for a custom board or my 64 XG-Boards-Overview make a starting donation (minimum €4,99) and we contact thru email. Generous donations, to support my graphic art-designs and video's, are highly appreciated; those will receive free future upgrades/reduction on new releases. PayPal Fees: In your PayPal account please consider using the option ''sending to a friend'' in order to avoid fees, so that your full donation amount is used for supporting me as a graphic artist. PayPal-Message: With PayPal you can add a message; Please mention your preference of which board(s) you'd like to receive, either you can ask me for my 64 XG-Boards overview-list or custom graphics. With your donation thru PayPal I will automatically receive your email-address; that's where to I will send you the files(+ install-instructions) as soon as I can. XG on Mac? For Mac users who run XG via Crossover; I do have additional install instructions for that too! --- CUSTOM BOARD ? ------------------------------ Are you interested in a custom board (optional with your own logo)? start with sending me a donation; thru email I will get in contact with you, and we'll discuss about your design-idea. Send me 1 or more photo's (or internet-image) with multiple angles of your board, always good to add a Top-View photo. For the most accurate results: preferably a hi-res picture(s) taken in daylight settings + checkers and cube visible. About a logo: Creating logo's from scratch is an art in itself which is not my focus. However, if you already have a logo or a sketch-idea, I can help you optimize/vectorize your logo. For example: The logo's on the Tournament-Boards in this video I re-created them as vector graphics. Info on rates for Custom XG-Board graphics: There's not really a fixed price, my rates for designing a custom XG-Board are based on donations and depends on the amount/difficulty of my graphic work and your support/appreciation. Most customers donate ranging from €12,99 up to €29,99 or even more for a custom design. Usually I'm providing 'bonus'-boards & checkers for people who donate generously. --- Music in this video ------------------------- * intro & outro : Jingle Punks - Warrior Strife (YT Free Music) * Surf Music : High Aces - Jaguars of the Andes High Aces was my surf-band from the Netherlands around 1997-2000. I play electric bass on all tracks. Link to the 'High Aces ~ Live Waves' YT-Channel (which contains 8 of our tracks): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN6R... *Electronic Music : This nice track was shared to me by a friend which is a content creator who unfortunately doesn't know the name of the artist and track name. --- Thank you for watching my video and your interest in my graphic art. --- --- --- backgammon,backgammon galaxy,backgammongalaxycom,galaxy 2020,marc olsen,mochy,online backgammon,ubc,ubc format,geoffrey parker,geoffrey parker backgammon,gammoner,gibraltar,gibraltar backgammon,gibraltar backgammon championship,extreme gammon,extremegammon,xg,xg analysis,rain,rbdesigns,rbgraphics,michy,justin nowell,rain backgammon,rain xg boards,RB XG Boards,rain backgammon boards,xg skins,rain xg skins,rain xg,rb xg,rain bg