1. Doubling Cube.

                        2. NO Crawford Rule.

                        3. Gammon and Backgammon.

                        4. Match till specific number of games.

                        5. Balanced scoring system for a game and a match.

                        6. Tournament sessions: Swiss, Round-Robin, Knockout

            7. Prize fund sharing: money prize is directly depends on the player’s result achieved at the tournament.

The whole tournament consists of three sessions.

NO Registration Fee!

Entry Fee – 10000 Grivna (1000€).

Entry fee should be shared in three parts:

30% - 3000 Grivna (300€) - for playing in session1;

30% - 3000 Grivna (300€) - for increasing the prize fund in a match by playing in session 2;

40% - 4000 Grivna (400€) - for prize fund formation of final session 3.

Session 1: FPP-Tournament™

This tournament session is promoting like standard FPP-Tournament™ to range the players and find the best of 8.

Backgammon Fixed Play Parameters Tournament is promoted with fixed time and playing intervals, with known quantity of matches and games in each of matches and scoring system like in money-games.

Starting Set of Game Points (chips)                                                - 100.

Rebuys in the first session                                                                - no limited.

Pairing in the first match                                                             - casual.

Pairing after the first match                                                         - Swiss.

Time for one match                                                                   - 60 minutes.

Quantity of games in a match                                                     - 10.

Quantity of matches                                                                   - 5.

Scoring system                                                                          - like money-game.

By results of the first session there are still staying in the tournament best of 8 players, who are coming in second session.

Session 2: FPP-BSS-Tournament™

FPP-BSS-Tournament™ is promoted with fixed time and playing intervals, with known quantity of matches and games in each of matches and with using balanced scoring system proposed by Dr. Jakob Garal in his book "Fair Backgammon Tournament Rules” with one extra addition: match result (received in Victory Points) should be recalculated in money.

The players are seeded according to the sum of Game Points won in the first session.

A round-robin tournament is played in each group: all participants play against each other three matches.

Time for one match                      - 60 minutes.

Quantity of games in a match        -10

Quantity of matches                     - 3

Number of groups of 4 players    - 2

Scoring system                            - balanced scoring system for a game and a match

After that the best two players from each group are coming in the final third session.

Session 3: FPP-BSS-Tournament™.

Backgammon FPP-BSS-Tournament™ is promoted for final session.

The two best players from each final group are coming in semi-final. The semi-finals are played: first place player from group 1 with the second place player from group 2 and vice versa. After that the matches for the third place and final are played.