Lars Trabolt - 2008 World Backgammon Champion

by Achim Mueller
13 July 2008

2008 Champ: Lars Trabolt

Current Ladder: Championship Flight

GammonVillage correspondent Achim Mueller files this report on today's controversial Championiship match between Mario Sequeira and Lars Trabolt. Additional reports and photos from Saturday's Semi-Final round.

MONTE CARLO, Monaco - On Sunday, Lars Trabolt (DNK), also known as Trabbi, triumphed 25-12 over Mario Sequeira (PRT), becoming the 2008 World Backgammon Champion. Currently ranked #16 on the list of Backgammon Giants, Trabbi is sure to see that ranking improve now.

However, the match was marred by a string of illegal moves.

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Subject: Re: Lars Trabolt - 2008 World Backgammon Champion

From: TheRake

Date: 14 Jul 2008 03:57 EST

Congratulations to Lars Trabolt and also to Achim for reaching the semi-final and providing these excellent reports.

I would be interested to learn whether the illegal moves by Mr Sequeira were just random or tended to be to his advantage or indeed disadvantage.

Ray Kershaw

Subject: Re: Lars Trabolt - 2008 World Backgammon Champion

From: acepoint

Date: 14 Jul 2008 17:37 EST

They were mostly on his advantage, but I can't say he made them on purpose. The biggest problem for me was that he fiddled around with the checkers a lot, at least 5 times asked for the correct position. The same happened to Lars a few times.

I'll write a closing report with more deails later.

Ciao

Achim

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