The 20th Ohio State Backgammon Championships were held over this past weekend in Cleveland, and the Columbus Backgammon Club was very well represented in both attendance and results. A total of 7 members were there to compete, with 1 in the Open, and the remaining 6 in the Advanced tournament. With those kind of numbers, it’s natural to think that we should get at least 1 result – but in fact we got 3!
On Friday night, David Rearick won the Amateur Jackpot tournament to grab the clubs first honors of the weekend. On Sunday, the Advanced main event featured an all-Columbus semi-final with Bob Hickey and Jason Marshall squaring off (which happened to be their second meeting of the tournament). Jason won that match to advance to the final where he lost to Champion Ghazi Al-Kanani, taking second place overall. Bob moved to the Consolation bracket and finished as the winner there for third place.
We have a few photos of the weekend, and I will be working on getting an album online of those soon!