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Players get set to watch the final on the TV screens in Dragons Bar
at the Atlantis Resort in The Bahamas.
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The board is set up waiting for the finalists to start. |
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Players discuss positions they came across during the competition
as they wait for the final match to begin.
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Steen Grönbech, Danish Backgammon Federation President, Backgammon Giant #28, Masayuki Mochizuki of Japan, and Philip Vischjager of Holland, the 2006 World Champion of Backgammon. Steen gets ready to insert positions from the final into a backgammon program for post-analysis. |
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Finalist Andreas Märtens on the Dragons Patio sundeck is set to go
and waits for TV crew to get ready while...
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...opponent
Lasse Hjorth Madsen
enjoys the scenery from the Dragons Patio as he mentally prepares for a match that will pay out the biggest money prize in the history of Backgammonn - a total of $744,496 was at stake - $600,400 went to the Winner while the Runner-Up pocketed $144,096 (though they did hedge some with an extra $100K or so going to second place). |
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Not your everyday chouette - backgammon greats (L to R) Frank Talbot, Ray Fogerlund, Jake Jacobs and Carter Mattig - and yes the cubes did fly.
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Stephen Pearson (centre right), Managing Director of Player International, the organizer of this tournament, celebrates this pinnacle moment in backgammon with several friends just inside the Dragons Patio. |
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Julian Wilson and Kent Goulding provide commentary, watched by Sam Pottle. |
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Julian Fetterlein and Jürgen Orlowski under the watch of the Dragons. |
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TV's John Clark chats with Robert Wachtel. |
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German players react to a great roll by Andreas Märtens. |
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Märtens way ahead in the score but Madsen fought back to 22-22 to 23. |
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Scene from the filming of the final. |
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Player International's Stephen Pearson, Eddy Swaab, Backgammon
Giant #3 Francois Tardieu and Hans Helweg.
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The crowd on one side of the bar watching a second screen behind the photographer - more spectators on this side watched the one over there. |
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