Match Report for Dirk Schiemann (Backgammon Deutschland)
Member of WBGF
Born in Dinslaken, Germany in 1970 Dirk Schiemann started to play backgammon tournaments at the age of 19.
While studying mathematics at the University of Dortmund he began traveling to international tournaments and became a professional backgammon player in the mid-nineties.
He won his first international tournament in Rio de Janeiro in 1996
Between 1999 and 2005 Dirk was among the top ten Giants of Backgammon being nr. 3 Giant in 2003.
In 2004 he quit backgammon, moved to Costa Rica and became a professional poker player.
After quitting as a professional games player in 2012 and moving back to Germany, he started studying backgammon and traveling to tournaments again in 2017. In 2018 he became World Team Champion with Germany and won the Bahamas Invitational. In 2019 he won the Porta Nigra Invitational in Trier and in 2020 the UBC Contender tournament.
In 2021 he published the groundbreaking work “The Theory of Backgammon”. He was voted nr. 6 Giant in 2023.
Dirk gives private backgammon lessons and can also be found playing online on Backgammon Galaxy and on Backgammon Studio Heroes where he won the invitational tournament “Best of the Best” three times in a row from 2021 to 2023.
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▼ Tournaments
Final date | Club | Name | Event | Rank | WR points |
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2023-08-27 | WBF | 4th Skopje Open Backgammon Championship | Championship - Main | 29 | 26.4000 |
2023-08-27 | WBF | 4th Skopje Open Backgammon Championship | Championship - Last Chance | 65 | 1.5995 |
2023-08-23 | WBF | WBGF Team Championship Skopje 2023 | Championship - Main | 96 | 20.0443 |
2023-07-30 | Backgammon Galaxy | Backgammon World Championship 2023 | Championship - Main | 81 | 19.3119 |
2023-07-30 | Backgammon Galaxy | Backgammon World Championship 2023 | Championship - Last Chance | 65 | 2.3719 |
2023-07-30 | Backgammon Galaxy | Backgammon World Championship 2023 | Super Jackpot 2 | 17 | 10.9438 |
2023-05-29 | Backgammon Deutschland | 15. International German Championship | Championship - Main | 5 | 97.6480 |
2023-04-02 | WBF | 2023 Merit Open Montenegro Grand Prix | Championship - Main | 17 | 37.7335 |
2023-04-02 | WBF | 2023 Merit Open Montenegro Grand Prix | Championship - Last Chance | 17 | 4.0877 |
2023-04-02 | WBF | 2023 Merit Open Montenegro Grand Prix | Super Jackpot 2 | 3 | 17.6352 |
2023-03-12 | WBF | 1st Loutraki Grand Prix | Championship - Main | 6 | 70.4335 |
2023-03-12 | WBF | 1st Loutraki Grand Prix | Super Jackpot - Main | 25 | 5.7614 |
2022-08-28 | Backgammon Deutschland | 10. Lions-Cup | Championship - Main | 33 | 9.1701 |
2022-08-28 | Backgammon Deutschland | 10. Lions-Cup | Championship - Consolation | 17 | 4.5009 |
2022-08-28 | Backgammon Deutschland | 10. Lions-Cup | Championship - Last Chance | 5 | 6.2767 |
2022-08-28 | Backgammon Deutschland | 10. Lions-Cup | Super Jackpot - Main | 2 | 23.0822 |
2022-06-19 | FFBG | 1 st Beaulieu International Challenge | Championship - Main | 17 | 18.1655 |
2022-06-19 | FFBG | 1 st Beaulieu International Challenge | Championship - Last Chance | 17 | 1.9642 |
2022-06-19 | FFBG | 1 st Beaulieu International Challenge | Super Jackpot - Main | 5 | 11.1335 |
2022-06-06 | Backgammon Deutschland | 14. International German Championship | Championship - Main | 9 | 36.1358 |
2022-04-10 | CNB Italy | WBGF Individual Championship 2022 Venice | Championship - Main | 17 | 24.5938 |
2022-04-06 | CNB Italy | WBGF Team Championship 2022 Venice | Championship - Main | 94 | 2.9921 |
2021-11-09 | WBF | TRNC Merit Open 2021 | Championship - Main | 113 | 5.2998 |
2021-11-09 | WBF | TRNC Merit Open 2021 | Championship - Last Chance | 65 | 0.8539 |
2021-09-05 | WBGF | WBGF Individual Championship 2021 Trier | Championship - Main | 17 | 15.0902 |
2021-09-01 | WBGF | WBGF Team Championship 2021 Trier | Championship - Main | 47 | 2.7471 |
2021-08-28 | Backgammon Deutschland | 9. Lions-Cup | Championship - Main | 33 | 3.8136 |
2021-08-28 | Backgammon Deutschland | 9. Lions-Cup | Championship - Consolation | 33 | 1.1454 |
2021-08-28 | Backgammon Deutschland | 9. Lions-Cup | Championship - Last Chance | 17 | 0.9796 |
2020-02-09 | Backgammon Gibraltar | Gibraltar Championships 2020 | Championship - Main | 9 | 0.0000 |
2020-02-07 | Backgammon Galaxy | UBC (Ultimate Backgammon Challenge) | Championship - Main | 6 | 0.0000 |
2020-01-12 | WBGF | 2020 WBGF Individual World Championships | Championship - Main | 21 | 0.0000 |
2020-01-12 | WBGF | WBGF Team Championship 2020 | Championship - Main | 19 | 0.0000 |
2020-01-12 | WBGF | 2020 WBGF Individual World Championships | Championship - Last Chance | 5 | 0.0000 |
2019-06-10 | Backgammon Deutschland | German Open Championships | Championship - Main | 17 | 0.0000 |
2019-06-10 | Backgammon Deutschland | German Open Championships | Championship - Last Chance | 17 | 0.0000 |
2019-03-04 | Tobias Hellwag | Porta Nigra Invitational | Championship - Main | 1 | 0.0000 |
2018-07-15 | WBGF | WBGF Team Championship 2018 | Championship - Main | 1 | 0.0000 |
2018-07-15 | WBGF | World championships (WBgF individual) | Championship - Main | 48 | 0.0000 |
2018-05-21 | Witt/Sonnabend | German Backgammon Championship | Championship - Main | 33 | 0.0000 |
2018-05-21 | Witt/Sonnabend | German Backgammon Championship | Championship - Last Chance | 65 | 0.0000 |
2018-05-21 | Witt/Sonnabend | German Backgammon Championship | Super Jackpot 2 | 9 | 0.0000 |