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Turku Open 2024: Radisson Blu Marina Palace
Lauantai 16.11.2024
Ilmoittautuneet pelaajat:
Pääsarja
- Timo Taipale
- Jyrki Kauppinen
- Panu Kinnari
- Oleksii Naskalov
- Miika Huhtamäki
- Matti Tienari
- Janne Kaipainen
- Kari Grönberg
- Jukka Raussi
- Neil Smith
- Henri Nerg
- Tapio Palmroth
- Oskari Päiviö
- John Rizaew
Vähän pelanneiden sarja
- Anu Kinnari
- Kateryna Mykhailova
- Marjo Katajamäki
- Marjut Heikkilä
- Jari Laine
- Pia Hovi
- Sofia Hopiavuori
- Pan Nuutinen
- Teemu Kantola
- Markus Luoma
- Timo Rantamäki
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Koululaisten SM-kisat: Hakunilan nuorisotila, Vantaa
perjantai 29.11.2024
Kisakutsu työn alla. Maksuton turnaus, jossa kolme sarjaa: alakoulu, yläkoulu ja toinen aste.
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SM-kisat 2024 (pelataan alkuvuonna 2025): Ravintola Telakka, Tampere
Lauantai-sunnuntai 25.-26.1.2025
Ilmoittautuneet pelaajat:
Pääsarja
- Joona Tuominen
- Tapio Palmroth
- Jyrki Kauppinen
- Antti Virtanen
Vähän pelanneiden sarja
- Pan Nuutinen
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Joukkueiden MM-kisat pelattiin Tukholmassa 8.-10.7.2024. Joukkueita oli mukana 23, Suomi sijoittui upeasti 7. sijalle. Suomi voitti oman alkulohkonsa, jossa oli mukana kovia maita: Japani, UK, Belgia, Ukraina ja Kypros.
Puolivälierissä Suomi hävisi Itävallalle, joka voitti lopulta mestaruuden. Hopealle Italia ja pronssille Saksa.
Suomen joukkue: Timo Väätäinen (C), Simo Suhonen, Matti Tienari, Petri Pietilä, Sampo Niskanen ja Janne Kaipainen.
Naisten kisassa mukana oli 8 maata, mitalit USA, UK ja Georgia.
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Suomen Backgammon ry:n hallitus on 24.4.2022 päättänyt evätä venäläisten ja valko-venäläisten pelaajien pääsyn kaikkiin yhdistyksen tapahtumiin ja turnauksiin toistaiseksi. Syy on Venäjän aloittama sota Ukrainaa vastaan.
24.4.2022 The board of Finnish Backgammon Association (FBA) has decided to ban Russian and Belarussian players from participation in all FBA events for the foreseeable future in response of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Chairman Simo Huovinen sent this letter to the Russian backgammon federation:
I’m sorry to inform you that Finnish Backgammon Association (FBA) has decided to ban Russian (and Belarussian) backgammon players from participation in all events and tournaments of FBA for the foreseeable future in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The decision was by no means ethically simple, and I myself used to think that the ban shouldn’t be extended to individuals, who are not directly representing their nation, like backgammon players. However my view has gradually changed as Russian war crimes in Ukraine are unfolding. The war is a national thing. It is a difficult question whether the citizens are responsible for the atrocities of their state, but in my opinion they are not entirely free of responsibility.
The aim of the ban is to make a statement to Russians that things are not as they are told by their government. Life can’t go on as it used to do. Ukrainian civilians are being forcefully transported, jailed, tortured, raped and murdered by Russian soldiers.
The wide array of international sanctions towards Russia will affect the innocent too, but the sanctions are still necessary for stopping the war. I view the ban in the same way. Furthermore the ban is mainly a symbolic one, as all public transports between Russia and Finland are halted due to sanctions anyway.
I apologize to everyone who is opposing the war and Putin and are suffering from the oppression in Russia…
I sincerely hope that good relations between Russia and Finland and its citizens will be restored in the future and we can enjoy the game together again.”
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