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Ultimate Backgammon Championship

The most prestigious skill based GM tournament

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Promotional poster for a bakgammon match between Zizek and Myhr at the 2025 UBC final, featuring headshots of both players, a chessboard, flags of Czech Republic and Denmark, and text indicating "Final Day."
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Scoreboard showing the results of the 2025 Uber Backgammon Galaxy tournament. Zizka is the winner with a total score of 14, against Myhr's 10. The scoreboard includes match scores and PRs across three days with a summary of total scores and favorite player avatars.

Current
Champion

A sports player card for Zdenek Zizka from the Czech Republic, titled 'UBC 2025'. The card features a photo of a young man with short dark hair, wearing a light hoodie. The card displays stats such as average score 2.72, median 2.53, best score 0.90, and worst score 5.55. He is labeled as a Grandmaster, with 12 matches played, 7 wins, and 7 personal record wins. The card has a gold and black color scheme and a logo for 'Backgammon Galaxy' at the bottom.

Zdenek “ZZ” Zizka successfully defended his UBC title in a very close race against Thomas Myhr from Denmark. We saw some incredibly entertaining backgammon once again this year.

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Do you have what it takes to beat Zizka?

UBC backgammon player rankings list showing names, countries, avg PR, titles, and events from 1 to 78.

UBC Titles are awarded after each UBC Tournament. The rankings are based on the best tournament PR performance for each player.

All performances from UBC Final and Contender Tournament are valid to go to the rankings. Official UBC regional event performances are valid to go to the ranking list, as long as a minimum of twelve 7-point matches has been played.

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Finals

Click on a year for detailed overview.

Scoreboard image from 2019 showing Mochy vs Sander with a score of 13 to 7.
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Scoreboard showing "2023 Sander vs Mochy: 9 - 13" on a blue background.
Scoreboard showing "2021 Mochy vs Dirk" with scores 14 to 4.
Scoreboard showing a match between Zizka and Mochy, with a score of 13 to 11 in favor of Zizka, set in 2024, on a blue background.
A scoreboard image from 2022, showing a match between Sander and Mochy. The score is Sander 14, Mochy 10, displayed on a blue background.
A digital graphic with a blue background displaying the year 2025, a sports match between Zizka and Myhr with Zizka winning 14 to 10.
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Contender

Click on a year for detailed overview.

Scoreboard showing 2020 match results between Hideaki and Michy with a score of 3 to 1.
2021 match result, Dirk vs Kazuki, score 6-2, on a blue background.
A blue background with white and yellow text displaying "2024" at the top. Below, it reads "Zdenek VS Rebelo" with "Zdenek" and the number "7" in yellow. The score "7 - 4" is displayed, indicating Zdenek won over Rebelo.
Scoreboard graphic showing a match result: Mochy 7, Zdenek 1, year 2023, with a blue background.
Scoreboard showing '2022' with text 'Sander VS Zdenek' and score '6 - 2' in contrasting colors against a blue background.
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UBC On YouTube

All UBC events are streamed on our YouTube channel!

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In 1973 Paul Magriel envisioned a backgammon tournament based on skill.
Half a century later in 2019, his vision became reality...

A timeline for the UBC from 2018 to 2024, detailing locations and winners of annual events, including finalists and viewer counts for each match. Events occur in various cities such as Monte Carlo, Istanbul, and Tokyo, with notable players mentioned like Masayuki Mochizuki and Zdenek Zizka.
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Rules

Infographic showing a tournament structure and point system. Left: 'Chronology' with steps - Contender, Final, Champion. Middle: 'Point System' with 1 point for match win, 1 point for PR win. Right: 'Achievable Titles' based on PR ratings, from Super Galactic GM (<2.0) to Intermediate (<12.0).
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