Final minutes of 2007 Backgammon World Championship

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Video Description: Probably the most amazing piece of backgammon video ever seen - here are the final minutes of the final match of the 2007 World Backgammon Championship in Monte Carlo, played between Alvaro Savio of Brazil and Jorge Pan of Argentina.
Why so special?
Firstly, keep in mind that the two players and a referee are in a sealed room playing the final. GammonLife's Marjorie Serrano Blanco filmed what you will see off the big screen in another room where one or two hundred other players are watching as Backgammon Giant #4, Matvey "Falafel" Natanzon, does the commentary.
We take you right to Move 8 of the final game, when, after rolling a 6-3, Savio attempts a move and uses a checker to push aside the die with the 6 on it, off a point where he wants to place the checker he is moving... the die tumbles over landing on a 5 and neither player nor the referee seem to notice... but the spectators do! (You will hear Jürgen Orlowski sitting next to us saying "Six, six, six...".)
You will observe that this was accidental because Savio continues trying to play a 6. However, perhaps confused, and caught up in all the excitement of such a paramount moment, Savio eventually tries to move a 5. Savio told GammonLife after the match that at this point, referee Luigi Villa, told him to put the checkers back to the original position and that he must play the numbers currently showing on the dice, a 5 and 3, and not a 6 and 3!
The crowd reacts! Pan does not object and there's no turning back. Stuck behind a 5-point prime, and then a 6-point prime seconds later, how does Pan go on to become the 2007 World Champion? Watch and see...

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gross ( 1 year ago by jtambourine)

gross

Justice was served! ( 1 year ago by Gabesaurus)

Justice was served!

this shit shouldn't ... ( 1 year ago by pokernuts)

this shit shouldn't happen at the World Champs.

the first 6-3 move ... ( 1 year ago by fchpt755)

the first 6-3 move is foul,isn'n it?

Clearly it is a ... ( 11 months ago by davidklausa)

Clearly it is a foul, but it is the opponent's responsibility to call the director to overturn it. As you see in "about this video," he didn't catch it either. Judging by the low quality of this video, i take it the 07 Championships weren't televised?

amateurs... ( 10 months ago by den84ca)

amateurs...

It is impossible to ... ( 8 months ago by yeldarb11)

It is impossible to win money playing on line. All the sites themselves tag the good players. Once you are tagged they fix your dice so that you lose. I am one of the top players in the world.

Then u are hardly a ... ( 8 months ago by ngupowered)

Then u are hardly a top player. I win an average of 0.2 point per game over 4500 games online. In matches I win more like 0.3 ppg, just because matches are harder to play.
To beat a rake of approx. 5 % u need to win about 53 % single wins.

man i thought this ... ( 1 month ago by CD123ert)

man i thought this was gonna be more exciting...learn how to play chess or something

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