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number of tournament bg players worldwide (live)
Posted By: Christian Plenz In Response To: number of tournament bg players worldwide (live) (Leonardo Jerkovic)
Date: Tuesday, 10 July 2012, at 9:17 a.m.
The German ELO List contains
1137 players (1048 German +89 foreign players)
Total population about 83m. So without regard of the board owners its about 1 in 73,000. To start about I would consider this as the minimum.
The Berlin ELO List contains 124 players and its 1 in 31000. Both lists are incomplete. There might be some tournaments below the radar, i.e. players that only play in the 'Amateur event' in Berlin are not included. Berlin has lot of Turkish community clubs as well and they play Backgammon. I have played in a Greek and Turkish club. The late-night-shop/Kurdish grocer next to me also has backgammon action sometimes (Steglitz-Zehlendorf district is not famous for having big foreign communities). Players like Riskin, Kuehl, Humke do not appear in the list either they have never played or back to the 90s when there have not been such a list. Dont know how much the 1 in 31000 should be adjusted, maybe 1 in 15000 or 20000. For Germany as a whole I would make it somewhere between Berlin and the above adjusted
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