16 June 2006
Schwaben-Cup Results
The 138th Schwaben-Cup (Swabia Cup) was played on Sunday, 11 June, in Waldheim, Stuttgart-Sillenbuch, Germany. The cup is a monthly tournament that counts towards a yearly ranking, with points awarded to the participants. This edition drew 17 players.
Results
- Main: 1. Eckart Plaul, 2. Cemal Demiriz
- Consolation: 1. Oliver Mall, 2. Peter Raugust
- Amateur: won by Jason
Yearly ranking
After six tournaments of the year, Peter Raugust led the ranking with 160 points from only five tournaments and a match balance of 13:6. Cemal Demiriz followed some way behind with 146 points and a balance of 12:12.
The previous year had belonged to Berger Axel, who topped the table with 317 points and a match balance of 31:19. In 2006 he stood in 10th place with 79 points after four tournaments (7:6), leaving open the question of whether he could still catch the leaders.
The DBGL rating list
The DBGL Germany rating list had been running since January 2005 and by then covered 115 tournaments and more than 500 players. It included the multi-day tournaments in Brakel and the regional events of cooperating organisers in Berlin, Brakel, Essen, Freiburg, Hamburg, Cologne, Mannheim, Munich, Nuremberg, Stuttgart and Witten.
The list was led by Dirk Werner from Dortmund with an ELO of 1774.2, ahead of Rainer Saszik from Witten with 1746.6.
More tournament reports are collected in the backgammon news archive.