Karsten Bredahl, the Dane backgammon player who represented Play65 at the recent 2008 Nordic Open, has published his memories from the prestigious event on the renewed internet backgammon magazine, GammOnLine. Some highlights from Karsten’s Nordic Open diary:

On the Championship Flight Draw:

"…Personally I should go for "no. 3", but expectations were small as the field contained a record number of 154 players in the Champ Flight and 33,500 Euros for the winner.The draw was made and I received the worst possible draw…. I was in the same quadrant as Gus Hansen, Goetz Hildsberg, Falafel, Mochy, Thomas Hansen, Marinos Hindkjaer and Lars Nielsen."

On the Consolation Flight:

"…I should have played "the consolation-champ" Rida Hassan (Egypt)…I began with absolutely natural dice and got ahead 6-0. Now I began to feel my own medicine and all of a sudden I was trailing 6-9… In the second attempt I managed to roll a 6-2 and after that I forced Mr. Hassan down to an acepoint game with borderline bad timing. He never hit any of the 2 shots I left him and I was in the final where some unknown guy from Japan was waiting for me."

As you recall, the "unknown guy from Japan" was no other than Masayuki Mochizuki aka Mochy (no. 6 on the 2007 Giants of Backgammon list), who was later crowned Consolation Champion and Karsten the Consolation Finalist.

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