Backgammon at Middle East, North Africa, Greater Arabia

Middle East, North Africa, Greater Arabia Ratings Table

Note: the ratings of players with low 'Experience' figures (especially less than 400) should be regarded as provisional. How ratings are calculated.

Rank	Name	Chart	Country	BMAB no.	BMAB title	Last 300 PR	BMAB exp.	Rating	Experience
1	Dorel Leon	Add	Romania	00561	Master M1	4.8049	296	1,691.05	342
2	Art Benjamin	Add	United States	00403	Master M1	4.4785	440	1,690.78	617
3	Patrick Gebeili	Add	France	00744	Advanced A1	7.4364	269	1,672.03	269
4	Yasin Okal	Add	Turkey	00471	Master M1	3.9264	130	1,670.65	130
5	Burak Çulhacı	Add	Turkey	00731	Grandmaster G3	3.8368	662	1,650.08	692
6	Tim Cross	Add	United Kingdom	00134	Grandmaster G2	3.7586	5294	1,645.92	5294
7	Michihito Kageyama	Add	Japan	00108	Grandmaster G0	2.7823	1336	1,641.58	1509
8	Ali Nazeri	Add	Iran	00304	Advanced A2	7.5869	132	1,640.79	132
9	Saleh Farjallah	Add	Lebanon	00701	Advanced A2	8.3080	138	1,640.23	138
10	Cuneyt Argun Genc	Add	Turkey	00472	Grandmaster G3	3.7972	221	1,635.08	232
11	Shahab M Gargash	Add	United Arab Emirates	00989		14.1786	56	1,633.73	56
12	Victor Ashkenazi	Add	United States	00201	Grandmaster G0	3.1522	1755	1,623.50	1795
13	Johan Norberg	Add	Sweden	00674	Master M2	5.3397	470	1,615.59	488
14	Kamran Sharifi	Add	Iran	00412		5.5741	66	1,614.02	66
15	Joe Bernaba	Add	Lebanon	00700	Grandmaster G3	3.9195	169	1,613.84	169
16	Benjamin Lund	Add	Denmark	00400	Grandmaster G3	3.8285	2830	1,610.55	2944
17	Saeed Mousavi	Add	Iran	00187	Advanced A1	7.0616	327	1,608.20	327
18	Elias Kritikos	Add	Norway	00619	Grandmaster G2	3.6061	839	1,605.54	861
19	Salar Rasoolzadeh	Add	Iran	00192				1,601.14	160
20	Paul Karam	Add	Lebanon	00705		10.9913	44	1,598.79	44
21	Thomas Tenland	Add	Sweden	00307	Grandmaster G1	2.8425	1261	1,597.38	1329
22	Dagfinn Snarheim	Add	Norway	00618	Grandmaster G1	3.3468	968	1,595.27	1032
23	Sander Lylloff	Add	Denmark	00809	Grandmaster G2	2.7007	245	1,594.03	328
24	Sajed Abbasi	Add	Iran	00279				1,592.06	80
25	Nick Blasier	Add	United States	00369	Master M1	4.9734	1670	1,590.63	1700
26	Klaus Switon	Add	Denmark	00229	Master M3	5.8953	400	1,590.10	476
27	Rainer Birkle	Add	Germany	00903	Master M3	5.5998	147	1,587.41	178
28	Hassan Mokdad	Add	Lebanon	00745	Advanced A3	8.5788	190	1,587.05	190
29	Mostafa Zamiri	Add	Iran	00872	Master M1	4.6173	122	1,586.47	122
30	Marcus Reinhard	Add	Germany	00688	Master M1	4.5043	774	1,586.43	820
31	John O'Hagan	Add	United States	00252	Grandmaster G2	4.1724	3212	1,583.16	3242
32	Marc Olsen	Add	Denmark	00143	Grandmaster G2	3.7171	657	1,582.67	733
33	Ali Vafadar	Add	Iran	00655		5.6370	65	1,580.36	65
34	Johan Huyck	Add	Belgium	00296	Master M2	4.8963	652	1,580.04	835
35	Jürgen Orlowski	Add	Germany	00654		4.8096	42	1,579.40	165
36	Roohollah Amiri Andy	Add	Iran	00176	Grandmaster G3	3.5682	654	1,577.12	654
37	Alaattin Ozaltun	Add	Turkey	00475	Master M2	5.2146	121	1,575.97	121
38	İbrahim Karaca	Add	Turkey	00476	Master M2	5.0785	243	1,573.53	256
39	Irshad Khan	Add	Pakistan	00893		12.7650	49	1,571.69	49
40	Erhan Yenisen	Add	Turkey	00470	Master M1	3.9023	121	1,571.48	130
41	Jalil Khalili	Add	Iran	00178	Master M2	5.3730	686	1,570.54	686
42	Ronald Weenink	Add	Unknown Country					1,569.80	21
43	Milad Momeni	Add	Iran	00410	Advanced A1	7.4491	132	1,569.53	132
44	Amir Golegolab	Add	Iran	00401	Grandmaster G3	3.8838	244	1,569.23	244
45	Fernando Neumark	Add	Argentina	00613		4.4199	98	1,566.39	133
46	Smbat Pogosyan	Add	Armenia	00888		6.6079	63	1,564.10	63
47	Steve Sax	Add	United States	00169	Grandmaster G2	3.3345	4509	1,562.90	4634
48	Dincer Gunes	Add	Unknown Country					1,561.00	44
49	Amirali Tavakoli	Add	Iran	00840	Master M1	4.2841	241	1,559.63	254
50	Masayuki Mochizuki	Add	Japan	00110	Super Grandmaster S2	2.6823	3235	1,558.38	3336
51	Stefan Parlow	Add	Austria	00209	Master M2	5.7174	2392	1,557.96	2446
52	Umur Aras	Add	Turkey	00811	Master M1	3.9310	126	1,557.91	148
53	Shahin Nejat	Add	Iran	00873	Grandmaster G3	4.1567	206	1,556.78	206
54	Nariman Rezapour	Add	Iran	00932		4.2941	56	1,556.26	56
55	Jon Kristian Røyset	Add	Norway	00648		4.3755	68	1,555.44	150
56	Zdeněk Žižka	Add	Czechia	00167	Grandmaster G1	2.7641	845	1,555.44	977
57	Andy Abi Haidar	Add	Lebanon	00943		13.0702	18	1,555.30	18
58	Ali Cetin Belene	Add	Turkey	00469	Grandmaster G1	2.9118	375	1,554.51	375
59	Tore Eklund Fredriksen	Add	Norway	00632	Master M1	3.7273	114	1,553.85	127
60	Sebastian Wilkinson	Add	United Kingdom	00185	Grandmaster G2	3.4586	1449	1,553.65	1558
61	Anis Samaha	Add	Lebanon	00816		8.7255	54	1,551.58	54
62	Talat Bağıbala	Add	Turkey	00732		11.7508	70	1,551.32	70
63	Amir Eshraghi	Add	Iran	00177	Grandmaster G3	3.7524	1032	1,548.04	1041
64	Thomas Myhr	Add	Denmark	00150	Grandmaster G2	3.7224	2425	1,546.55	2545
65	Soinguli Amirov	Add	Georgia					1,546.15	27
66	Simon Barget	Add	United Kingdom	00153	Grandmaster G3	3.7505	327	1,545.02	580
67	Mahmoud Abbasi	Add	Iran	00756		5.7498	28	1,544.91	28
68	Hazhir Attari	Add	Iran	00874	Master M1	4.5783	122	1,542.06	122
69	Bariş Bülent Muzoğlu	Add	Unknown Country					1,540.63	9
70	Karen Davis	Add	United States	00345	Master M2	6.4638	2116	1,540.62	2253
71	Giti Omidi	Add	Iran	00659		16.3545	55	1,539.85	55
72	Mohammadreza Moienfar	Add						1,539.39	11
73	Heribert Lindner	Add	Germany	00590		6.4556	81	1,537.89	150
74	Houshidar Ildari	Add	Iran	00188				1,537.51	69
75	Aidin Mehtar	Add	Iran	00285	Advanced A1	7.4940	253	1,537.14	253
76	Ihsan Estepe	Add	Turkey					1,536.41	9
77	Avni Erdogruca	Add	Turkey					1,536.28	9
78	Murat Topcu	Add	Turkey					1,535.92	9
79	Roger Haidar	Add	Brazil	00988		15.2573	56	1,535.35	56
80	David Presser	Add	Israel	00121	Grandmaster G2	3.4066	228	1,534.50	235
81	Phil Perelmuter	Add	United States	00806	Advanced A2	8.7815	300	1,534.00	300
82	Kerim Lokman	Add	Unknown Country					1,532.70	9
83	Alp Yilmaz	Add	Unknown Country					1,532.36	9
84	Sebahattin Gok	Add	Unknown Country					1,532.32	9
85	Lili Esmaeili	Add	Iran	00660		13.1095	55	1,531.28	55
86	Hasret Bekar	Add	Turkey					1,531.01	9
87	Jamil Daou	Add	Lebanon	00883	Advanced A3	9.0109	112	1,530.86	112
88	Anthony Succar	Add	Lebanon	00939		7.2434	9	1,530.00	9
88	Ghassan Youssef	Add	Lebanon	00946		15.0846	9	1,530.00	9
90	Cem Cirakoglu	Add	Turkey					1,529.85	9
91	Shahrooz Zarei	Add	Iran	00180				1,529.74	33
92	Mustafa Guneralp	Add	Unknown Country					1,526.35	7
93	Arthuro Braakx	Add	Unknown Country					1,525.83	7
94	Bert Van Kerkhove	Add	Unknown Country					1,524.87	7
95	Farhad Heydari	Add	Iran	00758	Master M2	6.0508	199	1,523.48	199
96	T. Ucarer	Add						1,523.36	5
97	Gaz Owen	Add	United Kingdom	00156	Grandmaster G3	3.7942	327	1,521.59	809
98	Kamyar Karimi	Add						1,521.30	55
99	Fady Asmar	Add	Lebanon	00706		11.1325	89	1,519.54	89
100	Nihal El Beaino	Add	Lebanon	00890	Intermediate I3	15.4948	105	1,518.52	105
101	Caner Cetin	Add	Turkey	00808		3.6016	98	1,518.29	98
102	Mehdi Asdaghi	Add	Iran	00928		4.3943	77	1,516.10	77
103	Mehmet Cakici	Add	WBGF	00860		5.8490	98	1,515.06	105
104	Albert Steg	Add	United States	00504	Master M1	5.4275	861	1,514.35	1498
105	Fati̇h Belli̇ci̇	Add	Unknown Country					1,513.20	18
106	Farhang Shahidara	Add	Iran	00306	Master M1	4.8389	483	1,512.49	483
107	Cesur Kaya	Add	Unknown Country					1,512.24	18
108	Jakob Rasmussen	Add	Denmark	00715	Grandmaster G2	3.3397	803	1,512.16	803
109	Cihangir Çetinel	Add	Turkey	00846	Master M3	6.3480	303	1,509.74	325
110	Didi	Add						1,509.35	22
111	Aykut Uzel	Add	Turkey	00812		5.4177	98	1,508.86	124
112	David Klausa	Add	United States	00616	Master M1	4.8844	1085	1,507.20	1119
113	Bahareh Talaei	Add	Iran	00283				1,506.32	14
114	Farid Al Chakti	Add	Lebanon	00742		10.8636	28	1,505.75	28
115	Joseph Abboud	Add	Lebanon	00707		12.7674	53	1,505.60	53
116	Ozan Özgür	Add	Turkey	00728	Master M1	4.1539	133	1,504.72	133
117	Geir Pedersen	Add	Norway	00620	Grandmaster G3	4.0025	670	1,503.59	670
118	Joe Karkour	Add	Lebanon	00739		9.4773	91	1,503.16	91
119	Habib Khalil	Add	Lebanon	00945		12.0214	18	1,502.50	18
120	Sharif Hashem	Add	Lebanon	00738		7.8601	42	1,500.22	42
121	Joe Chiha	Add	Lebanon	00815		9.4368	54	1,499.70	54
122	Maan Hachem	Add	Lebanon	00940		6.3462	18	1,499.60	18
123	Dirk Schiemann	Add	Germany	00117	Grandmaster G1	3.0371	447	1,499.23	505
124	Joseph Helou	Add	Lebanon	00944		12.1775	18	1,497.50	18
125	Mehdi Razmjoei	Add	Iran	00835	Master M1	4.5506	185	1,496.79	185
126	Omid Alijani	Add	Iran	00927		4.7587	56	1,495.70	56
127	Omid Irannejad	Add	Iran	00662		9.2966	66	1,494.52	66
128	Ziad Amine	Add	Lebanon	00887	Intermediate I3	14.1396	105	1,493.66	105
129	Arash Afroozian	Add	Iran	00755	Grandmaster G3	3.8936	444	1,493.00	444
130	Jasper Watertor	Add	Unknown Country					1,492.32	16
131	Mohammadreza Moeinfar	Add	Iran	00190		5.0052	66	1,491.44	319
132	Hamidreza Shahrokhi	Add	Iran	00193				1,489.47	292
133	Feza Diyarbekir	Add	Turkey	00478	Master M3	6.1049	134	1,487.74	134
134	Nima Ardalan	Add	Iran	00757		4.0634	77	1,486.74	77
135	Jean Abi Haidar	Add	Lebanon	00703		7.6054	89	1,486.11	89
136	Poorya Mahooti	Add	Iran	00834	Master M3	5.5774	119	1,485.85	119
137	Hans Marius Eikseth	Add	Norway	00623	Grandmaster G3	3.9827	464	1,484.99	490
138	Rony Sadek	Add	Lebanon	00708		13.8220	89	1,483.80	89
139	Rune Færevåg	Add	Norway	00629	Master M1	4.8170	424	1,481.39	534
140	Ayhan Yaz	Add	Unknown Country					1,480.16	9
141	Can Oymak	Add	Unknown Country					1,479.70	9
142	Iman Habibi	Add	Unknown Country					1,479.66	9
143	Ridvan Sezer	Add	Unknown Country					1,478.49	9
144	Mehrdad Jeyranzadeh	Add	Iran	00838	Master M2	5.9163	185	1,478.39	185
145	Ozkin	Add						1,478.16	5
146	Mehrdad Jeiran Zadeh	Add	Unknown Country					1,476.34	11
147	Naim Onur Tezmen	Add	Turkey					1,476.05	9
148	Krasimira Zlatinovia	Add	Unknown Country					1,475.53	7
149	Harun Tekmi̇l	Add	Unknown Country					1,475.45	11
150	Masoud Farvareshi	Add	Iran	00836	Master M1	4.2503	185	1,474.54	185
151	Oğuzhan Şener	Add	Unknown Country					1,474.49	11
152	Recep Ural	Add	Turkey					1,474.09	7
153	Bakar Matikashvili	Add	Georgia	00810		4.7535	98	1,473.34	116
154	Mohammad Amin Sha	Add	Unknown Country					1,473.22	7
155	Marcel Büker	Add		00902		9.7286	35	1,472.96	74
156	Emrullah Cosar	Add	Turkey					1,472.59	39
157	Bogac Sihoglu	Add	Unknown Country					1,472.03	9
158	Reza Barmayehvar	Add	Turkey					1,471.05	9
159	Shahrouz Zarei	Add						1,470.53	11
160	Fady Choucair	Add	Lebanon	00947		8.9407	9	1,470.00	9
161	Mustafa Kemal Arslan	Add	Unknown Country					1,469.54	9
162	Erkan Nayir	Add	Turkey					1,469.54	9
163	Jeremy Sherr	Add	Unknown Country					1,469.22	9
164	Meisam Abbasi	Add	Iran	00278				1,469.06	87
165	Oktay Kurhan	Add	Turkey					1,468.90	9
166	Soroush Asadi	Add	Iran	00280				1,467.83	7
167	Mustafa Neset Altuntaş	Add	Turkey	00473	Master M2	5.0058	121	1,466.18	121
168	Mohammad Davood Davaei	Add	Iran	00286		11.1348	66	1,463.27	66
169	Ayman Hamadeh	Add	Lebanon	00891	Advanced A3	9.3238	182	1,461.21	182
170	Ali Al Daftari	Add	Iraq	00737	Intermediate I2	12.4356	124	1,460.14	124
171	Mohammadamin Shafei	Add	Iran	00411		5.9651	66	1,459.72	66
172	Mehdi Moghadam	Add	Iran	00931		7.4031	56	1,459.14	56
173	Eva Žižková	Add	Czechia	00168		5.0586	70	1,458.26	478
174	Peter Hallberg	Add	Denmark	00311	Master M3	5.7565	1603	1,457.54	1633
175	Ali Al Baidhani	Add	Iraq	00991		19.7558	56	1,454.71	56
176	Masoud Aghdam	Add	Iran	00174	Advanced A3	9.1434	404	1,453.36	404
177	Dori Rady	Add	Lebanon	00746		7.3289	70	1,452.75	70
178	Mais Mohammed	Add	Canada	00892		14.4454	56	1,452.55	56
179	Mohammadhosein Ebrahimi	Add	Iran	00413	Master M2	5.0220	335	1,452.53	335
180	Reza Rajabi	Add	Iran	00656	Master M3	6.1454	278	1,452.45	278
181	Toni Bernaba	Add	Lebanon	00499	Master M1	3.1350	116	1,452.39	293
182	Ashkan Yahyazadeh	Add	Iran	00284		5.4140	66	1,452.26	94
183	Tony Diamantidis	Add	Greece	00714	Advanced A1	6.8872	133	1,450.28	148
184	Cristian Ghena	Add	Romania	00740		9.3987	28	1,450.00	28
185	Peter Van Rooij	Add	Netherlands	00867	Grandmaster G3	3.8538	291	1,449.77	291
186	Pat Keene	Add						1,449.45	18
187	Vladimir Andonovic	Add	North Macedonia	00886		14.7546	56	1,449.11	56
188	Hesam Soleimani	Add	Iran	00179				1,447.78	58
189	Milad Khalvandi	Add	Iran	00871	Master M1	4.3664	157	1,447.60	157
190	Pouria Mahouti	Add	Iran	00303	Advanced A2	8.5168	132	1,447.43	132
191	Hossein Aghili	Add	Iran	00481	Master M1	4.6963	466	1,444.70	466
192	Fadi Nseiry	Add	Lebanon	00941		10.7563	18	1,443.23	18
193	Kaveh Farahani	Add	Iran	00837	Master M1	4.8346	185	1,442.57	185
194	Bulent Bahar	Add	Turkey	00474	Master M2	5.2004	121	1,437.99	135
195	Andreas Sauseng	Add	Austria	00787	Advanced A1	6.5773	285	1,436.78	370
196	Amir Mojtabavi	Add	Iran	00191	Advanced A3	9.8896	167	1,436.69	167
197	Maryam Fahimi	Add	Iran	00661		8.1125	66	1,434.55	66
198	Mohammadreza Amini	Add	Iran	00175		4.7399	56	1,433.85	89
199	Ido Levi	Add	Israel	00502	Grandmaster G3	3.8955	168	1,432.61	168
200	Alireza Sarabi	Add	Iran	00528	Master M3	5.5705	100	1,430.20	117
201	Jessica Raad	Add	Lebanon	00709		19.7210	35	1,427.25	35
202	Francoise Crosbie	Add	Philippines	00992	Intermediate I3	14.7645	112	1,422.71	112
203	Pedram Kiasi	Add	Iran	00930		4.5767	56	1,413.36	56
204	Edris Ashhadi	Add	Iran	00839	Master M1	4.5263	119	1,413.36	119
205	Saeed Jafari	Add	Iran	00929		5.8886	56	1,412.57	56
206	Moore Wisener	Add	Ireland	00747	Advanced A3	9.7706	169	1,412.35	169
207	Neil Williams	Add	United Kingdom	00990		13.2916	56	1,407.06	56
208	Ali Bagheri	Add	Iran	00482	Advanced A3	8.7574	197	1,402.60	197
209	Nehme Moujaess	Add	Lebanon	00884	Intermediate I3	14.6690	105	1,400.53	105
210	Pouya Rajabi	Add	Iran	00305		10.5224	66	1,400.09	66
211	Tabet Tabet	Add	Lebanon	00702		9.6304	44	1,398.65	44
212	Babak Moradi	Add	Iran	00402		8.2981	66	1,393.91	66
213	Mete Topcuoglu	Add	Turkey	00480	Advanced A3	9.0531	121	1,392.02	121
214	Rabieh Adnan	Add	Lebanon	00743	Advanced A2	8.5487	147	1,391.16	147
215	Amin Shahvalizadeh	Add	Iran	00282		4.4806	94	1,387.28	94
216	Karim Abou Absi	Add	Lebanon	00704		8.9053	89	1,360.71	89
217	Bulent Karabulut	Add	Turkey	00477	Master M3	5.6289	121	1,339.12	121
218	Mohammadreza Shahabi	Add	Iran	00287		10.6537	66	1,331.43	66
219	Kian Ghods	Add	Iran	00281	Advanced A1	6.8978	226	1,330.84	226
220	Avi Cohen	Add	United States	00826	Master M3	6.7596	269	1,314.87	376

Ratings for new players start at 1,500. Players are removed from the rating table if they have not recorded any results for 15 full seasons.

Last result added on 2023-03-26.

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