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	Art Benjamin	Add	United States	00403	Master M1	4.4785	440	1,690.65	617
2	Yasin Okal	Add	Turkey	00471	Master M1	3.9264	130	1,670.65	130
3	Dorel Leon	Add	Romania	00561	Master M1	4.7288	362	1,655.51	408
4	Tim Cross	Add	United Kingdom	00134	Grandmaster G2	3.7222	5406	1,653.61	5406
5	Burak Çulhacı	Add	Turkey	00731	Grandmaster G3	3.8368	662	1,650.05	692
6	Patrick Gebeili	Add	France	00744	Advanced A1	7.0415	339	1,646.51	339
7	Ali Nazeri	Add	Iran	00304	Advanced A2	7.5869	132	1,640.79	132
8	Cuneyt Argun Genc	Add	Turkey	00472	Grandmaster G3	3.7972	221	1,634.99	232
9	Michihito Kageyama	Add	Japan	00108	Grandmaster G0	2.7234	1349	1,633.93	1522
10	Shahab M Gargash	Add	United Arab Emirates	00989		14.1786	56	1,633.73	56
11	Victor Ashkenazi	Add	United States	00201	Grandmaster G0	3.1807	1812	1,629.07	1852
12	Oliver Squire	Add	United Kingdom	00555	Grandmaster G3	3.7051	817	1,618.42	966
13	Ricardo Malas	Add	Lebanon	00967		6.4301	18	1,616.95	36
14	Saleh Farjallah	Add	Lebanon	00701	Advanced A2	8.2861	147	1,616.47	147
15	Johan Norberg	Add	Sweden	00674	Master M2	5.3397	470	1,615.55	488
16	Kamran Sharifi	Add	Iran	00412		5.5741	66	1,614.02	66
17	Joe Bernaba	Add	Lebanon	00700	Grandmaster G3	3.9195	169	1,613.81	169
18	Benjamin Lund	Add	Denmark	00400	Grandmaster G3	3.7894	2844	1,608.81	2958
19	Saeed Mousavi	Add	Iran	00187	Advanced A1	7.0616	327	1,608.20	327
20	Elias Kritikos	Add	Norway	00619	Grandmaster G2	3.7364	869	1,604.73	891
21	Salar Rasoolzadeh	Add	Iran	00192				1,601.14	160
22	Paul Karam	Add	Lebanon	00705		10.9913	44	1,598.79	44
23	Sander Lylloff	Add	Denmark	00809	Grandmaster G2	2.7007	245	1,598.30	328
24	Thomas Tenland	Add	Sweden	00307	Grandmaster G1	2.8425	1261	1,597.31	1329
25	Sajed Abbasi	Add	Iran	00279				1,592.06	80
26	Nick Blasier	Add	United States	00369	Master M1	4.9734	1670	1,590.18	1700
27	Dagfinn Snarheim	Add	Norway	00618	Grandmaster G1	3.3915	979	1,589.60	1043
28	Masayuki Mochizuki	Add	Japan	00110	Super Grandmaster S2	2.4071	3524	1,588.32	3625
29	Rainer Birkle	Add	Germany	00903	Master M3	5.5998	147	1,587.36	178
30	Hassan Mokdad	Add	Lebanon	00745	Advanced A3	8.5788	190	1,587.02	190
31	Mostafa Zamiri	Add	Iran	00872	Master M1	4.6173	122	1,586.47	122
32	Klaus Switon	Add	Denmark	00229	Master M3	5.8953	400	1,583.28	497
33	Andy Abi Haidar	Add	Lebanon	00943		11.4543	27	1,582.43	27
34	Marc Olsen	Add	Denmark	00143	Grandmaster G2	3.7171	657	1,582.28	733
35	Ali Vafadar	Add	Iran	00655		5.6370	65	1,580.36	65
36	Jürgen Orlowski	Add	Germany	00654		4.8096	42	1,578.96	165
37	Roohollah Amiri Andy	Add	Iran	00176	Grandmaster G3	3.5682	654	1,577.11	654
38	Alaattin Ozaltun	Add	Turkey	00475	Master M2	5.2146	121	1,575.97	121
39	Anis Samaha	Add	Lebanon	00816		8.9262	63	1,575.95	63
40	İbrahim Karaca	Add	Turkey	00476	Master M2	5.0785	243	1,573.51	256
41	John O'Hagan	Add	United States	00252	Grandmaster G2	4.2345	3467	1,573.04	3497
42	Irshad Khan	Add	Pakistan	00893		12.7650	49	1,571.69	49
43	Erhan Yenisen	Add	Turkey	00470	Master M1	3.9023	121	1,571.48	130
44	Jalil Khalili	Add	Iran	00178	Master M2	5.3730	686	1,570.54	686
45	Steve Sax	Add	United States	00169	Grandmaster G2	3.3392	4520	1,569.80	4645
46	Ronald Weenink	Add	Unknown Country					1,569.80	21
47	Milad Momeni	Add	Iran	00410	Advanced A1	7.4491	132	1,569.53	132
48	Amir Golegolab	Add	Iran	00401	Grandmaster G3	3.8838	244	1,569.22	244
49	Marcus Reinhard	Add	Germany	00688	Master M1	4.3567	885	1,569.11	931
50	Karen Davis	Add	United States	00345	Master M2	6.7403	2382	1,566.70	2528
51	Fernando Neumark	Add	Argentina	00613		4.4199	98	1,566.30	133
52	Smbat Pogosyan	Add	Armenia	00888		6.6079	63	1,564.10	63
53	Dincer Gunes	Add	Unknown Country					1,560.97	44
54	Amirali Tavakoli	Add	Iran	00840	Master M1	4.2841	241	1,559.61	254
55	Umur Aras	Add	Turkey	00811	Master M1	3.9310	126	1,557.88	148
56	Shahin Nejat	Add	Iran	00873	Grandmaster G3	4.1567	206	1,556.78	206
57	Nariman Rezapour	Add	Iran	00932		4.2941	56	1,556.26	56
58	Zdeněk Žižka	Add	Czechia	00167	Grandmaster G0	2.7974	901	1,555.28	1033
59	Johan Huyck	Add	Belgium	00296	Master M2	4.8385	687	1,554.52	870
60	Ali Cetin Belene	Add	Turkey	00469	Grandmaster G1	2.9118	375	1,554.35	375
61	Tore Eklund Fredriksen	Add	Norway	00632	Master M1	3.7273	114	1,553.84	127
62	Sebastian Wilkinson	Add	United Kingdom	00185	Grandmaster G2	3.4586	1449	1,553.36	1558
63	Talat Bağıbala	Add	Turkey	00732		11.7508	70	1,551.31	70
64	Stefan Parlow	Add	Austria	00209	Master M2	5.3041	2427	1,551.12	2481
65	Amir Eshraghi	Add	Iran	00177	Grandmaster G3	3.7524	1032	1,548.03	1041
66	Soinguli Amirov	Add	Georgia					1,546.15	27
67	Simon Barget	Add	United Kingdom	00153	Grandmaster G3	3.7505	327	1,544.91	580
68	Mahmoud Abbasi	Add	Iran	00756		5.7498	28	1,544.91	28
69	Hazhir Attari	Add	Iran	00874	Master M1	4.5783	122	1,542.06	122
70	Thomas Myhr	Add	Denmark	00150	Grandmaster G2	3.5070	2518	1,540.89	2638
71	Bariş Bülent Muzoğlu	Add	Unknown Country					1,540.63	9
72	Giti Omidi	Add	Iran	00659		16.3545	55	1,539.85	55
73	Mohammadreza Moienfar	Add						1,539.39	11
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					1,536.40	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	1,534.47	235
81	Kerim Lokman	Add	Unknown Country					1,532.70	9
82	Alp Yilmaz	Add	Unknown Country					1,532.36	9
83	Sebahattin Gok	Add	Unknown Country					1,532.31	9
84	Joseph Abboud	Add	Lebanon	00707		12.2793	62	1,532.16	62
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	Jon Kristian Røyset	Add	Norway	00648		4.3755	68	1,526.70	167
93	Mustafa Guneralp	Add	Unknown Country					1,526.35	7
94	Arthuro Braakx	Add	Unknown Country					1,525.82	7
95	Bert Van Kerkhove	Add	Unknown Country					1,524.87	7
96	Farhad Heydari	Add	Iran	00758	Master M2	6.0508	199	1,523.48	199
97	T. Ucarer	Add						1,523.36	5
98	Kamyar Karimi	Add						1,521.30	55
99	Heribert Lindner	Add	Germany	00590		6.4556	81	1,520.17	157
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	1,518.24	98
102	Mehdi Asdaghi	Add	Iran	00928		4.3943	77	1,516.09	77
103	Mehmet Cakici	Add	WBGF	00860		5.8490	98	1,515.05	105
104	Jakob Rasmussen	Add	Denmark	00715	Grandmaster G2	3.2981	967	1,513.53	967
105	Albert Steg	Add	United States	00504	Master M1	5.4275	861	1,513.41	1498
106	Fati̇h Belli̇ci̇	Add	Unknown Country					1,513.20	18
107	Farhang Shahidara	Add	Iran	00306	Master M1	4.8389	483	1,512.49	483
108	Cesur Kaya	Add	Unknown Country					1,512.24	18
109	Jean Abi Haidar	Add	Lebanon	00703		7.5276	98	1,511.36	98
110	Cihangir Çetinel	Add	Turkey	00846	Master M3	6.3480	303	1,509.72	325
111	Didi	Add						1,509.33	22
112	Gaz Owen	Add	United Kingdom	00156	Grandmaster G3	3.6632	393	1,509.26	875
113	Aykut Uzel	Add	Turkey	00812		5.4177	98	1,508.81	124
114	Bahareh Talaei	Add	Iran	00283				1,506.32	14
115	Farid Al Chakti	Add	Lebanon	00742		10.8636	28	1,505.75	28
116	Ozan Özgür	Add	Turkey	00728	Master M1	4.1539	133	1,504.67	133
117	Geir Pedersen	Add	Norway	00620	Grandmaster G3	4.0025	670	1,503.54	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	David Klausa	Add	United States	00616	Master M1	4.9975	1130	1,498.57	1184
122	Joseph Helou	Add	Lebanon	00944		12.1775	18	1,497.50	18
123	Dirk Schiemann	Add	Germany	00117	Grandmaster G1	2.9908	482	1,496.93	540
124	Mehdi Razmjoei	Add	Iran	00835	Master M1	4.5506	185	1,496.79	185
125	Phil Perelmuter	Add	United States	00806	Advanced A2	9.3034	432	1,496.45	432
126	Fady Asmar	Add	Lebanon	00706		10.9163	98	1,496.40	98
127	Omid Alijani	Add	Iran	00927		4.7587	56	1,495.70	56
128	Omid Irannejad	Add	Iran	00662		9.2966	66	1,494.52	66
129	Ziad Amine	Add	Lebanon	00887	Intermediate I3	14.1396	105	1,493.66	105
130	Arash Afroozian	Add	Iran	00755	Grandmaster G3	3.8936	444	1,492.99	444
131	Jasper Watertor	Add	Unknown Country					1,492.32	16
132	Mohammadreza Moeinfar	Add	Iran	00190		5.0052	66	1,491.44	319
133	Hamidreza Shahrokhi	Add	Iran	00193				1,489.47	292
134	Feza Diyarbekir	Add	Turkey	00478	Master M3	6.1049	134	1,487.71	134
135	Nima Ardalan	Add	Iran	00757		4.0634	77	1,486.74	77
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	1,484.97	490
138	Rony Sadek	Add	Lebanon	00708		13.8220	89	1,483.80	89
139	Rune Færevåg	Add	Norway	00629	Master M1	4.8959	505	1,482.52	615
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	1,478.38	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					1,476.04	9
148	Krasimira Zlatinovia	Add	Unknown Country					1,475.46	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					1,474.48	11
152	Recep Ural	Add	Turkey					1,474.09	7
153	Bakar Matikashvili	Add	Georgia	00810		4.7535	98	1,473.30	116
154	Maan Hachem	Add	Lebanon	00940		6.4769	27	1,473.27	27
155	Mohammad Amin Sha	Add	Unknown Country					1,473.22	7
156	Emrullah Cosar	Add	Turkey					1,472.57	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 Nseiry	Add	Lebanon	01033		8.2177	9	1,470.29	9
161	Fady Choucair	Add	Lebanon	00947		8.9407	9	1,470.00	9
162	Mustafa Kemal Arslan	Add	Unknown Country					1,469.54	9
163	Erkan Nayir	Add	Turkey					1,469.53	9
164	Mario Wakim	Add	Lebanon	01032		10.0313	9	1,469.28	9
165	Jeremy Sherr	Add	Unknown Country					1,469.21	9
166	Meisam Abbasi	Add	Iran	00278				1,469.06	87
167	Oktay Kurhan	Add	Turkey					1,468.89	9
168	Soroush Asadi	Add	Iran	00280				1,467.83	7
169	Joe Chiha	Add	Lebanon	00815		9.5356	63	1,466.64	63
170	Mustafa Neset Altuntaş	Add	Turkey	00473	Master M2	5.0058	121	1,466.18	121
171	Mohammad Davood Davaei	Add	Iran	00286		11.1348	66	1,463.27	66
172	Peter Hallberg	Add	Denmark	00311	Master M3	5.6706	1687	1,461.47	1717
173	Ayman Hamadeh	Add	Lebanon	00891	Advanced A3	9.3238	182	1,461.21	182
174	Ido Levi	Add	Israel	00502	Grandmaster G3	3.8838	177	1,460.51	177
175	Ali Al Daftari	Add	Iraq	00737	Intermediate I2	12.4356	124	1,460.14	124
176	Mohammadamin Shafei	Add	Iran	00411		5.9651	66	1,459.72	66
177	Mehdi Moghadam	Add	Iran	00931		7.4031	56	1,459.14	56
178	Eva Žižková	Add	Czechia	00168		5.0586	70	1,458.23	478
179	Ali Al Baidhani	Add	Iraq	00991		19.7558	56	1,454.71	56
180	Marcel Büker	Add		00902		9.7286	35	1,453.91	81
181	Masoud Aghdam	Add	Iran	00174	Advanced A3	9.1434	404	1,453.36	404
182	Dori Rady	Add	Lebanon	00746		7.3289	70	1,452.75	70
183	Mais Mohammed	Add	Canada	00892		14.4454	56	1,452.55	56
184	Mohammadhosein Ebrahimi	Add	Iran	00413	Master M2	5.0220	335	1,452.53	335
185	Reza Rajabi	Add	Iran	00656	Master M3	6.1454	278	1,452.45	278
186	Toni Bernaba	Add	Lebanon	00499	Master M1	3.1350	116	1,452.27	293
187	Ashkan Yahyazadeh	Add	Iran	00284		5.4140	66	1,452.26	94
188	Tony Diamantidis	Add	Greece	00714	Advanced A1	6.8872	133	1,450.09	148
189	Cristian Ghena	Add	Romania	00740		9.3987	28	1,450.00	28
190	Peter Van Rooij	Add	Netherlands	00867	Grandmaster G3	3.8538	291	1,449.76	291
191	Pat Keene	Add						1,449.44	18
192	Vladimir Andonovic	Add	North Macedonia	00886		14.7546	56	1,449.11	56
193	Hesam Soleimani	Add	Iran	00179				1,447.78	58
194	Milad Khalvandi	Add	Iran	00871	Master M1	4.3664	157	1,447.60	157
195	Pouria Mahouti	Add	Iran	00303	Advanced A2	8.5168	132	1,447.43	132
196	Andreas Sauseng	Add	Austria	00787	Advanced A1	6.5773	285	1,444.95	377
197	Hossein Aghili	Add	Iran	00481	Master M1	4.6963	466	1,444.70	466
198	Fadi Nseiry	Add	Lebanon	00941		10.7563	18	1,443.23	18
199	Kaveh Farahani	Add	Iran	00837	Master M1	4.8346	185	1,442.57	185
200	Bulent Bahar	Add	Turkey	00474	Master M2	5.2004	121	1,437.96	135
201	Amir Mojtabavi	Add	Iran	00191	Advanced A3	9.8896	167	1,436.69	167
202	Maryam Fahimi	Add	Iran	00661		8.1125	66	1,434.55	66
203	Mohammadreza Amini	Add	Iran	00175		4.7399	56	1,433.85	89
204	Alireza Sarabi	Add	Iran	00528	Master M3	5.5705	100	1,430.19	117
205	Jessica Raad	Add	Lebanon	00709		19.7210	35	1,427.25	35
206	Francoise Crosbie	Add	Philippines	00992	Intermediate I3	14.7645	112	1,422.71	112
207	Pedram Kiasi	Add	Iran	00930		4.5767	56	1,413.36	56
208	Edris Ashhadi	Add	Iran	00839	Master M1	4.5263	119	1,413.36	119
209	Saeed Jafari	Add	Iran	00929		5.8886	56	1,412.56	56
210	Moore Wisener	Add	Ireland	00747	Advanced A3	9.7706	169	1,412.35	169
211	Neil Williams	Add	United Kingdom	00990		13.2916	56	1,407.06	56
212	Ali Bagheri	Add	Iran	00482	Advanced A3	8.7574	197	1,402.60	197
213	Nehme Moujaess	Add	Lebanon	00884	Intermediate I3	14.6690	105	1,400.53	105
214	Pouya Rajabi	Add	Iran	00305		10.5224	66	1,400.09	66
215	Tabet Tabet	Add	Lebanon	00702		9.6304	44	1,398.65	44
216	Babak Moradi	Add	Iran	00402		8.2981	66	1,393.91	66
217	Mete Topcuoglu	Add	Turkey	00480	Advanced A3	9.0531	121	1,392.02	121
218	Karim Abou Absi	Add	Lebanon	00704		9.0057	98	1,391.18	98
219	Rabieh Adnan	Add	Lebanon	00743	Advanced A2	8.5487	147	1,391.16	147
220	Amin Shahvalizadeh	Add	Iran	00282		4.4806	94	1,387.28	94
221	Bulent Karabulut	Add	Turkey	00477	Master M3	5.6289	121	1,339.12	121
222	Mohammadreza Shahabi	Add	Iran	00287		10.6537	66	1,331.43	66
223	Kian Ghods	Add	Iran	00281	Advanced A1	6.8978	226	1,330.84	226
224	Avi Cohen	Add	United States	00826	Master M3	6.7596	269	1,314.57	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 2023-05-14.

How ratings are calculated.