Although there is no unified system to rank accurately the best players in the world, Yamin A. Yamin from Illinois, USA has set up a democtratic system among all the big players and tournament directors to figure a somewhat exact ranking. Some might disagree on a few names and would rather see other names instead but all in all, it is a pretty realistic list of the top 64 players in the world. Here you will find the names, pictures and natonalities of the current 30 top players.
For a full list of the "Giants", please visit: www.flintbg.com/giants.html.
Backgammon Giants 2024
Rank Name |
Country |
|---|---|
| 1. Masayuki "Mochy" Mochizuki (1) | Japan |
| 2. Zdenek Zizak (4) | Czechia |
| 3. Dirk Schiemann (6) | Germany |
| 4. Michihito "Michi" Kageyama (3) | Japan |
| 5. Victor Ashkenazi (5) | USA |
| 6. Sander Lylloff (2) | Denmark |
| 7. Wilcox Snellings (7) | Costa Rica |
| 8. Sebastian Wilkinson (17) | England |
| 9. Thomas Tenland (9) | Sweden |
| 10. Oliver Squire (333) | England |
| 11. Hideaki Ueda (8) | Japan |
| 12. Jörgen Granstedt (19) | Sweden |
| 13. Akiko Yazawa (15) | Japan |
| 14. Ryan Rebelo (27) | Canada |
| 15. Gerry Tansey (23) | USA |
| 16. Neil Kazaross (11) | USA |
| 17. John O'Hagan (10) | USA |
| 18. Matt Cohn-Geier (16) | USA |
| 19. Steve Sax (18) | USA |
| 20. Frank Frigo (98) | USA |
| 21. Ali Çetin Belene (21) | Turkey |
| 22. Marty Storer (13) | USA |
| 23. Dagfinn Snarheim (26) | Norway |
| 24. Petko Kostadinov (14) | USA |
| 25. Kazuki Yokota (25) | Japan |
| 26. Tobias Hellwag (34) | Germany |
| 27. Kit Woolsey (24) | USA |
| 28. Chris Trencher (42) | USA |
| 29. Mario Kühl (365) | Germany |
| 30. Fernando Braconi (37) | Italy |
| 31. Carlo Melzi (35) | Italy |
| 32. Lars Trabolt (12) | Denmark |