Dirk Schiemann

Dirk Schiemann

Born in Dinslaken, Germany in 1970 Dirk Schiemann started to play backgammon tournaments at the age of 19. While studying mathematics at the University of Dortmund he began traveling to international tournaments and became a professional backgammon player in the mid-nineties. He won his first international tournament in Rio de Janeiro in 1996 Between 1999 and 2005 Dirk was among the top ten Giants of Backgammon being nr. 3 Giant in 2003. In 2004 he quit backgammon, moved to Costa Rica and became a professional poker player. After quitting as a professional games player in 2012 and moving back to Germany, he started studying backgammon and traveling to tournaments again in 2017. In 2018 he became World Team Champion with Germany and won the Bahamas Invitational. In 2019 he won the Porta Nigra Invitational in Trier and in 2020 the UBC Contender tournament. In 2021 he published the groundbreaking work “The Theory of Backgammon”. He was voted nr. 6 Giant in 2023. Dirk gives private backgammon lessons and can also be found playing online on Backgammon Galaxy and on Backgammon Studio Heroes where he won the invitational tournament “Best of the Best” three times in a row from 2021 to 2023.