In late spring, while spending a long, rainy weekend at a friend’s mid-century home on the southern shore of Lake Michigan, I found myself—for the first time in years—engrossed in a game of backgammon ...

Walking through the lobby of the Fairmont hotel in Monaco, home to the Backgammon World Championship, is like striding through an aquarium. Well-tended women, summa cum laude graduates of the Ivanka ...

Earlier this week, 500 people came together for the 2nd annual Jerusalem Double Backgammon Championship. Muslim, Jewish, and Christian, secular and religious, left-wing and right-wing, all were united ...

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In order to meet Falafel, the highest ranked backgammon player in the world, I took a Greyhound bus to Atlantic City, and then hopped a jitney to the Borgata Hotel. Falafel’s real name is Matvey ...

Poker and Backgammon share many interesting similarities. In fact, many of the top poker pros, like Gus Hansen and Erik Seidel, played tournament Backgammon before the poker craze. With the advent of ...

Mick Jagger in Barbados with Jerry Hall, just prior to his fortieth birthday. Walking through the lobby of the Fairmont hotel in Monaco, home to the Backgammon World Championship, is like striding ...