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15SepSeptember 15, 2020

How Backgammon Will Bring Peace to the Middle East – Watch The Video

How backgammon can change the world and even bring peace - starting in Jerusalem. Zaki Djemal is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of fresh.fund, the first student-run venture capital fund in Israel. He is also Co-Founder of דאבל ירושלמי | دابل مقدسي | Jerusalem Double, Jerusalem’s first backgammon league and championship for Jews and Arabs. Past adventures of Zaki include: starting tradr, an e-commerce platform for independent fashion brands that is consistently among the most popular in the Brazilian App Store,...

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12SepSeptember 12, 2020

NEBA are our Champion Club 2020

NEBA are our Champion Club 2020 By Julia Hayward (That’s North East Backgammon Association if you didn’t already know!) Earlier in the year COVID intervened to prevent us holding our physical Clubs Championship… but there was such a strong reaction to the thought of us missing it out for a year that we leaped into the unknown and assembled an Online Clubs Championship at relatively short notice. The format was the same as normal – round robins of about four teams leading to a...

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12SepSeptember 12, 2020

Coolrey Fogerlund is No. 1 in U.S.A

Coolrey Fogerlund is No. 1 in U.S.A Interviewed by Phil Simborg Ray Fogerlund came in third at the ABT event in LA. No big accomplishment for Ray, since he has won many tournaments over the years, but it sealed his claim to the No. 1 Player of the year for 2009. It's the second time Ray has claimed this honor, and that says something, as the only other player who has ever won more than once is Neil Kazaross. Nice company! Ray is...

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03SepSeptember 3, 2020

Paragliders play backgammon while high in the sky | Watch Video

Paragliders play backgammon while high in the sky A pair of tandem paragliders played a game of backgammon and drank iced coffee while gliding through the air.

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03SepSeptember 3, 2020

Former World Champion Zoe Cunningham on The Pedagogical Power of Backgammon

Sports Editor Joseph Powell sits down with 2010 Women’s World Backgammon Champion and Trinity alum Zoe Cunningham to discuss Monte Carlo, the educational power of the game and octopus banquets with David Cameron. oe Cunningham is a real renaissance woman. When we meet on a cold Friday afternoon in London (a day after the General Election and it’s roller-coaster all night coverage, which she sensibly didn’t bother with), she’s on her lunch break from a day working at home in her capacity...

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03SepSeptember 3, 2020

Mike Corbett, Not Your Ordinary Hippie

If you saw Mike Corbett walking down the street with his flowing white hair and casual attire, you might think he's some displaced California surfer dude who somehow landed in Ft. Lauderdale. Or if you know the South Florida scene, you've probably seen the Florida version of the California Surfer Dude—the Florida Sail Board dude. But don't be fooled by appearances. What you are really looking at is a man who is provably one of the most intelligent and fiercely...

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30AugAugust 30, 2020

Katgammon Special Thanks To Customers

Did you feel too that the past few months have been rough and tough? We have the same feeling and wish when this year comes to an end, everyone around the globe would be happier and healthier, and that backgammon players gather again smiling and rolling dices happily. Through the past year, all of you our friends, players and masters from different countries supported and encouraged Katgammon in many ways; either by ordering our new equipments for tournaments, or providing...

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15AugAugust 15, 2020

Tobias Hellwag International Backgammon Ambassador

I met Tobias last year when he came to Chicago strictly to play in our local Chicago backgammon events and daily chouettes. (He had recently spent time with Matt Cohn-Geier in Japan, and Matt probably told him how much he had learned about backgammon from the superior players in our chouette.) Very quickly he gained my respect both as a backgammon player and as an exceptional person. We became good friends, but before long I realized he was one of the...

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15AugAugust 15, 2020

How to Run a Backgammon Tournament – Crawford 1970

Backgammon, like most games and sports, is easily adapted to tournament play. As a matter of fact, backgammon is so versatile a game that it is adaptable to a number of different kinds of tournaments. The first step in running a tournament is to get together a group who want to play in one; the next step is to establish tournament rules and conditions of play. Of course you will follow the regular laws of backgammon whenever possible but you’ll...

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