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24NovNovember 24, 2020

Entente Cordiale

As the UK and France celebrate the countries’ co-operation during the Second World War with the visit of President Macron to Westminster, another example of the Entente Cordiale has broken out across the backgammon board. A team of some of the best players in the UK will be pitting their backgammon wits and talents against a team from across La Manche this weekend. The challenge will comprise 27 nine-point matches – with three rounds of nine matches, with the winning team the first...

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24NovNovember 24, 2020

Masters of Backgammon Biographies

Bill Robertie, U.S.A Bill Robertie is a two-time Monte Carlo World Backgammon Champion, winning the world’s biggest event in 1983 and in 1987. He also won the Pro Am tournament when it was held in the Bahamas in 1993 as well as the World Cup in Istanbul in 1994. Robertie also won the International Cup at the 2001 Worldwide Twin Championships in Las Vegas, Nevada and was also one of the 25 Giants of Backgammon who played at the Atlantis...

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24NovNovember 24, 2020

The History of Backgammon

By Joy Lee Barnhart From the online manual for Bob's Backgammon Backgammon has its origins in the early board games developed in Ur of Mesopotamia 5000 years ago. Boards bearing a resemblance to backgammon have been unearthed in excavations along with matching dice and inlaid playing pieces. The game appears to have moved from there to ancient India where it and Parcheesi developed from a common ancestor. A variant called Sennet was played by the ancient Egyptians. By the time of Plato...

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24NovNovember 24, 2020

Basics for Beginners

Backgammon is a very easy game to learn; its very simplicity is, paradoxically, one of the main reasons for its relative lack of broad-based popularity over the years. Most people know it as “the game with all the points on the back of the checkerboard.” The instructions on how to play accompanying these boards are equally simplistic — if you can understand them at all. Thus, if one is so inclined, or possibly merely inquisitive, the board may be set...

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24NovNovember 24, 2020

Online Chouettes

Introduction to Chouettes A chouette is a fun, social, multiplayer form of backgammon. It can be a tremendous amount of fun, with lots of cube turns, players taking different points of view, getting to rotate and play as a teammate of another player one game and against him the next. However, if they are not done right, especially online, chouettes can get boring quickly. This page will give you an outline of what a chouette is and how to play. I...

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24NovNovember 24, 2020

Art Benjamin, a Player You Can Count On

Art Benjamin, a Player You Can Count On Professor Art Benjamin serves on the U.S. Backgammon Federation Board of Directors and chairs its Education Committee. He is a Professor of Mathematics at Harvey Mudd College. As an internationally famous "mathemagician," he has over 12 million views of his three TED talks, an appearance on The Colbert Report, and a book on the New York Times Bestseller list. Because of his family, book writing, and performing, he doesn't get to travel...

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24NovNovember 24, 2020

Clocks in Backgammon

Clocks in Backgammon There has been much discussion about the use of clocks at backgammon tournaments on the bulletin board, so I thought it would be a good idea to have a full article discussing clocks. This will consist of several things which been written in the past, as well as my own discussion. I would like to thank Carol Cole, editor of The Flint Area Backgammon Newsletter and Bill Robertie, editor of the late Inside Backgammon, for giving me...

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24NovNovember 24, 2020

Starting a Backgammon Club

Starting a Backgammon Club Where should we meet? It's very hard starting a backgammon club, and you will need patience, at least two backgammon players, and a lot of help. First of all find a venue to play at, preferably with a bar for light refreshments! Most pubs have a spare room especially midweek. Lincoln Backgammon Club meets each Tuesday night at the Liberal Club right in the centre of Lincoln. As members of The Liberal Club we get to use...

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24NovNovember 24, 2020

With Backgammon Player’s-Jess Danielsen

With Backgammon Player's-Jess Danielsen I was born in 1974 in Denmark, and I started playing online backgammon in 1998. I heard about the cafe tournaments in Copenhagen, I attended, and I was completely hooked. When I had kids I had a 4.5-year break from the game, but I returned in 2011 eager to retain knowledge. During my break, DBgF had introduced a norm system with titles like chess, and that just motivated me even more. Over the years I have...

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