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Mobina Arsene Wenger tells the extraordinary story of his stellar managerial career in his own words, charting a path from his early days at Nancy and Nagoya Grampus Eight to his two decades plus of iconic success with Arsenal. Typically thoughtful, incisive and revealing about both his own achievements and footballing philosophy as a whole, My Life in Red and White is the book all football fans have been waiting for.
The European Split The question of what to do with a lone back checker can be very tricky. Ideally you would like to get it out and safely home. But is it worth moving the checker up partway in the opponent's home board, subjecting it to attack? That can be a difficult problem. Several years ago European players were much more prone to make this sort of play than American players. For this reason American writers dubbed it the European split....
Exclusive First Interview with New World Champion Philip Vischjager GammonLife.com is honoured to publish this very first interview with Mr. Philip Vischjager of The Netherlands who just won the 2006 World Championship of Backgammon in Monte Carlo last month. GammonLife - Hi Philip, congratulations for winning the World Championship in Monte Carlo last month and thank you for accepting this exclusive first interview with GammonLife.com. Could you please tell us a little about yourself? Philip Vischjager - I am 47 years old and married since...
US Backgammon Champion 2010 What are the odds that the same player would win a seat at a backgammon championship in an online qualifier and then outplay eight matches in a row to triumph the championship itself? “It is a highly improbable sequence of events” said Mary Hickey, also known as “mamabear64″, who had won both the Play65 US Open qualifier and the 2nd US Backgammon Open championship itself, “winning eight matches in a row, not a likely occurrence on any given day or weekend.” “Sure, it rates...
The Backgammon Blitz I believe the best way to understand how to do a proper blitz in backgammon is to start with the dictionary. The dictionary defines the word blitz as follows: An overwhelming all-out attack. The idea of the blitz is to barrage your opponent by hitting him and making points and hopefully, if you are successful, closing him out completely so that he has one or more checkers on the bar while you proceed to win a gammon or backgammon. Of course the word blitz...
Switching Gears Many backgammon games follow a definable thread from beginning to end. The game plays out more or less as both sides expect, the strategic themes are well understood, and what is required from the players is mostly accuracy of technique. (Not that this is always so easy.) Sometimes, however, something quite different happens. A game appears to be following a certain course for awhile, then a tactical possibility arises which allows one of the players to wrench the game...
Chiva Tafazzoli Chiva Tafazzoli is one of the most respected and prominent figures in backgammon today. Less of a player and more of an organizer and Tournament Director, Chiva founded the World Backgammon Association (WBA) and made it the leading authority for international tournaments in less than a decade. Well-traveled players will tell you that Chiva's tournaments are the best organized, offer the most fun and have the highest equity and added money of the circuit. WBA is currently running the 4th Season...
New Ideas in Backgammon by Kit Woolsey & Hal Heinrich Does anyone know what piece of technology revolutionized backgammon? Picture a time so remote that assigning it a date would serve no useful purpose. Imagine a troglodyte, toiling in his lonely cave. Gnawing absently on the shank of a sheep (the tallow waxing his matted beard), he grunts in concentration. He seeks to invent...something. Fire, the wheel, papyrus, or perhaps a Maytag washer. Anything that will change the course of history....