Backgammon is a game that should perhaps have a greater level of popularity, given the fact that it has been available to play for centuries. The classic game is thought to have been around for around ...

Marc Olsen was just 18 when he started winning money at backgammon. Sitting at his computer in Copenhagen in 2004, he would ...

Did you get together over the holidays and play games with your family? It was certainly a good time to do it, and those ...

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Now seems as a good a time as any for a confession. Before I got my grubby hands on Backgammon Blitz, I hadn’t played, or knew how to play the game in the slightest. Fortunately for me and my lacking ...

For years, I’ve spent my Saturdays in a dark room in Brooklyn, staring at triangles. I spend them celebrating and arguing with friends and strangers alike. I spend them building barricades and ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. We humans have been playing backgammon in some form for five millennia. It has been unearthed by archaeologists ...

A Russian-born émigré by way of Israel, he made a gambler’s living taking on challengers, and often hustling them, in becoming the world’s ranking player. By Sam Roberts Matvey Natanzon, who was known ...