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Backgammon enthusiasts will be sharpening their skills ahead of the seventh staging of the Jamaica Inn Foundation Open Backgammon Tournament, which will take place from June 14-16 and is again being ...

Undefeated and unfazed, 17-year-old prodigy John Issa created quite a stir at the recent Jamaica Inn Foundation Backgammon tournament, after getting the better of William Mahfood in a keenly contested ...

In an effort to replicate its enormous success with online poker, PartyGammon (a popular member of PartyGaming's gaming suite) has just completed the inaugural PartyGammon.com Million Tournament at ...

With Palestinian-Israeli relations at a low point, events that bring together Jews and Arabs are more important than ever, organizers say. JERUSALEM — On a balmy evening recently, Arabs and Jews ...

Sandra Baltazar Martinez The game is not just about luck. Players need skill, strategy and an analytical mind in order to beat the best of the best at backgammon. Today, the first sanctioned American ...

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 ...

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 ...

Felt-lined briefcases lie open-faced, occupying every available surface at the A.R. Private Club, a small space in a strip mall near the Beverly Center. It’s after midnight and opposing players are ...

About 10,000 years ago, humans domesticated plants and animals. Some 5,000 years later, they developed a system of writing. And then, having accomplished that, they sat down to play backgammon. That's ...

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 ...