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HIGH-ROLLING Middle Eastern gamblers aiming to take your cash on the backgammon boards of cyberspace are the next big thing in internet betting, online giant PartyGaming predicted today. Announcing better-than-expected first-quarter revenues of $342 milli

Byline: Douglass Dowty Staff writer Richard Malinowski Jr. watches free cable TV, plays rounds of Scrabble and backgammon and slumbers in a cell with central air. The 38-year-old from Baldwinsville is in the Onondaga County Justice Center jail, where he's

Games With a Twist Edition: FINAL Section: Weekend Playing board games doesn't have to be a stay-at-home activity. Some area bars and coffeehouses stock games for patrons to play. Information about several local watering holes with a selection of games is

. JAQUES 1850 ORIGINAL STAUNTON [pounds sterling]3,000, jaques.co.uk (king height: 4.4in) Limited to a run of 250, this luxury chess set features handcrafted pieces made of ebony and boxwood. Each is nicely weighted and has a leathercovered base so it won

Byline: By Peter Sharkey RECENTLY I met up with some friends with whom I used to work in the Middle East. As we tend to enjoy the odd wager, one of our group arrived clutching a backgammon board and promising something a bit differennt . There were more t

Byline: By Peter Sharkey RECENTLY I met up with some friends with whom I used to work in the Middle East. As we tend to enjoy the odd wager, one of our group arrived clutching a backgammon board and promising something a bit different . There were more th

Byline: John Murphy Mar. 22--QALANSUWA, Israel--Striding past drab concrete homes, shuttered businesses and dusty coffee houses where old men played backgammon, Ibrahim Sarsur, leader of Israel's new united Arab political party, appeared determined on a r

PARCHEESI [Parcheesi] see backgammon .

Publication: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

BACKGAMMON [backgammon] , game of chance and skill played by two persons upon a specially marked board divided by a space, called the bar, into two tables (inner table and outer table), each of which has 12 alternately colored points, or triangular spaces

Byline: RICHARD KAY LEGENDARY gambling figure Dan Meinertzhagen will be trying his luck at the tables again this weekend - but this time it's all for charity. The Old Etonian and former Oxford boxing blue, who was part of the missing Earl of Lucan's gamin

TEN: Baghdatis heroics make tennis a love game in Cyprus By Michele Kambas NICOSIA, Jan 24 Reuters - In Cyprus, the tennis term 'deuce' is usually reserved for leisurely games of backgammon in smoke-filled, dusty coffee shops. With only a dozen or so tenn

LONDON -- GameAccount, (www.gameaccount.com), the world's largest integrated network of skill-based games, has been chosen by leading independent bookmaker and gaming group, Victor Chandler International headquartered in Gibraltar. Under the terms of the

Byline: By Peter SHARKEY BACKGAMMON is often described as the poker of the Mediterranean and 2006 could be the year when most on-line gaming sites start offering it as an alternative to their popular poker rooms. UKBetting already have the game as an opti

ASPREY This deluxe leather board is totally handcrafted, and each one takes a month to make - even the individual wooden pieces are hand-tooled and leather-covered. Asprey have made these for 30 years, and decades-old boards still fetch thousands on eBay.

Byline: JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT JERMYN STREET . . . and Fortnum's has tins of cassoulet and backgammon boards in the window. Nobody, as far as I know, eats tinned cassoulet, not even in France, and nobody plays backgammon any longer. You know these harbingers o

Byline: Bill McEwen THE FRESNO BEE The story of how Harry Boyajian crashed his car in a canal begins with backgammon, a game he learned from his father 73 years ago. Boyajian was 15 at the time, making him 88 now. Which is neither here nor there because t

The mahogany Sheraton game table recalls an era of Leisurely elegance. A tooled-leather backgammon board hides beneath a chessboard of satin and rosewood inlay. Flip the chessboard over, and you get a figured mahogany top; two side drawers store game piec

KNITTING Julia Roberts, 38, loves nothing better to while away time on a movie set than getting out her knitting needles. Even super-cool Uma Thurman, 35, has been spotted buying balls of wool. The question is I who will be getting a tank top for Christma

Starting on August 1, Gammon Empire is going to host what is expected to be the largest ever online backgammon tournament.

This match to three points was played in 2006, as the final of small online knockout tournament with a cash prize. Part Two analyzing Game 2.