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This match to three points was played in 2006, as the final of small online knockout tournament with a cash prize. The standard of play was high.

With two dice rolled each turn, there are a total of 36 possible rolls, only six of which are doubles. So the chance of rolling 66 is 1/36, but the chance of rolling 62 is 1/18 (because there is 62 and 26).

Backgammon is one of the oldest games in the world, the origins of which date back some 5000 years. So if you are new to backgammon you have a lot of catching up to do.

The game starts with each side having only one inner board point made and the ace-point anchor. So "normal" opening strategy is to try to make new blocking and home board points in the hope of trapping the opponent's back men behind a prime and

GIBRALTAR, January 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- - Maertens Wins Richest Prize Ever at PartyGammon.com Million - Germany and Denmark are Skill Game's Superpowers 33-year-old German Andreas Maertens is celebrating after winning the inaugural PartyGammon.com

IF YOU are a reasonable chess player and want to pit your wits against a machine, rather than another human being, to help you improve your game, then you have no problem. You can buy a sophisticated set with a touch-sensitive board, a hand-held portable

LONDON, May 2 /PRNewswire/ -- httpwww.BackgammonMasters.com has just released another installment in the ongoing animated series Life According to Jean-Claude . Featuring the witty comments of Jean-Claude the animated tiger, the series is a humorous outta

MONTREAL, QC, Aug 23, 2001 GOTO Software is proud to launch its newest game GOTO Backgammon, the world's most sophisticated backgammon game. GOTO Backgammon will make your gaming experience more enjoyable with more features, stronger opponents, and beauti

The largest online backgammon room, Play65 (httpwww.play65.com) has announced collaboration with the biggest international backgammon association, the World Backgammon Association (httpwww.world-backgammon-association.com/) for the 2011 season of the Euro

MIAMI - Tim Holland, a world backgammon champion who was one of the most prominent competitors in the game's modern heyday, has died. He was 79. Holland died Wednesday of emphysema at his West Palm Beach home, said his daughter, Vanessa Holland, of San Di

Tim Holland, a world backgammon champion who was one of the most prominent competitors in the game's modern heyday, has died. He was 79. Holland died Wednesday of emphysema at his West Palm Beach home, said his daughter, Vanessa Holland, of San Diego. Bac

DAMASCUS, Syria A blue haze fills the Rawda cafe and is constantly replenished by elderly men puffing on the narghile, an elaborate water pipe that begins with a rubber hose and ends at a thumbnail-size ember of tobacco. Waiters in dirty gray aprons move

Ernest hemingway once wrote that the rich were dull and they drank too much, or they played too much backgammon. But among the 500 or so of the game's aficionados who descended on Monte Carlo last July, few, if any, remembered the writer's words, and thos