Backgammon in 3-D, it’s Happening NOW, Online
It’s cool to think that my favorite game, backgammon, was played in some form about 5,000 years ago. May it go on for another 5,000. I’m sure it will. The developments in the first five thousand years of backgammon gave no inkling of that at the end of the twentieth century, backgammon stood on the [...]
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Posted on June 19, 2010 by doclotto | Filed Under Backgammon, Culture, History, online
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Wanna Bet? A New History of Backgammon as a Betting Game
OK, we’ve done some talking about this before. About how backgammon, or some form thereof, is maybe….5,000 years old. That’s old dude. When most people think about backgammon the first thing that comes to mind today is usually exciting tournaments organized by a series of online backgammon sites. However, it seems likely that the association [...]
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Posted on May 22, 2010 by doclotto | Filed Under Backgammon, History, news
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Who Is Oswald Jacoby?
Who is he indeed? If you have been a backgammon fan for a long time, the name might ring a bell. Alternatively, if you play other games such as bridge, you would also probably recognize the name. Oswald Jacoby became best known for his association with bridge but he met undisputed success in the field [...]
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Posted on March 31, 2009 by plato | Filed Under Backgammon, Culture, History, Stories
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Who Is Bozorgmehr?
Anyone who can answer that question without reading further than this first statement should be given a backgammon geek award! Seriously, I have to admit that I didn’t even recognize the name when I first read it. So are you ready to find out who it is and why he is relevant to backgammon? Well, [...]
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Posted on February 23, 2009 by plato | Filed Under Backgammon, Culture, History
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Backgammon In The 70s
Here is a bit of information that you guys from the younger generation may not know about. Did you know that there used to be a magazine called Las Vegas Backgammon? I have to be honest and say that I did not know about this as well. After all, I was still somewhere in space, [...]
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Posted on September 1, 2008 by plato | Filed Under Backgammon, Culture, History
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