Backgammon players of all levels consider Backgammon by Paul Magriel to be the bible of the game.

Magriel earned his high stature in the game when he won the World Backgammon Championship in 1978. A year before that, he was already writing weekly columns about backgammon for The New York Times, and he continued to write these columns until 1980. Continue Reading »

If you’re a New York City lawyer, people don’t necessarily think you can write a bestseller. If you’re a movie producer and summer theater operator, people don’t expect you to be a backgammon master, too.

Bruce Becker is all of those things. Continue Reading »

If you’re new at backgammon, there’s one name that you should know just as well as tried and tested techniques in the game: Bill Robertie. Continue Reading »