Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Jonathan Adler’s backgammon sets are all delightful, but the ones that ...

An ancient board game that combines luck and skill is making a large comeback in the state of Iowa! Brad Burtnette of Iowa Backgammon shares information about “social backgammon.” You can learn more ...

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 ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. One could argue that backgammon, a board game with roots going back to ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. Backgammon has been around for thousands of years — Wikipedia clocks it at around 5,000 — and it is ...

In order to meet Falafel, the highest ranked backgammon player in the world, I took a Greyhound bus to Atlantic City, and then hopped a jitney to the Borgata Hotel. Falafel’s real name is Matvey ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marc Olsen is one of just over 100 backgammon grandmasters worldwide Marc Olsen was just 18 when he started winning money at ...

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 ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. We humans have been playing backgammon in some form for five millennia. It has been unearthed by archaeologists ...