{"id":3725,"date":"2021-02-17T13:38:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T13:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nebackgammon.org\/?page_id=3725"},"modified":"2026-03-20T12:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T12:38:15","slug":"paper","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nebackgammon.org\/index.php\/paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Backgammon in Print"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” content_placement=”middle” css=”.vc_custom_1613569623629{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-right: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;padding-left: 50px !important;background-image: url(https:\/\/nebackgammon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/bgmagazine_banner.jpg?id=3730) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1565034771081{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1565034728871{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Print media from years gone by provide a rich history of how backgammon has been played, promoted, and enjoyed over time. These materials can also reveal the biases and prejudices of their day, so they should not be viewed uncritically — nor should the attitudes of publishers in the 1930’s or 1970’s be taken to be those of the NEBC or any current backgammon organization.<\/p>\n

Clicking on the article image will take you either to a searchable PDF file that may be viewed in your web browser or downloaded to your computer or tablet for offline reading, or to the online archive provided by the copyright holder. Most popular magazine issues can also be hunted down on eBay or other online sites.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_text_separator title=”Popular Magazine Features” color=”green” border_width=”3″][vc_column_text]When\u00a0backgammon is hot, you can bet it will turn up in a variety of popular magazine titles. All of the titles in this gallery feature a substantial article on backgammon of the day.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Vogue (1929, Sept. 14)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1677615186850{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>In a two-page article commenting on the rage for backgammon and contract bridge, Frank Crowninshield provides some remarkable detail on exactly how the new invention of doubling and “Scoring by Matches” worked.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”The New Yorker (1930, Sept. 6th)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1693401191751{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>“Tric Trac, Clic Clac” is a\u00a0Talk of the Town<\/em> segment name-dropping a variety of aristocratic players including the Grand Duke Dmitri of France, crediting him with the invention of doubling in backgammon.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”The New Yorker (1930, Oct. 18)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1679339464011{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>In “Table for Two,” satirical columnist Ring Lardner turns his gimlet eye on backgammon in an amusing piece that lends detail to our sense of the game’s appeal at the time. The “randomly” selected book that he gently ridicules is The New Backgammon<\/em> by Elizabeth Clark Boyden.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Vanity Fair (1930, November)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1773315038333{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>In “The Perfect Backgammoner” Julian Jerome delivers an entertaining portrait of backgammon etiquette and satirical player “types” that was swiped and re-published under Clair Boothe Brokaw’s name in the Vanity Fair’s Book of Backgammon.<\/em>[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Harper’s Bazaar (1931, Oct.)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1680184459106{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>In “The Backgammon Boom,” expert of the day Walter L. Richard offers insights into the origins of the two great backgammon innovations credited to the jazz age: doubling and chouettes. See the Chicago Point<\/em> account of this article’s discovery<\/a>![\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Sports Illus. (1964, May 4th)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1772106916465{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>An account of Prince Obolensky’s first International Backgammon Tournament, held at the Lucayan Beach Hotel on grand Bahama Island.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Newsweek (1972, November 20th)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1758028248785{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>A brief Life and Leisure <\/em>feature\u00a0notes the new vogue for backgammon, picturing Jacoby and Hefner at play and mentioning a few of the hi-end luxury brands of board makers.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Harper’s Magazine (1972, June)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1756559296052{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>In “Polite Cruelties” Jon Bradshaw offers a highly literate and anecdotal account of backgammon’s intense appeal to gamblers, including the story of the “the Gravita Take.” Includes a consensus list of the top 15 players in the game.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Time (1973, February 19th)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1773315209803{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>This Modern Living<\/em> entry explains the growing backgammon craze with reference to Prince Alexis Obolensky’s deliberate, decade-long strategy to popularize the game: (1) Glamorize the game to create “snob appeal”; (2) Establish a system of major tournaments; (3) spread the game among the masses.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Playboy (1973, March)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1619119931992{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>Jon Bradshaw, Michael Laurence, and Tim Holland lay out the basics of the game, convey the appeal it holds for players and offer some practical playing tips. \u00a0Includes illustrations of current luxury BG equipment.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Daily Telegraph (1973, June 29)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1732450924965{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>Joe Dwek and Philip Martin are featured in this treatment of the British backgammon scene, centering on the Clermont Club. “The American game is serious, but the English game is cruel. The English needle the loser.”[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”New Yorker (1974, Jan. 14th)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1773320748340{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>Tim Holland is featured in a Talk of the Town<\/em> segment, discussing the modern appeal of backgammon. Issue also includes one of six Byford Sweater ads featuring Holland that appeared in various magazines that fall.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Fortune (1974, Mar.)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1678631812969{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>Fortune magazine reports on high finance participants in the 1974 World Championships, capturing the flavor of the game among the wealthy.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”New York Times (1974, April)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1707834488262{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>“The Backgammon Explosion” describes a swanky benefit tournament at the Plaza Hotel and a teasing glimpse of the high-stakes milieu of the private clubs.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Sports Illus. (1974, Sept.16th)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1774010277374{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A colorful account of characters and debaucheries at an exclusive 32-player Dunhill tournament held on a New York – Southampton QE2 voyage.<\/span>[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Inverrary Life (1974, Nov.)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1760466766694{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>This retirement home magazine features a cover story on Florida backgammon promoter Owen Trayner. \u00a0Appended is an obituary from the Fort Lauderdale News from 1978.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”High Times (1977, Jan.)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1619119968244{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>After some entertaining reflections on the current mania for backgammon, this article takes a deep dive into its deep history, with a focus on the numerological significances and allegorical meanings it held for ancients and moderns.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Sports Illustrated (1977, Feb. 7th)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1757185604550{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>In “A Quarter a Point isn’t Twenty-Five Cents” E. J. Kahn Jr. delivers a lightly satirical depiction of the Phillip Morris World Championship of Backgammon in Nassau, where the leading names in the 70’s game vie for eye-popping sums.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Gambling Times (1977, July)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1774010007646{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>“The Eisenberg Affair” by Roger Dionne offers a lengthy profile of World Champion Backgammon and Bridge expert Billy Eisenberg.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”New York Times (1977, Aug. 19th)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1756569215445{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"Jules Klar’s ambition of promoting a $1M tournament targeting 16,000 players hits a snag when he fails to establish a promised escrow account. And Prince Alexis Obolensky was earning 10% signing up players for the big game![\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”New Yorker (1977, Dec. 5th)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1677763272488{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>Paul Magriel bests George Plimpton . . .\u00a0blindfolded<\/em>, as Oswald Jacoby and Barclay Cooke look on.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”New Yorker (1978, Mar. 6th)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1679339780521{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>A lengthy and vividly anecdotal feature recounting the 1978 Amateur Championships in Las Vegas, won by Chico Felberbaum.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Gambling Times (1978, Aug.)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1647885300367{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>“The King of Backgammon” — A lengthy feature detailing Paul Magriel’s entrance to backgammon and subsequent flourishing in the 70’s milieu.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Sports Illus. (1979, June 4th)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1742053000077{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>An in-depth feature on Paul Magriel’s “War Against Luck, Disorder, and Chaos.”[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Gambling Times (1979, June)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1757190127130{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>A bonanza of 18 pages worth of backgammon features including a piece on backgammon’s rising popularity, as well as technical advice from Horowitz & Roman and Edward O. Thorp.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Esquire (1980, April)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1619120017168{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>“The Gospel According to X-22″ the\u00a0second feature devoted to Paul Magriel in a major publication, and explains the genesis of his famous nickname.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Scientific American (1980, June)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1619120025574{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>Cover story “Computer Backgammon” by Hans Berliner looks at the success of BKG 9.8 in deploying the principles of artificial intelligence.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”The Atlantic (1980, July)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1619120035404{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>“The Cruelest game” provides a description of backgammon’s history and current level of popularity, as well as an anecdotal encounter across the board from Paul Magriel.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”New York (1982, July 26th)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1757188046032{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>“Bobby Le Flambeur” follows the backgammon action of a few pseudonymous hustlers at the Mayfair Club. Heavy on the cliches, and light on any interesting details, but typical of backgammon’s image at the time.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Lear’s (1989, May.)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1647701193655{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>In “Gamine of Backgammon” Annabel Davis-Goff provides an entertaining account of what it was like playing with the bigs at the Monte Carlo championships.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Fame (1990, Nov.)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1757189127109{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>“Slaves of Monte Carlo” is a four-page account of the 1990 World Championships with an emphasis on name-checking the fabulously wealthy attendees and bemoaning the “math clubbers” who have descended upon the scene.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Cigar Aficionado (1999, Feb.)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1773345327466{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>A breathless profile of “Simon Jones,” a notorious “Backgammon Hustler” who travels the world winning vast sums against various fawning victims. A bit much.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”New Yorker (2013, May 13)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1693400307850{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>“The Chaos of the Dice” devotes six full pages to Falafel (Matvey Natanzon) in a colorful portrait of the great player.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Esquire (2019, Apr.)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1619120073621{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>Writer Dwight Garner enjoys a work-out against Victor Ashkenazi before heading to Monte Carlo and back again. A vivd snapshot of the modern state of the game.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”New York Times (2020, Mar. 3rd)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1693404454430{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>The New York Times<\/em> devotes appropriate space to the passing of the great Matvey “Falafel” Natanzon.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1565034771081{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1565034728871{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_text_separator title=”Las Vegas Backgammon Magazine” color=”green” border_width=”3″][vc_column_text]Las Vegas Backgammon<\/em>\u00a0publication was a deluxe magazine running from approximately 1978 – 1982, published by las Vegas club president Michael Maxakuli. \u00a0These issues, provided by Candace Mayeron for scanning, offer a trove of backgammon articles, images, and ads that capture the glamor and avarice of backgammon during the peak of the game’s popularity in the United States, as well as the evolution of tournament practices and game strategy in that period.\u00a0Another thing they capture: the casual sexism of their day. Women featured on the covers serve mostly as “eye candy” (note that few of them are even\u00a0pretending\u00a0<\/em>to play\u00a0backgammon) — and some viewers may find some images inappropriately revealing.<\/p>\n

The Las Vegas<\/em> magazine employed an almost comically inconsistent numbering system, but was published on a roughly quarterly basis despite purporting to be a “bi-monthly.” Estimated dates are placed in [brackets]. If you would be willing to contribute scans of earlier Las Vegas newsletter\/magazines, or later ones, please contact us<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Las Vegas BG (1978, March)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1619119267048{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>An editorial addresses legal challenges to backgammon tournaments; Dave Thompson reviews the troubled $1,000,000 World Amateur Backgammon Championship; Paul Magriel gets one wrong in a NYT column.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Las Vegas BG (1978, June)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1619119294523{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>A scathing review of a 60 Minutes<\/em> backgammon segment; Bob Ciaffone achieves change in Michigan ‘dice’ laws; copious pictures of local club players; Official Las Vegas Tournament Rules.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Las Vegas BG (1978, `{`Sept.`}`)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1619119306764{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>London & Monte Carlo; Backgammon’s Blacklist Book; Backgammon Glossary; Dunes Hotel plans 2nd Plimpton Cup; California Open disappoints; Backgammon Zodiac.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Las Vegas BG (1978, `{`Dec.`}`)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1619119318442{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>Missing Man Rule; Too Cool for the Club; Norman Hunter Profile; Chicago Cup review; \u00a0 Mexico-Las Vegas tournament; Sonne BG catalogue; Club logos; Backgammon Types.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Las Vegas BG (1979, Feb.)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1619123686274{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>Club Directors get no Love; ABC Title Winner; Hamilton Squash Club BG Ladder; Calgary “Gammon on Ten.”[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Las Vegas BG (1979, June)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1619119345384{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>BG Needs patrons; Park 65 BG Club, NY; NBA Backgammon; Bill Davis on Local Clubs; Boston BSO Benefit; NEBC at 3 Years; Robert Perry profile; Settlement factors; Lewd BG.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Las Vegas BG (1979, Sept.)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1619119372711{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>Monte Carlo; ‘Pipsqueakers’ Cartoons from Portland; Duo-Gammon; Jim Howe Profile; Kent Goulding match; Owen Trayner Memorial; Flint Club.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Las Vegas BG (1979, Dec.)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1619119410545{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>Swiss System; BG Needs a Hero; Jacoby on 6- Openings; Kate Watson, Louise Goldsmith Profiles; Puerto Rico ’79; Woolsey on Too Good; Chicago B&W; BG by Fax.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Las Vegas BG (1980, March)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1619119426722{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>A National BG Organization?; Bill Boyd Profile; BG Machines; Woolsey on Doubling; Marrakesh; More on Swiss; Barr on Calcuttas.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Las Vegas BG (1980, June)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1619119439751{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>Regional Tournaments; Paul Magriel Profile; BG Publications; Cooke on Cubes; Amateur Status; Glamor in Reno; Robertie Master Points; Ultimate Draw Sheet.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Las Vegas BG (1980, Oct.)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1619119450837{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>Backgammon legal defense; Monte Carlo Results;[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Las Vegas BG (1980, Dec.)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1619119460564{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>Leslie Stone, Todd Vander Pluym Profiles; Robertie Cube Quiz; Mayeron Rulings; Cooke on Computers; Woolsey Quiz; Michigan Movement Brackets; Chicago Classic; Modified Swiss.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Las Vegas BG (1981, March)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1619119476382{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>Markowitz, Caverlys Profiles; 5th Plimpton Cup program; Beaver Theory; Miss Lonelyblots; Robertie Wins @ Dunes; Income taxes on Wins; Ward on Recording BG positions; More Michigan Movement; American Giant 32 List.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Las Vegas BG (1981, June)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1619119489926{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>Expert Panel; Grind Tournaments; Craig Tyndall Profile; BG in Japan; Kit Woolsey Match; BG Bibliography; Electronic Backgammon; Robertie Checker Quiz; US World Team; CJC Featured; Double Elim; Bruce Zembe.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Las Vegas BG (1981, Sept.)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1619119502505{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>Orrill Martin debacle; Tournament Chouette Rules; Joli Kansil Interview; Maffeo on Chouettes; Ausley’s Laws; Symmetric Doubles; Double-Beaver; Team Tournaments; Boston Black & White; Woolsey Quiz; Record-keeping.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Las Vegas BG (1981, Dec.)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1619119530410{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>Precision Dice; Muhammad Ali; Gammon-Save Quiz; Chouette Settlements; Oswald Jacoby Profile; NEBC; Lee Genud Wins; Gaby’s Commandments; Match Play Cube Strategy; Kleinman Report on Plimpton Cup; Jacoby on BG History; Woolsey on Pay Now\/Later; Friar’s Tale (1734).[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Las Vegas BG (1982, Apr.)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1619728098592{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>Oregon vs. Barr legal case; Woolsey on Crawford plays. This scan is incomplete, including just 12 of 40+ original pages.<\/em>[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_text_separator title=”GAMMON Magazine” color=”green” border_width=”3″][vc_column_text]This ambitious but short-lived “national” backgammon magazine was published by Buddy Berke and edited by Sidney Jackson. A paucity of national-brand advertising may have made it difficult to sustain its high production values and cost. Its substance and style is very close to the Las Vegas magazines, including the exploitive cover imagery.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_toggle title=”GAMMON (1979, Preview Issue)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1684320326500{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>The magazine promises a lot in this promotional flyer — including “unlimited access” to a toll-free backgammon hotline![\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_toggle title=”GAMMON (1979, Preview Issue)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1684320283636{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>Alfred Sheinwold on Organizing BG; Hugh Hefner Celebrity Profile; American Women BG profile; Cube as a Weapon; Tournament Reports (Acapulco, Pebble Beach, Lucille Ball, Chicago, San Francisco); Club profiles on Pacific Northwest, Turnberry Isle, Mayfair, Cavendish West; “The Man in The Box” Pt.1; PIPS Club; Thorp on Endgames.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_toggle title=”GAMMON (1980, Winter)” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1619119576036{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>Ezra Tissona Celebrity Feature; Monte Carlo 1979 in detail; Intermediate Cubes; “The Man in the Box” Pt.2; Robertie Analysis of 1979 WC match; Biorhythms; Skill Levels (Horowitz & Roman); Black & White Chicago Classic; 1979 World Amateur Championships; Duo-Gammon; Various Club results.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_text_separator title=”Tournament Brochures” color=”green” border_width=”3″][vc_column_text]The PDF files in this section contain brochures \/ flyers for various backgammon events in the 1970’s-80s, loosely grouped into batches according to geography or event. \u00a0Most were generously provided by avid Los Angeles player\u00a0Candace Mayeron for scanning. \u00a0If you have additional pre-1990 materials you’d be willing to contribute, \u00a0please contact us<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Amateur Championships” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1617285330189{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>The Amateur Backgammon Championship, also known as the Plimpton Cup, was open to “non-professional” players who had not won a tournament prize greater than $1000, nor “made a living” playing backgammon. This file includes events held from 1977 to 1985.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”World Championships” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1618401634350{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>Before settling down in Monte Carlo in 1979, World Championship events were held in Las Vegas and Paradise island. For a detailed account, see this article in Bill Robertie’s Gammon Press blog<\/a>.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Black & White Events” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1617284045734{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>Black & White Scotch was a major sponsor of events, promoting their whiskey with backgammon-themed ads in major magazines and providing branded playing equipment and prize money for several years of events often directed by Lewis Deyong.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Las Vegas, Nevada” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1617285604910{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>A variety of flyers for national and local events held in Nevada, including the Grand National and US Open, as well as the Reno El Dorado Classic.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Los Angeles, California” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1617285963808{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>A wide selection of flyers for local California tournaments, mostly in and around Los Angeles, including a nice memento of a Lucille Ball event at Pips.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”Caribbean Getaways” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1617286293951{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>A variety of tournament cruises, beachfront events, and North American BG Championships.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”North American Events” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1617286466135{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>A mixed bag of brochures from locations in the US and Canada, such as Chicago, Boston, Ohio, as well as the handy ‘Backgammon is Everywhere!’ national schedule.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_toggle title=”European Events” open=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1617286596570{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”]\"\"<\/a>A small sample of European tournaments drawing the interest of international competitors.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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