DOCUMENTARYMonte Carlo: The Room Where It Happens
Fifty years of the world championship at the Sporting Club — the legends, the chouettes and the biggest cubes ever turned.
Parlor Films · All levels
Monte Carlo World Championship · 2005
The gambler takes Monaco
GUS HANSEN — THE FIELD · Champion
Hansen brought poker aggression to the doubling cube and ran through the most glamorous draw in the game, playing a loose, fearless style purists said couldn't survive. It won.
The moment
The lover's-leap running game he turned into a gammon with a double nobody offered.
THE POSITION
Study the decision point — then take it into the Position Lab and argue with it.
OPEN IN POSITION LABWatch analysis
Someone has already explained this.
DOCUMENTARYConnected
Where this match leads.
6-56-5 — The Lover's Leap
24/13
The only opening roll that moves one checker the full distance. When ahead in the race, race.
DENMARKGus Hansen
1974– · Fearless aggression
World-class in two games. Brought poker courage to the backgammon cube and won where purists said his style couldn't survive.