GAMMON’DTHE WORLD OF BACKGAMMON
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Nordic Open

Starts Thursday · Copenhagen

The friendliest major on the calendar — café backgammon at world-class level.

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Merit Open, Montenegro

Concluded · Budva

Decided in the final by a Crawford-game gammon at double match point.

  • Champion11–9
  • Runner-up9–11
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ALL PLAYERS
A backgammon café doorway spilling warm light onto a cobbled street at nightUNITED STATES
Bill Robertie

1952– · Technical precision

Two-time world champion and author of the Modern Backgammon series — the clearest technical writer the game has produced.

GAMES
A backgammon café doorway spilling warm light onto a cobbled street at nightJAPAN
Masayuki “Mochy” Mochizuki

1979– · Error-rate discipline

World champion and leader of Japan's modern school — meticulous preparation, ruthless self-review and the lowest error rates ever recorded.

GAMES
Two players' hands over a backgammon board mid-match in a dark club roomDENMARK
Gus 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.

GAMES
A dark green club-room wall of framed vintage backgammon photographsUNITED STATES
Jake Jacobs

1955– · Probability made vivid

Champion, author and the game's great storyteller-analyst — explains complex positions with a mathematician's rigor and a raconteur's timing.

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WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

Quarterfinals set in Monte Carlo

Four matches to 25 points decide who plays for the title. The room is full, the side events are running, and every cube decision is being argued at the bar.

ON THIS DAY

The Crawford rule turns 46

John Crawford's simple fix — no doubling for one game at match point — is the most elegant rule change in the game's history. Here's why it works.

PARLOR CULTURE

The weekly chouette is back

From New York to Istanbul, the Friday chouette — one player in the box, a table of partners, one very loud doubling cube — is drawing new players again.

ANALYSIS

Thirty years of the neural-net revolution

Since TD-Gammon taught itself to play in 1991, computers keep overturning what the books taught. The positions we got wrong for decades are the most instructive.

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