TUTORIALWhen the Game Becomes a Pure Race
No contact, no excuses — how to play a running game, when to double one, and when to pass.
Match Room · Intermediate
Opening roll · 6-5
6-5 — The Lover's Leap
Best play: 24/13
The only opening roll that moves one checker the full distance. When ahead in the race, race.
CHARACTER · RUNNING GAME · INSTANTLY PLAYABLE
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This opening roll, explained.
TUTORIALGreat matches
Played at the highest level.
2005GUS HANSEN vs THE FIELD · Champion
The gambler takes MonacoHansen 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.
Monte Carlo World Championship
Players
Who made it theirs.
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.
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