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The Doubling Cube, Taught From First Principles

Why you double, when you double, and the match-score math that changes everything — the cube lesson most players never got.

The Cube Room · Intermediate

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Nack Ballard

1950– · Relentless aggression

A dominant force of the 1980s with a ferocious doubling cube, and the inventor of the Nackgammon variant played worldwide.

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2005

GUS HANSEN vs THE FIELD · Champion

The gambler takes Monaco

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.

Monte Carlo World Championship

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The Doubling Cube

The invention that turned backgammon into a thinking market.

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