It’s a rarity to be able to walk into a room as a relative newbie and beat a world champion in their respective sport. But therein lies the playful cruelty of backgrammon: anybody is welcome, and on ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. Backgammon has been around for thousands of years — Wikipedia clocks it at around 5,000 — and it is ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Jonathan Adler’s backgammon sets are all delightful, but the ones that ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. We humans have been playing backgammon in some form for five millennia. It has been unearthed by archaeologists ...

You don’t see too many backgammon games for consoles, but then that’s part of what makes the Xbox 360’s Xbox Live Arcade service so interesting. Since there’s no packaging to deal with, and no retail ...