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 ...

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. One could argue that backgammon, a board game with roots going back to ...

Backgammon is a game that should perhaps have a greater level of popularity, given the fact that it has been available to play for centuries. The classic game is thought to have been around for around ...

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 ...

Mick Jagger in Barbados with Jerry Hall, just prior to his fortieth birthday. Walking through the lobby of the Fairmont hotel in Monaco, home to the Backgammon World Championship, is like striding ...

In order to meet Falafel, the highest ranked backgammon player in the world, I took a Greyhound bus to Atlantic City, and then hopped a jitney to the Borgata Hotel. Falafel’s real name is Matvey ...

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 ...

I don’t know about you, but I’m a big board game fan. But few board games are as innately aesthetically pleasing as backgammon; chess is a close second. So it’s perhaps not so surprising that many ...