Word: backgammoner
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...civilization itself. It was once the pastime of Roman emperors, the "game of kings and the king of games." An upper-crusty Englishman observed that "it has ever been a game for the higher classes and has never been vulgarized or defiled by uneducated people." The elegant diversion is backgammon-and although it has long been enjoyed by an elite few in the private clubs and fashionable resorts of Europe, in the U.S. it lay face down in obscurity on the backside of a checkerboard. Until recently, that...
...rooms of Europe to the casinos of Las Vegas and the crowded parties in Hugh Hefner's Los Angeles mansion. Hefner and his friend Barbi, Bridge Star Oswald Jacoby, Ari and Christina Onassis, Prince Radziwill, Polly Bergen and Jill St. John have all discovered the social charms of backgammon: it is easy to learn, fast and exciting to play, and an enjoyable way to win, or lose, a lot of money...
...Backgammon has been played for years at clubs, but it's a new thing for people around here." Foster said. "We'd like to see who in Boston is playing...
...club had been the site of informal backgammon games on Thursday nights for the past four or five months. The game, similar in to parchesi involves the rolling of dies to more men to strategic positions on a board...
Prince Alexis Obolinsky of New York City, reputed to be one of the world's best backgammon players will attend the match according tournament director Herbert Foster. Other participants will determine it Obolinsky will be allowed to play, he said yesterday...