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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. We humans have been playing backgammon in some form for five millennia. It has been unearthed by archaeologists ...

Alexandra Llewellyn customizes game boards with cows, flowers and anything else you might fancy. By Felicia Craddock Reporting from London On a recent fall afternoon in her sunny studio in London’s ...

Stan Herman, a Westside real estate broker who with Hugh Hefner founded the Pips Club, featuring their favorite board game, backgammon, has died. He was 67. Herman, who established Stan Herman & ...

Iran’s embassy in India invoked the shared history of chess and backgammon to underscore 2,000 years of cultural ties, ...