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Backgammon High Times and High Life

by Jake Jacobs
10 August 2007

Jake Jacobs

Backgammon's World Championship - If those words don't evoke an image of wealth and elegance there is a gap in your backgammon education!

The jet setters may have flown away, and there aren't many tournaments that still require coats and ties, but the World Championship in Monaco is special: a link to backgammon's golden past.

I have enough material to devote the next few months to the tournament.

This month I'll describe the ambience of Monaco.

Click your heels, Dorothy, you are about to find out you aren't in Kansas anymore!

England's John Clark and Canada's Jinelle Girard
prove there is still elegance in backgammon

Christina, DT, Simonetta, and some other lug

The closest airport to Monaco is in Nice, France. I had been warned that there were two taxi routes to Monaco: one where the cabbies whipped around hairpin turns at high speed just a few hundred feet's plunge above the Mediterranean; the other a fairly straight highway where they pretended they were on the Autobahn. But the Beautiful People (attend the World Championship and you are automatically enrolled) don't use anything as plebian as a taxi

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