
Grandmaster
Marc Olsen
- CEO, Backgammon Galaxy
- UBC 2026 Istanbul Winner
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History
The oldest race on the board, from royal tombs to neural networks.
c. 2600 BCE · Mesopotamia
Race games with pyramid dice were buried in the royal tombs of Ur. Backgammon’s family tree starts here.
1st–5th century · Rome
Roman players raced fifteen checkers across twenty-four points, just as we do today.
6th century · Persia
Legend credits the sage Bozorgmehr: the board is the earth, the dice are the turning stars.
1743 · England
Edmond Hoyle’s treatise set down the rules of backgammon we still play.
1920s · New York
One cube turned every position into a question of risk. Strategy was never the same.
1967 · Las Vegas
The best players meet to crown a champion. From 1979, Monte Carlo becomes its home.
1992 · IBM
TD-Gammon taught itself the game and found plays the experts had missed.
2019 · UBC
The Ultimate Backgammon Championship scores error rates as well as wins.
2020 · Backgammon Galaxy
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