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There hasn't been an awful lot, but here are some highlights:

The most recent article of general interest was a piece by Troy Patterson in Bloomberg, Dec. 9, 2016. It covered a few bases and spotlighted Victor Ashkenazi, a trader at Goldman Sachs, as the best American player at that time.

A recent novel by Jonathan Lethem, Gambler's Anatomy, had a backgammon subplot.

The New York Times ran an obituary of Paul Magriel on March 9, 2018 which was generally accurate. Paul had been their backgammon columnist for four years, 1977-1981, and produced over 100 good columns.

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08-26-2020 , 07:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Taper_Mike

Thanks for the links! Both made for good reading.

Here are the direct links to the same articles.

Everyone For Backgammon
Sports Illustrated, 1964-May-04
A crowd of socialites and their friends gather on a resort island to play the game they love best

A Gamesman's War Against Luck, Disorder And Surface Chaos
Sports Illustrated, 1979-Jun-04
Paul Magriel is a mathematician and backgammon champion of the world. His enemy is the dice, which obscure the intricate and beautiful patterns of his game

Here is a link to Wikipedia explaining why it does not accept shortened URL's such as those from goo . gl. Evidently, TwoPlusTwo has reached some of the same conclusions.

Mike

The 2nd link doesn't seem to work anymore.