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11-23-2008 , 06:43 AM

Lori

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I thought you were joking...

http://www.freep.com/article/2008111...90/1009/NEWS07

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MOSCOW — A 35-year-old Muscovite has admitted to murdering a visitor to his flat who agreed to stake his life on a game of backgammon, Russian news media have reported.

Sergei Smirnitsky was arrested in south Moscow on murder charges after reportedly knocking on his neighbor’s door to ask him to help drag a corpse from his eighth-floor flat to the street. The shocked neighbor called police instead.

The story began when Smirnitsky and his victim-to-be, 23-year-old Vasily Lobozov, agreed to share a taxi. During the ride, Smirnitsky invited his new acquaintance to come to his flat, and Lobozov agreed.

Upon their arrival, Lobozov noticed and remarked upon a backgammon set sitting on the shelf.

“I made that in the labor camp,” said Smirnitsky, who had earlier served time for robbery. “It took me years.”

“Shall we play a game?” his guest replied.

Smirnitsky, who was reportedly in a dark mood following the recent death of his brother, then informed his guest that, “With that backgammon set you can only play for dough.”

When Lobozov replied that he had no money, his host answered: “Then stake your life.”

Lobozov, who presumably didn’t take the proposal seriously, agreed, and the two men sat down to play. Fifteen minutes later, after Smirnitsky had beaten his young opponent, he went into the kitchen, chose a knife, and plunged it five times into Lobozov’s neck.

“We agreed that he who lost would die,” Smirnitsky told an investigator in a recorded interview posted on the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper’s Web site, adding: “He lost.”

Lori

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11-23-2008 , 06:58 AM

ZachShalack420

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lol RussianRouletteBackgammonaments

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08-13-2019 , 08:35 PM

rakemeplz

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sick beat

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08-13-2019 , 08:44 PM

Colin_Piddle

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Not sure how this didn't get more replies back in 2008. I guess there must have been a NVG thread.

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08-13-2019 , 09:14 PM

H0RUS

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Only 1 reply when the thread was created in 2008

Lol russia

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08-13-2019 , 09:23 PM

bluto

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Russian Backgammon is over. All players dead

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08-16-2019 , 01:27 PM

Slam254

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Didn't know there was a "5" on the doubling cube

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08-18-2019 , 01:08 AM

rakemeplz

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Backgammon actually does seem like a game only to be played in Russia and to the death. I think the law/society got this one wrong in this spot.

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08-18-2019 , 10:07 AM

bluto

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Backgammon is one of the oldest games in existence. I wonder how many players have died as a result of it over the millennia.

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08-18-2019 , 02:35 PM

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RacerExTex

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Originally Posted by bluto

Backgammon is one of the oldest games in existence. I wonder how many players have died as a result of it over the millennia.

Maybe they can merge this thread with the one on OOT:

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/3...-earth-445267/

Then we can speculate how many people/whales have been killed by backgammon/lightning in the history of Russia/the earth!

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08-18-2019 , 09:19 PM

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DwayneB

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Ok so note to self. Never go to Russia and play Backgammon or any thing and make the comment i bet my life on it. They seem to take it serious.

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