You are back from your summer vacation, you worn out your travel backgammon board, but the summer is not over yet. You still have time to prepare a large scale, lawn backgammon board and suitable backgammon checkers. Here’s the how to, based on The Oregonian instructions on how to make a lawn checkers board:

For the backgammon board, you will need is 4 pieces of 36 inches (92 cm) square felt in homogenous color and 24 pieces of felt in two contrasting colors cut into triangles 32 inches (82 cm) long with 3 inches (8 cm) wide basis, thread in matching colors and a sewing needle or a sewing machine. And for the checkers, you will need 5 x 2 pieces of Fun Foam sized 12 x 18 inch (30 x 45 cm) in two different colors.

The making of the backgammon board is pretty simple if you are practiced in the craft of attaching pieces of fabric together. First, combine the four large squares to create a big surface. Then place the alternate colored triangles according to the backgammon board pattern and attach them to the surface by making a few stitches at the triangle’s head and basis.

To make the checkers use a round facility such as a saucer or bowl about 6.5 inches (16.5 cm) in diameter to outline a checker, then cut it out. You can make 3 checkers of every Fun Foam piece, and eventually you will have 15 checkers of each color.

Making a large sized precision dice is more complicated, but not as complicated as carving life sized chess pieces:

If you have managed to create an outdoor backgammon board, please send us your photos!

Play65 is refreshing again its backgammon tournaments by adding new ones and changing the terms and conditions in the current tournaments:

The €2000 and €3000 tournaments, scheduled for the next couple of Saturdays (8 PM GMT) will be held with no rake. Entry fees to these tournaments are €20 and €30 correspondingly; free entry is offered as first prize in the daily satellite tournaments.

Play65 has also added three €500 tournaments a month, with €6 entry fees and no more than 8 winners; and one monthly €1,000 event, where 16 players who will pay the €11 entry fees will be able to share the grand prize.

Dane backgammon pro Steen Grønbech, who led the Play65 Team in several backgammon tournaments in the last couple of years, is currently on the top of the WSOB Race, preceded only by WSOB Cannes 2009 champion, Salamzy Najibullah, and followed by backgammon giants such as Falafel Natanzon (fourth place), Sander Lylloff (fifth), and even the new world backgammon champion, Masayuki Mochizuki (nineteenth).

Steen Grønbech, who finished third at the World Series of Backgammon Cannes Championship and championed the Second Chance competition, still has a gap of 22 points separating him from the top spot and the adjunct WSOB Gold Cube, a gap that can be closed or at least minimized at the next World Series of Backgammon event, WSOB Prague, scheduled to begin on September 16th.

About Play65 Team

Play65 Team is a group of four leading backgammon players of Denmark, who represent the backgammon website in several events, most recently at the Play65 21st Nordic Open in Denmark. Last year, the group has made Play65 very proud by winning the WSOB 20th Nordic Open Team Event.