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Second Backgammon Quiz Winner and 3rd Quiz

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

Play65 backgammon quiz begins its third week. Dozens of players gave the right answer on last week’s question, but only one of them - Lampashu of Romania – knew that when you have two checkers on the bar and there are three points open in your opponent’s home board, you have only 9/36 possible rolls to get both checkers in with. Lampashu got an immediate $20 bonus, plus his name might be drawn at the $200 quarterly draw. 

For Play65 3rd backgammon quiz all you need is a short term memory (or a handy internet search engine): who won the Doubles Consulting World Backgammon Championship in Switzerland 2000 together with Paul Magriel (the legendary backgammon player and the author of the classic backgammon book known as the "bible of backgammon")? Hint: it was a female player. So if you think you know the answer, simply check it, enter your username and email address and click on submit. If you won the $20 bonus, you will be notified by next Sunday, when the 4th backgammon quiz will be up.

 

Backgammon Board Made of Recycled Glass

Monday, November 19th, 2007

The standard backgammon board is made of wood, but if you are interested in something less typical, check out this unique set of backgammon board and checkers: The Californian product designer Sol Mesz has made an entire backgammon set from clear recycled glass. The fragile backgammon set includes a backgammon board and checkers. The checkers are composed of recycled windows (including remains of the windshields) looks more like glass beads. You’ll have to watch out with those aggressive dice rolls when you are playing on this board! For more details on the recycled glass backgammon set, check out Tree Hugger website.

Italian Wins Play65 “Italy” Tournament

Monday, November 5th, 2007

Giuseppe Ricciardi, aka Gandalf, is the newest winner in Play65 “Italy” tournament. Gandalf will be playing at the 19th City of Venice International Backgammon Tournament against some of the best backgammon players in the world including three members of Play65 backgammon community.

Mr. Ricciardi will arrive to this achievement after winning the special backgammon tournament that took place last Saturday. The last tournament in this series, and your last chance to fly to Italy on Play65 expense and get the once in a lifetime chance to compete against pro backgammon players and win larger cash prizes, will take place this Saturday, November 10th. I wouldn’t miss it If I were you!

Backgammon Blogs

Sunday, November 4th, 2007

Recently so much has happened in Play65 (new community feature, huge tournaments, revolutionary football teams and so much more…), that we almost forgot to keep you posted on the latest happenings outside our tiny 3M members online backgammon room. Therefore, this festive post will be dedicated to our colleagues, top backgammon and online gaming bloggers.

Blot Blog analyzes a different position in backgammon almost every week for over year and a half. Currently, there are almost 150 illustrated positions on top of a short backgammon glossary, and dozens of posts on almost every aspect in backgammon including cube decisions, checker play and so on. Backgammon beginners might get lost inside Blot Blog but intermediate to advanced player will probably find it useful. At least I do. The blog is also available in German.

Winning Backgammon is more suitable for backgammon beginners. It includes a crash course in playing online backgammon, plus an extensive introduction to backgammon rules and backgammon notation. Winning backgammon also covers backgammon variants such as Nackgammon and Hypergammon. I hope to write about them too someday.

Real Reviews is, surprisingly, not a review blog, at least not real reviews. Instead, real reviews provides the latest online gaming news with emphasizes on online backgammon.

Enter the Dragon is not all about backgammon; internet backgammon is one of the topics brought up in this blog among Auckland Hotels, Jewish dating, and tummy tucks. So, if you always wanted to find the best backgammon software and the most effective hair loss remedy in one resource, who am I to stop you?

I’ll end this review with a very new backgammon blog Backgammon Gambling, which on its first post offers online backgammon players an opportunity to win a trip to Australia…

Play65 Imitators

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

If you’ve googled “play65″ recently, you must have noticed the large number of play65 imitators: play65-download, play65-tournaments, play-online-65, play56 and many more domain names that shamelessly evoke one well known backgammon website.

Who are Play65 Imitators?

The main reason for play65 imitators widespread is play65 affiliate program, known as play65 partners, which allows website owners to earn money from promoting play65 online backgammon room around the web.

Play65 Affiliate Program

Play65 affiliate program is very simple: the website owner who promotes play65 backgammon room on his/her website earns a certaing percentage for every real-money player he/she sends to play65. Additionally, play65 affiliates can earn money by sending sub-affiliates to promote play65 on their website. 

Due to play65 backgammon room popularity, play65 affiliates wanted to make more money by dedicating their websites to their source of income. The result is, as you can see on your any of your favorite interent search engine is lots of play65 imitators…

Play65 Blogging!

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

Hello to Everyone!

This “Play65 Blog” is the official blog of Play65 backgammon site.
Hopefully, in time, it will be your first resource for anything related to Play65 backgammon platform, including Play65 tournaments, gaming rules, special offers, backgammon bonuses and anything else you can think of.

Please feel free to send us comments on anything that comes to your mind.
Play65 team is here for you!