From the board

Understand the game. Work on your strategy. And see why luck and connection are at the heart of it.

5 Backgammon Mistakes Beginners Make

Here are five common backgammon mistakes and what to do instead.

Why you do not need an hour to play backgammon

How long a game actually takes, and why the answer stops mattering once you can put it down.

Tavla, Tavli, Nard: How Backgammon Became a Global Game

Discover how backgammon evolved and became a game for cafés, tea houses, families and friends around the world.

How to stay connected in a long-distance relationship

Sharing the ordinary moments when you cannot share the room, and the small rituals that survive a time difference.

Why you should play more games with your parents

A game gives you something to do together, and a reason to get in touch that needs no reason.

You can just show up

Staying in touch without having to be interesting, entertaining or free at the same time as anybody else.

What backgammon can teach you about patience

Rolls you can't hurry, positions that take a few turns to build, and a friend's move worth waiting for.

Grown-ups still play. We just call it something else.

Crosswords, pub quizzes, a card game at Christmas: we never stopped playing, we just stopped calling it that.

Checkers, backgammon or chess: which one suits you?

Three classic board games, three kinds of thinking, and only one of them lets the dice have a say.

What's the best first move in backgammon?

Only 15 rolls can start a game. Here's the one every strong player plays the same way, and what to do with the rest.

Looking for the rules instead? How to play backgammon teaches the whole game from the beginning.