Our Merry Players Our final night of the year attracted a healthy crowd of 28 - clearly the lure of the Rose & Crown's mince pies was too much to resist. Congratulations to Zigi, Lawrence, Rob, and Geoff, who all won their respective groups. It's been a brilliant year for the club, and we look forward to an even better 2026. The Ealing Cup 2026 begins in January; we're planning more tournaments (perhaps including a Doubles tournament); and working on some training weekends t

Congratulations Can! This year's winner of the Ealing Cup is Can Cag, pictured receiving his trophy on Monday this week. He also won...

The balancing act In the news here in Ealing this week and, quite by chance, all across the backgammon world as well, is the ever-present...

Tom (right) on his way to winning his Swiss on Monday on Gavin's new summer colours board In last week's blog I featured a couple of new...

Shino and Phillip before the final of the July Invitational, both played Magriel back in the day. Revamped invitational knockout now 1st...

Have you ever seen someone's nickname on Galaxy, Heroes or Hub and thought that's a smart name - wish I'd thought of that? Personally,...

or is it a plethora...? We've been running our weekly 'Study Corner' for two years now, and in that time we've amassed quite a collection...

The fat lady singing and counting Mrs Malaprop is rightly famous for being the pineapple of using a wrong word with a sound resembling...

Picture the scene - a man with his face supernaturally lit, a mother and child looking on reverentially, as he ritually cleans a sacred...

Time flies and the seasons change. This Monday saw the first club night match played outdoors in 2025. I can confirm that Gulcin and...

The BGiE team in York last year - we got knocked out in the quarter finals It's 4 months until the UK Clubs Championship takes place in...

Stephen Booth wins the first of our new trophies Over the past 5 days we've run the Spring Tournament, a regular Monday club night and...

The BGiE trophies up for grabs in 2025 Trophy - from the Greek tropē, meaning a rout. A memorial you put up of something left behind by...

The home of Backgammon in Ealing Recent blogs on what makes a great club member and the brilliant crew behind the scenes that make it...

AI really has no clue what backgammon or great look like... Following on from last week's blog about there being no secret to why BGiE...

The BGiE crew that make it all happen As a tournament director, it's never easy to predict how many players are going to turn out for a...

If you've not been recently, why not do like Andre, Florin and Dan who've made it their new year's resolution to play more backgammon at...

Yas implores Merzad to get on with her Ealing Cup first round match. The deadline is Valentine's Day, which is next Friday for the...

Would it be Gavin, who topped the Ealing ladder in 2024, or Tom the reigning Ealing Annual Tournament champion? There was a definite buzz...

Ilias, Graham, Neculai, Martin, Larry, Mike, Michael, Max, Roubina, Emin, Alec, Cihan, Gavin, Andy (*well, the Greenwich Mean Timers at...