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 tension of whether backgammon is a game focused on high stakes or on skill and a community of players. In the UK the gaming laws  restrict what we can do when it comes to stakes anyway, but even if that was not the case, BGiE stands firmly on the side of perfecting skill and the development of a community of players, rather than purely offering a...

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 boards that have been on show at club nights recently and so to continue that theme, here's Gavin's really lovely new roll-up board from Alan Masters . Tom unfortunately showed no deference to the newness or beauty of the board, beating Gavin and winning this week's £20 Swiss. Congratulations to him and to Yas and Henry who won the other two Swiss...