What is GammonLife?

GammonLife.com is a free backgammon website and the favourite of the international backgammon community. We're all about the real life of the game of backgammon. GammonLife publishes a wide variety of excellent content on a regular basis - in fact, look around and you will see for yourself that it is more than any other backgammon site around.

Why Are We #1?

Actually, our readers tell us we're the best. We are associated with many of the game's top tournament players, well-known columnists and a few authors of famous books, and we also travel often to live international backgammon tournaments, bringing to life the actual happenings from the world of live backgammon competition through news articles, photos, ladders, matches, and more recently, videos.

Some of our followers express their personal thanks and give us compliments when we meet them in person at live events, while others write to us by email (please see some of their comments further down on this page).

We will endeavour to keep this site free for everyone to read, and enjoy, so that you will never have to use a pesky login (now what was my password?) to read an article or be hampered in any other way from browsing this site - and also so that people who cannot afford to pay a subscription to access resources elsewhere have a place where they can learn all about the game for free, and thus, perhaps our community can flourish and grow.

How Can You Help?

Travelling to backgammon tournaments is quite costly and time-consuming; airfare, hotel, food, ground transportation and an Internet connection, are just some of the many expenses. We also pay some of the writers who provide us with articles, and we need to do regular maintenance to the site, pay for the cost of hosting, and so forth.

Here are a number of ways in which you can support this community website and help us carry on:

- Send a Monetary Contribution: PayPal is the easiest for us. Use this email address at PayPal - kathy@gammonlife.com - there is no minimum donation, just give whatever you wish, and can afford. If you do not use PayPal and would like to know about other forms of sending a donation inquire by email to editor@gammonlife.com

Special thanks to these readers who have contributed money so far.

- Play Backgammon Online: We are currently affiliated with Play65.com, the biggest backgammon server on the Internet. You can play there for fun, or get $2 free to play for real money, however, if you deposit a minimum of $25, GammonLife will earn a commission for referring you to the site.

To play at Play65, click on this link.

- Contribute Content: Write strategy articles for GammonLife, send us news from your backgammon club, association, or federation, your live match files to analyze and publish, photos, video - or any other type of content that you think would be of interest to others in the backgammon community.

Please send your content to editor@gammonlife.com

Thank you!

Best regards,

Michael Strato

Editor - GammonLife.com

Special Thanks

GammonLife thanks all the writers who have kindly contributed content to this site and to these other people who have made monetary contributions:

 - Hans-Uli Koch

 - Bernhard Schneider

 - Carol Joy Cole

 - Ed O'Laughlin

 - Jake Jacobs
 - John Clark

 - Julian Fetterlein

 - Perry Gartner

 - Rick Gerace

If you have made a donation and your name is not on the list, please inform us by writing to editor@gammonlife.com

Readers Comments

Here are some of the many compliments received from our readers:

Sondre Rike
Norway

Keep up the excellent work bringing news to the backgammon world. Looking forward to some brilliant reports from Monte Carlo!

Watch out for the Norwegian vikings!

Best wishes,

Sondre Rike

Chiva Tafazzoli
Iran

Dear Michael,

As always, tremendous job...

Chiva

Hardy Hübener
Germany

Dear Michael,

Thanks for all your work for our game of backgammon!

Best regards,

Hardy

Carol Joy Cole
USA

Thanks for all your journalistic work. I check your website frequently for the updates, wishing I could be there!

Luv,

cjc

C. Tusten Houchin
USA

Dear Michael,

Thanks for your outstanding reporting! You really do a good job of making the game come alive. Give yourself a pat on the back.

AXIOS! WORTHY!

C. Tusten Houchin hailing from the Peerless Princess of the Plains. Wichita Kansas!

Giorgio Castellano
Italy

Hello,

Congrats for the very prompt and good coverage with news and pictures of the latest Backgammon tournaments.

Thanks for your great work,

Giorgio Castellano

Yancho Hristov
Bulgaria

Congrats for the reports, you did a great job! You are number 1!

Hope to meet you soon!

Yancho

Bjorn Bos
The Netherlands

First of all let me say that I really enjoy reading GammonLife. I have waited a long time for a quality backgammon website and now there finally is one.

As a backgammon lover I am still waiting for the game to gain popularity (like poker did some years ago) and websites like GammonLife can really make a difference.

Best regards,

Bjorn