Walter Trice - GammonLife Columnist
Walter Trice is one of the USA's Top 10 players and an author of books, several programs and numerous articles worldwide since he began playing over 30 years ago. His current book is Backgammon Boot Camp.

Go to Walter Trice's Strategy Section

Mary Hickey - GammonLife Columnist
Mary Hickey, who plays online as mamabear, has taught and written about backgammon for many years. She's been Ohio Player of the Year for the last eight years in a row and won the Ohio Masters in 2002, 2003 and 2006.

Go to Mary Hickey's “Game Plan Selection” Section

Paul Money - GammonLife Columnist
Paul Money, aka dorbel, is a UK expert and author of many strategy articles published worldwide. Paul is currently writing a book to be released in the near future. His GammonLife series is aimed at novice players.

Go to Paul Money's "Beginners Please" Section

Paul Magriel - GammonLife Contributor
Paul Magriel is the 1978 World Champion, #10 Backgammon Giant, and the famous author of “Backgammon”, a strategy book players refer to as “The Bible of Backgammon”. Known as X-22, Paul has contributed a GammonLife Rules section.

Go to Paul Magriel's Rules of Backgammon

Nack Ballard - GammonLife Contributor
World Professional Champion Nack Ballard has reigned as the #1 player internationally for the past six years on the Giants of Backgammon poll. Nack and Paul Weaver have donated a special glossary of backgammon terms found in our Jargon Section.

Go to Nack Ballard's Jargon Section

Paul Weaver - GammonLife Contributor
Paul Weaver has been a top #32 Giant of Backgammon since its inception in 1993. He is currently writing a book on backgammon’s opening rolls with Nack Ballard. Paul and Nack have contributed the Jargon Section to GammonLife.

Go to Paul Weaver's Jargon Section

François Tardieu - GammonLife Contributor
François Tardieu of France is the #3 Giant of Backgammon and has won the title of Champion of Europe three times. In 2006, he and partner Serge Rived, also of France, won the WBA European Doubles Championships.

Go to François Tardieu's Advanced Strategy section

Robert-Jan Veldhuizen - GNU Tutorial Writer
Robert-Jan Veldhuizen is a backgammon expert from Amsterdam in The Netherlands. Robert-Jan plays online since 1994 as Zorba. He is an expert user of the GNUbg bot and has written a great tutorial on it for GammonLife readers.

Go to Robert-Jan Veldhuizen's GNU Tutorial

Frank Frigo - GammonLife Guest Columnist
Frank Frigo is the 1994 World Champion of Backgammon and will be writing for GammonLife periodically. Frank has some ideas on how to establish a new international ranking system for live tournament players.

Go to Frank Frigo's Section on GammonLife

Phil Simborg - GammonLife Guest Columnist

Phil Simborg is a Chicago expert who has supported the game for more than 40 years. While Phil loves to share thoughts on strategy he also has written many articles about the lighter side, and the social values, of the game.
Go to Phil Simborg's Section on GammonLife