If you want to be part of the Backgammon community you need to know your “who is who” of Backgammon. An excellent place to get you started is with Backgammon Royalty Kit Woolsey.

Kit Woolsey (1943) is an American Backgammon and Bridge player with a special spot in both communities as a player of high level, a theorist, a writer and a teacher. There is no end to the list of contributions he has made to both gamming circuits, he is even written a Bridge computer software called “Play the Vanderbilt” (perhaps we could enjoy a Backgammon one as well someday?) If you wish to study his game play, there are many annotated Backgammon games online about his matches against other players, like the Backgammon match he played in 1994 against Jeremy Bagai, or in 1998 versus Svilo. His bibliography is also quite impressive an influential, including both subjects Backgammon and Bridge. Among his Backgammon books he has a splendid trilogy called “Match Qiz Book” with annotations on three different matches played by top Backgammon Players. He was also the publisher of one of the most important Backgammon magazines, GammOnline. The contents of the 53 issues of this classic magazine can be found online just by searching in any search engine for the name. Among his other Backgammon book: that can be still being found online books:

- How to Play Tournament Backgammon
- Backgammon: Master Versus Amateur
- New Ideas in Backgammon (co-authored with Hal Heinrich)

Now a little trivia: What does Backgammon Royalty Kit Woolsey do out side of the gaming rink? He is dedicated to the computer world as a computer system analyst.