Backgammon is a game that features a unique blend of both luck and skill. The history of this game can be traced back to as early as 3000 BC, thus it is considered to be the oldest game that is still played today. The ever fascinating appeal of backgammon has helped it survive through the ages.

More recent developments in the history of the game, like for example the invention of the doubling cube in the early 20th century, have made backgammon even more exciting.

During the 1970s the game experienced an extraordinary hype, when especially in the U.S. almost no one could afford NOT to play backgammon. Back then, the New York Times featured a weekly backgammon column by one of the few masters of the game, Mr Paul Magriel.

In the 1980s the backgammon excitement got a bit quieter. But that was just a timeout in the colourful history of this beautiful game.

In the early 1990s, when the Internet started to spread around the globe, Backgammon was back again and since then has never looked back. The opportunity to play backgammon at any given time for any given stake with almost anybody all over the world has made this game explode in a way that was hard to imagine before. And now, in the year 2006, XcitingGames provides you with a new, very special backgammon experience that you don't want to miss out on.