Robert H WachtelCurrently ranked world #11 on the peer-rated survey "The Giants of Backgammon" and Grandmaster 2nd class by the Backgammon Masters Awarding Body (BMAB), Robert Wachtel has been one of the game's elite players for the last 40 years. A chess master, Dotor of Philosophy and an ex-options trader, he is the author of two prior backgammon books, In the Game until the End (1993) and In the Game until the End Vol. II (2014), and more than 40 journal articles. Robert was the editor of the US Backgammon Federation's flagship magazine, PrimeTime Backgammon, from 2011 to 2019. He is the author of The Language of Backgammon: A Player's Dictionary, a companion volume to The Backgammon Chronicles. Read More Read Less