The online community MySpace.com announced it will introduce gaming to its social networking website. Backgammon will be included among the offered games from the very beginning. Other games included on this first stage will be Chess and “Dino and Aliens”.

“Sorry, Mr. Kasparov, Astraware Boardgames is for regular folks only!” Howard Tomlinson, Astraware’s CEO, said. The company just released Astraware Boardgames, a computer software featuring a collection of eight classic board games.

Iran’s Burnt City received its name from being burnt down three times in its history. Archeologists hope to uncover evidence showing that, on those occasions, the city’s inhabitants moved to Taleb Kahn mound, here the world’s oldest backgammon set was found.

Google Game Center is an online venue for free multiplayer games. Recently launched, it can be added to personalized iGoogle pages, websites or blogs. It is the first and only portal offering complete multiplayer games that can be played directly through the iGoogle homepage.

Frequently, we find ourselves caught up in a situation where we have nothing to do but to wait for something to happen. A delayed flight is a very common example. While airports offer lots of eateries and shops, that might not be enough for a frequent flyer.

Playing backgammon online has become very popular in recent years. The trend started with the development of the first online backgammon website, in 1992. Technology has advanced since then, improving and diversifying the offer of online gaming.

Poker professional player Gus Hansen will be the official commentator for the World Series of Backgammon (WSOB) Championship. The event will start in November at the UK Masters, in London. Hansen will be accompanied by co-commentator John Clark and host Jessie Cantrell.

Google announced that their personalized homepage iGoogle will soon be made available in Hebrew. The new homepage was developed by Google’s research and development center in Tel Aviv. The announcement took place last Sunday.

The 2007 edition of the Backgammon World Championship has already crowned the new best backgammon player in the world. After a tight match, Jorge Pan, from Argentina, defeated Brazilian player Alvaro Savio to become this year’s winner.

Mind Sports Worldwide, a company based in London, has decided to hold the first Middle East Mind Sports Olympiad in Dubai. The Olympiad will consist of a series of workshops to teach skills in several mind games like backgammon. Workshops will be followed by competitions.