Paul Magriel, a former youth chess champion who traded game boards to become known as the world’s best backgammon player, then turned to poker as his passion for gambling grew, died Monday at his home ...
Paul Magriel, a former youth chess champion who traded game boards to become known as the world’s best backgammon player, then turned to poker as his passion for gambling grew, died Monday at his home ...
Poker players and fans of the game during the 2000s will remember Paul Magriel’s face from TV coverage of poker’s richest tournaments. He passed away this week at the age of 71. Poker legend Erik ...
It was with great sadness that I learned my longtime friend, gaming companion and teacher Paul Magriel had passed away. Paul, aka X22, Quack-Quack, and even Professor Quack-Quack, was one of the most ...
Long after his participatory journalism heyday had passed, George Plimpton got into the arena to measure himself against the professionals one more time in 1977. He challenged Paul Magriel, then the ...
After winning the New York State Junior Chess Championship at 19, Magriel (pronounced ma-GRILL) became fixated by backgammon, the 5,000-year-old dice-and-disk board game that combines luck, skill and ...
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