{"id":495,"date":"2025-04-09T01:27:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T22:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zali.design\/uk\/?p=495"},"modified":"2025-04-27T23:45:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T20:45:43","slug":"how-to-become-a-backgammon-champion-strategies-and-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zali.design\/en\/how-to-become-a-backgammon-champion-strategies-and-tactics\/","title":{"rendered":"70s Stars and Backgammon: The Game Behind the Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\r\n<p>In the 1970s, as rock \u2018n\u2019 roll ruled the world and concert halls filled with thousands of fans, a very different passion burned behind the scenes \u2014 a passion for backgammon. This ancient Eastern game unexpectedly became a cult favorite among global celebrities, especially among legendary musicians.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<p>For rock stars of that era, backgammon was more than just a pastime. It was a way to unwind between concerts, dive into tactical thinking, and relieve the stress of life on tour. In rare black-and-white archive photos, you can see Pink Floyd members David Gilmour and Roger Waters engrossed in a game, sitting in a tour hotel. Nearby \u2014 beer cans and a box of cigarettes, while on the table sits a classic backgammon board, a silent witness to musical conversations and friendly rivalry.<p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1970s, as rock \u2018n\u2019 roll ruled the world and concert halls filled with thousands of fans, a very different passion burned behind the scenes \u2014 a passion for backgammon. This ancient Eastern game unexpectedly became a cult favorite among global celebrities, especially among legendary musicians.\u00a0 For rock stars of that era, backgammon was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zali.design\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zali.design\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zali.design\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zali.design\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zali.design\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/zali.design\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1328,"href":"https:\/\/zali.design\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/1328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zali.design\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zali.design\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zali.design\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zali.design\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}