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The 1st US Backgammon Champion joins Junko Nakamura of Japan and Inge Christoffersen of Denmark to the exclusive list of women who won national backgammon events. Carol Joy Cole, however, is a predominant figure in the American backgammon clique, who on top of playing backgammon professionally runs a backgammon club, organizes several tournaments a year and distributes quality backgammon equipment.
Carol Joy Cole started playing backgammon in the 1970s, studying the game's rules from her two young children, and at the end of the wildest decade in backgammon history she formed the Flint Area Backgammon Club. Since retiring from her day job in Flint public library, she is fully absorbed in backgammon. Following her full time old-new occupation, she has been traveling in and out of the country, taking part in almost every stop in the American Backgammon Tour as well as in some international tourneys.
Winning the US Open backgammon championship "was a huge thrill, I definitely was an underdog in that match", she said (to the Fenton Press), referring to her runner up, 1989 World Backgammon Champion Joe (Joseph) Russell "I didn't win just on luck", she added. Yet, despite Cole's new national title, Flint Area famous weekly backgammon will continue to take place every Thursday evening as in the past 30 years and to offer free tutorials to backgammon beginners.
US Backgammon Champion is a Queen
Carol Joy Cole of Flint, Michigan was crowned the first ever US Backgammon Open Champion. The veteran backgammon player, better known as "the queen of backgammon", had defeated California man and former World Backgammon Champion Joe Russell at the final of the US Open backgammon championship, held between June 4th and 7th in Arlington, Virginia with 25 championship level contestants and about 30 intermediate and beginners' level players.The 1st US Backgammon Champion joins Junko Nakamura of Japan and Inge Christoffersen of Denmark to the exclusive list of women who won national backgammon events. Carol Joy Cole, however, is a predominant figure in the American backgammon clique, who on top of playing backgammon professionally runs a backgammon club, organizes several tournaments a year and distributes quality backgammon equipment.
Carol Joy Cole started playing backgammon in the 1970s, studying the game's rules from her two young children, and at the end of the wildest decade in backgammon history she formed the Flint Area Backgammon Club. Since retiring from her day job in Flint public library, she is fully absorbed in backgammon. Following her full time old-new occupation, she has been traveling in and out of the country, taking part in almost every stop in the American Backgammon Tour as well as in some international tourneys.
Winning the US Open backgammon championship "was a huge thrill, I definitely was an underdog in that match", she said (to the Fenton Press), referring to her runner up, 1989 World Backgammon Champion Joe (Joseph) Russell "I didn't win just on luck", she added. Yet, despite Cole's new national title, Flint Area famous weekly backgammon will continue to take place every Thursday evening as in the past 30 years and to offer free tutorials to backgammon beginners.
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