Bill Robertie - USA
Bill Robertie is a two-time Monte Carlo World Backgammon Champion, winning the world's biggest event in 1983 and in 1987. He also won the Pro Am tournament when it was held in The Bahamas in 1993 as well as the World Cup in Istanbul in 1994. Robertie also won the International Cup at the 2001 Worldwide Twin Championships in Las Vegas, Nevada and was also one of the 25 Giants of Backgammon who played at the Atlantis Million event in The Bahamas in January of 2007.
An author of many backgammon books, several of which come highly recommended for players of all levels, Bill has been on every 32 Giants of Backgammon list since 1993 and has been ranked as high as #6.A graduate of Harvard University, Robertie has also been a Chess Master winning the 1970 U.S. Speed Chess Championship. He has written five books on Chess.
In recent years, Robertie has co-authored, with former backgammon player Dan Harrington (winner of the 1995 WSOP Main Event), a series of three Poker books on how to play Texas Hold'em tournaments called Harrington on Hold'em.Robertie lives in the State of Massachusetts and was organizing and directing a backgammon tournament there in the early 2000s called the Boston Open. From 1991 to 1999 he edited magazine called "Inside Magazine" with Kent Goulding, another top player who wrote the “Backgammon with the Champions” series, and who was the creator of the KG Ranking List.
