Jake Jacobs - Singapore
Born in Chicago on June 25, 1953, Jake Jacobs is a world traveller and World Class backgammon player who was the 2001 American Backgammon Tour Player of the Year and has been ranked in the top 32 Giants of Backgammon since 1997. Jake met a lovely woman named Ta in Thailand, who he married in 2008 in a beautiful ceremony at Ban Nam Duk Neu, a small village in Thailand's countryside.
Jake has played for some 30 years and has written many backgammon strategy articles for online and offline publications, often about his experiences playing all over the world – he has travelled extensively through the Far East, and has many backgammon friends in Tokyo, Singapore and Bangkok – Jacobs' analysis is always dead-on and his style of writing is often witty and humorous, and therefore, always fun to read.
In 1996, Jake Jacobs and Walter Trice published a book called Can a Fish Taste Twice as Good? which is about doubling in match play against an unequal opponent. Then in 1997, Jake published a second book called A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Four-Point which is a collection of articles he wrote between 1990 and 1996.
In a previous online interview, Jake said his favourite backgammon tournament venue is Costa Rica, that he loves pizza and that he also likes to play Scrabble and Bridge. Besides earning cash for placing in events, Jacobs has won first place in these events: 2003 Star Online Cup, 2001 Chicago Open, 2001 Pittsburgh Open, 1999 Land of Lincoln Masters, 1999 Peachtree Cup, 1999 Thailand Masters, 1996 U.S. Open, 1996 Midwest Open and the 1984 Nevada State Championship
