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Former World Backgammon Champion Joseph (Joe) Russell has jumped to the 32 Giants of Backgammon list after ten years of absence from the top of the list.(correspondingly with his absence from leading backgammon championships).

2Russell, a software designer of Los Angeles California and a member of the US Backgammon Federation Board of Directors (together with backgammon masters Richard Munitz and Jacob "Stick" Rice) had won the 1989 Monte Carlo World Backgammon Championship and the American Backgammon Championship in 1995. He was included in the first Giants of Backgammon list in 1993 (at number 15) and in the forthcoming lists until 1999.

Russell's comeback to backgammon giantism has naturally followed his return to the American backgammon circuit. First, as the 33rd Michigan Masters semi-finalist, later as the 2008 Nevada State Backgammon Tournament finalist, the 1st US Backgammon Open 2009 finalist (losing the crown to Carol Joy Cole) and the 2009 California State Backgammon Champion.