Paul Weaver - USA
Paul Weaver, who goes by the nickname of Wally Peever, lives in Hoover, Alabama. Paul studied math earning a Bachelor's degree at Vanderbilt University and a Master's at Purdue University. He has been playing backgammon since 1978 and has been on the Giants of Backgammon top 32 list since its inception in 1993. Paul has an average Snowie checker play error rate of 2.600, according to 50 matches submitted to GammonLuck.com, where he is ranked #10.
Where is the Backgammon Action?
A world traveler, Paul has provided backgammon lessons to many students of the game and has given some 19 seminars on backgammon, and not only in the USA but in several other countries such as Brazil, Japan and Denmark. Furthermore, he has visited some 40 countries in the world and has played backgammon in 28 of those – he has also, at one time or another, been to all 50 of the United States. When Paul gets to a city he has never visited before, the first thing he looks for is where the backgammon action is.
Backgammon in Australia
In 2008, Weaver went to Australia to check out the backgammon scene in a number of cities there and won both the 2008 South Australia Open Backgammon Championship and the Queensland Backgammon Championship.
Backgammon Openings Book
For many years now, Paul Weaver and Nack Ballard (current Giant #2) have been working together in collecting rollouts to publish a series of books about the best way to play the opening rolls of the game for the first three moves for every first possible roll. In 2007, the first of the books was published and is called Backgammon Openings Book A: 3-1. It has received much acclaim from many of the world's top players, especially other Giants of Backgammon.
Backgammon Championships
Besides several Super Jackpot and Masters wins, Weaver also won 7th Carolina Invitational in 2007, the Consolation of the 12th Japan Open Backgammon Festival in 2006, the Georgia Backgammon Championships in 1999 and 2003 and 48th Indiana Open in 2000
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