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Something embarrassing happened to me this week. I was asked to review Backgammon King by Magmic and I have to admit it here, I never played the game of Backgammon before. Sure I’ve heard about it ...

Matvey Natanzon, who was known as Falafel because he subsisted on deep-fried chickpea balls hustling gullible opponents in Washington Square Park in Manhattan while he groomed himself to be the ...

Natanzon, who was born in Soviet Russia, emigrated to Israel with his mother when he was 4 years old and later moved to the United States, spending his teenage years in Buffalo, was a compulsive ...

A Russian-born émigré by way of Israel, he made a gambler’s living taking on challengers, and often hustling them, in becoming the world’s ranking player. By Sam Roberts Matvey Natanzon, who was known ...