World backgammon champ Tim Holland dies at 79
MIAMI - Tim Holland, a world backgammon champion who was one of the most prominent competitors in the game's modern heyday, has died. He was 79.
Holland died Wednesday of emphysema at his West Palm Beach home, said his daughter, Vanessa Holland, of San Diego.
Backgammon is a game of luck and strategy, played with checkers and dice on a board with a series of elongated triangles.
When...
