I watch this, and I can't stop remembering my grandfather-who loved this game dearly, but sadly I never had the opportunity to learn from him. He was an extremely educated and systemic person - raised in the Soviet Union, graduated with top grades, and got into University alone with no support neither from family or the government. This morphed his personality into a careful and paranoid-little bit systematic man; he knew the price of money, so by himself, he built his career from dirt. He was a man who could and had a lot to say... I remember listening to his life tales. My father-who was not fond of my grandfather- had quarreled a lot with him, so because my father was a more authoritarian figure to me, I embraced his ideologies over my grandfather's... My Father had severe abandonment issues due to neglect from my Grandfather, and that formed his personality into a little-unruly man. Following my father's path, I constantly avoided my grandfather before he passed away, and when he did, I regretted not sitting by him more often and learning as much as I could from him. Sorry for my little monologue here... 😅

Absolutely love backgammon ❤