20 Sep 2024

This Weekend: Backgammon North Island Champs

From Nights, 9:15 pm on 20 September 2024

Every Friday, we bring you some of the most interesting events and happenings coming up in Aotearoa this weekend - from the community fairs to the massive concerts.

This weekend, it's backgammon baby.

The North Island Backgammon Championship is being hosted this Saturday and Sunday in the west coast seaside town of Raglan. 

Tournament organiser Dermont Murtagh speaks to Emile.

TO GO WITH AFP STORY
Egyptians play backgammon at a cafe in Cairo on November 24, 2014. Six months after Abdel Fattah al-Sisi became Egypt's president a deadly crackdown on Islamist supporters of Sisi's predecessor Mohamed Morsi, whom he ousted last year has generated a climate of fear at train and bus stations, public squares and cafes, activists say. AFP PHOTO / MOHAMED EL-SHAHED (Photo by MOHAMED EL-SHAHED / AFP)

Photo: MOHAMED EL-SHAHED