No tutorials. Just the Real Thing.
Field Notes teaches the theory. This is what it looks like at full speed. World Championship finals from Monte Carlo and USBGF tour coverage, the real matches the top of the game is actually playing.
The Open final from the 2026 Backgammon World Championship at the Fairmont Monte Carlo. The event's been run there since 1979 and is the closest thing the game has to a Wimbledon.
Watch on YouTube →The flagship Main Event final from Monte Carlo 2026. The title the whole tournament builds toward, played out on the biggest stage the sport has.
Watch on YouTube →The previous year's championship final. A good side-by-side with the 2026 final above if you want to see how the cube gets handled differently at the very top under real title pressure.
Watch on YouTube →One more Monte Carlo final for the archive. Three straight years of the same title match lets you watch the meta shift in real time, not just read about it.
Watch on YouTube →A semi-final from the 54th edition, one round before the final — if you want to see how a place in a Monte Carlo final actually gets earned, this is the round where it happens.
Watch on YouTube →U.S. Backgammon Federation coverage from the American Backgammon Tour. The domestic circuit that feeds players toward Monte Carlo, shot and commentated by USBGF's own broadcast team.
Watch on YouTube →All matches embedded directly from their official YouTube channels (Backgammon Galaxy, U.S. Backgammon Federation). Nothing hosted or rehosted here. If a player above looks familiar, that's the point: this is the game played at the level the theory in Field Notes is describing.
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