So, let's go back to an earlier topic -- Jean-Claude, the backgammon king of the feline world! This wild and crazy guy is at it again in the second episode of his adventures over at BackgammonMasters.com -- which is well on its way to becoming the world's number one online backgammon site!

Now as you may remember from my earlier discussion, Jean-Claude is a backgammon playing fool. Well, maybe fool isn't the right word, because he is really a backgammon king -- and with apologies to his cousin Leo, might I suggest he is the backgammon king of the jungle?

Anyway, this master predator is a real strategist, as well as a student of history. In his latest lesson for we would-be online backgammon legends, Jean-Claude turns military historian on us, pointing us back to World War II and the famous Operation Barbarossa -- when Hitler attacked Russia and Stalin's forces drew the Nazi Wehrmacht into a battle against superior numbers and the weather in Russia's heartland (similar to what happened to napoleon some thirteen decades earlier.

Well as I was saying, Jean-Claude humorously draws comparisons between the game of backgammon and the strategy of both sides during this critical phase of the Eastern Front of the Second World War in Europe. In doing so, he shows how backgammon is a game of strategy -- a game of war -- and that the lessons of combat are applicable to the smaller sphere of gaming. An important lesson to learn if you are to be a backgammon champion -- success is based upon long-term thinking and not over-extending one's resources.

And to use an old advertising slogan -- put a tiger in your tank. And in Jean-Claude's case, make it a Panzer tank.

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