Just found this backgammon article by Lewis Deyong, one of the greatest backgammon masters in the world.
"I lived then in New York and used to play a lot with Gino Scalamandre. One evening, he told me, "We are going on a little road trip." I didn't know where, but soon we entered a nice hotel suite, to be introduced to our opponent. Oz was then in his 70s, tall, vigorous with an unruly mop of white hair and talking a mile a minute. He looked like The Nutty Professor but was in fact, the legendary Jacoby, who had also invented the concept of the pip count for races."
read the rest at ladbrokes backgammon