| By whatever name the modern game of
| |
| | your fifteen pieces off the board.Simple
|
| backgammon has been known, it is an
| |
| | enough, yes? There are strategic
|
| ancient and global game with roots deep
| |
| | elements, however, as players want to get
|
| in antiquity. Some of the earliest
| |
| | all of their pieces past their opponent's
|
| references can be traced back to
| |
| | pieces. The difficulties are that the
|
| Mesopotamia - the oldest "near-modern"
| |
| | pieces are distributed, at first, and
|
| version is the Persian game "Nard," from
| |
| | may, eventually, block or capture an
|
| about 450 C. E. Ovid wrote of it in the
| |
| | opponent's pieces.Each side of the board
|
| 8th century.Many games have been played
| |
| | has twelve points, generally presented by
|
| on a board of 24 points that came to be
| |
| | elongated triangles of alternating
|
| known as "Game of Tables" - perhaps from
| |
| | colors. The points are numbered from 1
|
| the Latin "Tabula" for "tables."
| |
| | to 24, with pieces always moved from
|
| Variants of the "Game of Tables" that
| |
| | higher to lower-numbered points. The two
|
| used the same initial position of
| |
| | players move their pieces in opposite
|
| backgammon appeared during the Middle
| |
| | directions. Each player begins with two
|
| Ages, with different names, depending
| |
| | pieces on their 24-point, three pieces on
|
| where it was played. For examples:*
| |
| | their 8-point, and five pieces each on
|
| Golaka-Krida, India, 1100's* Shuanglu,
| |
| | their 13 and 6-point.The board can be
|
| China, 1200's* Todas Tablas, Spain,
| |
| | turned horizontally, with starting
|
| 1200's* Nardy, USSR, modernDuring the
| |
| | positions and direction of play also
|
| Renaissance, a variant was the most
| |
| | turned with no change of gameplay.Points
|
| played in England, were it was called
| |
| | one to six, called the home board/inner
|
| "Irish" (1500's). This variant was also
| |
| | board, is where a player wants to get
|
| played in France, called "Toutes Tables"
| |
| | their pieces. A player cannot bear off
|
| and in Italy, called "Totae Tabulae."The
| |
| | any pieces until all of their pieces are
|
| name "backgammon" appeared in 1635 in
| |
| | in their home board. Points seven to
|
| England, as written in "Familiar
| |
| | twelve are called the outer board. The
|
| Letters," by James Howell. However,
| |
| | 7-point is called the bar point and the
|
| backgammon rules were not substantially
| |
| | 13-point is the midpoint.As you learn
|
| codified until 1743, when Edmond Hoyle
| |
| | more of the strategic game of backgammon,
|
| wrote a short treatise, spelling it
| |
| | you'll learn the subtleties of this
|
| "Back-gammon." The only "missing rule"
| |
| | ancient board including "loosing a
|
| was the doubling cube that was introduced
| |
| | gammon," "loosing a backgammon," using
|
| in the US at the end of the 1920's.Modern
| |
| | the doubling cube, learning and using
|
| backgammon basic play is simple: a board
| |
| | three basic strategies - the blockade,
|
| game for two players, each of whom has
| |
| | the blitz and the backgame.Whether you're
|
| fifteen pieces (also known as pawns,
| |
| | playing for the delight of the game
|
| checkers or men), that move between
| |
| | itself or if you feel confident enough to
|
| twenty-four points (triangles) according
| |
| | play for money stakes, learning the
|
| to the roll of two dice. To start a game
| |
| | history and some basic "rules of the
|
| each player throws one die and the
| |
| | board" playing modern backgammon brings
|
| highest roll goes first, using the
| |
| | you into a deep, rich heritage.Intersted
|
| numbers on that rolled dice. In case of
| |
| | in trying out the game ? visit a great
|
| a tie, players roll again. Once the play
| |
| | site where you can download backgammon
|
| begins, each player rolls two dice,
| |
| | software games, play against the computer
|
| alternately. The object of the game is
| |
| | and other online players for fun and for
|
| to be the first to bear off - to move all
| |
| | real money.Enjoy!
|
