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Backgammon entered the computer era in the 1990s when software was developed to play and analyze games, and for people to play one another over the internet. Johnson's Expert Backgammon, introduced in 1990, was the first commercially available software package to analyze positions and provide stats for wins, losses, gammons, and backgammons. It ...
Examples: Backgammon and Portes. [15] home. noun. The first point on a player's side. [5] noun. The starting or finishing point. [5] adverb. To the player's first six points. [5] To play at home. To play one's pieces in one's first twelve points. [5] home board, home table That quadrant of the board containing a player's points 1 to 6.
The first moves of a backgammon game are the opening moves, collectively referred to as the opening, and studied in the backgammon opening theory. Backgammon opening theory is not developed in as much detail as opening theory in chess, which has been widely studied. This is because following the first move in backgammon, there are 21 dice roll ...
The word 'tables' is derived from the Latin tabula which primarily meant 'board' or 'plank', but also referred to this genre of game. From its plural form, tabulae, come the names in other languages for this family of games including the Anglo-Saxon toefel, German [wurf]zabel, Greek tavli, Italian tavoli, Scandinavian tafl, Spanish tablas and, of course, English and French tables.
Players: Go is a game between two players, called Black and White. Rule 2. [8] Board: Go is played on a plain grid of 19 horizontal and 19 vertical lines, called a board. Definition.("Intersection", "Adjacent") A point on the board where a horizontal line meets a vertical line is called an intersection.
The game is usually just known as Nardy or Nardi in Russian, but called Long Nardy to distinguish it from Backgammon which they call 'Short Nardy'. English sources sometimes mistranslate Nardy as "Backgammon", so the game is sometimes incorrectly called Long Backgammon. However, there are fundamental differences; for example, both players move ...
It is compulsory to move two off the head on the first go if a double 3, double 4 or double 6 is rolled. [6] Bearing off is as normal and the first player to bear off all pieces wins and scores 1 point. If this is achieved before the opponent bears any pieces off, the game scores double. [6]
L'Attaque was subsequently adapted by the Chinese into Luzhanqi (or Lu Zhan Jun Qi), and by Milton Bradley into Stratego, the latter having been trademarked in 1960 while the former remains in the public domain. Jury Box, published in 1935, was the first murder mystery game which served as the basis for games like Cluedo.