Backgammon is a two-player board game played with counters and dice on tables boards. It is the most widespread Western member of the large family of tables...
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Tables game (redirect from Backgammon variant)
Tables games are a class of board game that includes backgammon and which are played on a tables board, typically with two rows of 12 vertical markings...
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Backgammon is one of the oldest board games. Backgammon may also refer to: Backgammon (1979 video game), an Atari 2600 video game Backgammon (1988 video...
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The backgammon chouette is a variant of backgammon for three or more players. Traditionally played in person, today, the internet allows this form of backgammon...
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moves of a backgammon game are the opening moves, collectively referred to as the opening, and studied in the backgammon opening theory. Backgammon opening...
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backgammon champions: Games portal Computer Olympiad - Backgammon List of world championships in mind sports "Overview of World Champions Backgammon on...
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A rollout is an analysis technique for backgammon positions and moves. A rollout consists of playing the same position many times (with different dice...
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Glossary of tables game terms (redirect from Backgammon (tables))
games played on a Backgammon-type board. Terms in this glossary should not be game-specific (e.g. specific to a single game like Backgammon or Acey-deucey)...
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Backgammon is an erotic mystery film, directed and co-written by Francisco Orvañanos. Young couple Lucian and Elizabeth arrive at their college friend...
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world-champion backgammon player, highly paid teacher of the game, author of four backgammon books and successful gambler who won more major backgammon tournaments...
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Backgammon notation is a means for recording backgammon games, developed by Paul Magriel in the 1970s. The common way of describing the movement of checkers...
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ten-ball straight pool Snooker men women team amateurs six-red Mind sports Backgammon Bridge Chess open women team Draughts men women checkers draughts-64 draughts-64...
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Irish (game) (section Backgammon comparison)
centuries before being superseded by its derivative, the "faster paced" backgammon. In its day, Irish was "esteemed among the best games at Tables." Its...
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World Series of Backgammon (WSOB) is a major televised live tour. The television shows capture the match action, jeopardy and background around some of...
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In backgammon, there are a number of strategies that are distinct to match play as opposed to money play. These differences are most apparent when a player...
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world class backgammon player from Memphis, Tennessee. He is a founding sponsor and the chairman of the board of directors of the U.S. Backgammon Federation...
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Tavla is a Turkish tables game. It often refers to the western game of Backgammon and to tables games in general. However, it also refers to the more traditional...
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randomized questions. King Graham's Board Game Challenge: Checkers & Backgammon: A board game collection starring King Graham. Quest for Daventry is a...
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Plakoto (section Backgammon comparison)
along with two other variants, Févga and Pórtes (the latter is similar to backgammon). Together these three games are called Távli, and are played in sequence...
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States Backgammon Federation (USBGF) is dedicated to promoting the game of Backgammon in the United States, and is a member of World Backgammon Federation...
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Tawula (redirect from Greek Backgammon)
once popular in Asia Minor and Egypt. It is sometimes called Turkish backgammon in English; however, this is misleading, as there are fundamental differences;...
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ABPA Backgammon is a backgammon video game for Intellivision (ABPA stands for American Backgammon Players Association). This was one of the original four...
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tables game for two players that is sometimes considered ancestral to backgammon. It is still played today, albeit in a different form. As in other tables...
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Turkish: Tavla, Tabla, Latin: Tabula), sometimes called Greek backgammon or Iraqi backgammon in English, is the most popular way of playing tables games...
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Jacquet (game) (redirect from Spanish Backgammon)
Jacquet is a tables game played on a backgammon-like board and which was once very popular in France and several other parts of Europe. It probably emerged...
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Tim Holland may refer to: Tim Holland (backgammon) (1931–2010), backgammon world champion Timothy Holland, geologist Tim Holland (politician), Canadian...
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List of GNU packages (redirect from GNU Backgammon)
Reality microkernel Gnu Panorama – 3D framework, ray tracing GNU Backgammon – backgammon game GNUbik – implementation of the Rubik's Cube puzzle GNU Chess...
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Libro de los juegos (redirect from Seven-sided backgammon)
the information from Arabic works on this same topic, dice and tables (backgammon forebears) games, commissioned by Alfonso X of Castile, Galicia and León...
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be a descendant of this game, and both are tables games as is modern backgammon. It has been speculated that XII scripta is related to the Egyptian game...
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Emotional Backgammon is a 2003 British independent comedy-drama about couples strategizing to repair relationships, with unexpected results. The film was...
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