Backgammon’s Long Association With Online Gambling
Backgammon is a brand name for a group of games which are typically made of two boards, typically cardboard, made into nearly square, and are usually very small, being less than three feet square and up to two feet deep. On these two boards, there are up to 60 movable men, using anything from flint, glass, twigs or even toilet paper. These ‘men’ travel to another square, agen togel singapore or grid of 2, 5, or 12. Men with a 2 may block both moves, a 5 may block the front, and a 12 may block the back. Two-mans blockers are blind. Each is colored differently, and plays a different characteristic role.
The two boards of the games are rotated 90 degrees to each other and with the back boards facing up, placing each with the outside edge of the front board; where they are positioned and rotated makes each player’s actions unique. “Hook” moves come out of the lower right corner. The least difficult starting position is having the king in the upper left corner and white men in the upper right corner.
The object of Backgammon is to score as many points as possible. The player should position his men on the back of the board so that they do not interfere with the advancement of other men, and attack with the most effective combinations to knock off pieces or capture more men and score points. At the end of each game, the players compare points gained. The game begins with one player placing each man; the second player then starts making men as in Monopoly.
Backgammon was originally thought to be of Persian origin. In spite of the origin in Persia, where no reliable records of it exist, people in the Orient in recent times played it; for instance some shops of Harrods in Bombay had booths marked “chess” and “backgammon”, agen togel singapore which were under the auspices of the Oriental Chess Club and Player’s Club of India.
A very wide and popular variant of this game of 19th century Europe and America is Carom, and many variations are played. Generally, three contestants, two of whom play at the same time against a third, the two games always occupying the same four spaces, move ‘counter-clockwise’. On ‘5’ space, the man with white on his side may play any number of men, or pass, and the game ends there. At ‘4’ space, the man with white may play either or both boards at the same time. At ‘3’ space, he plays only the front board.
