We meet on the 2nd and 4th Thursday mornings from 10.00am to 12pm at Great Linford, for friendly games of Backgammon, all levels welcome including beginners. Cost per session £3.00
Backgammon is a two-player board game played with counters and dice on table boards. It is one of the most widespread Western member of the large family of table games, whose ancestors date back nearly 5,000 years to the regions of Mesopotamia and Persia.
Backgammon is a two-player game of contrary movement in which each player has fifteen pieces known traditionally as men (short for 'tablemen'), or counters. The backgammon table pieces move along twenty-four 'points' according to the roll of two dice. The objective of the game is to move the fifteen pieces around the board and be first to bear off, i.e., remove them from the board. The achievement of this while the opponent is still a long way behind results in a triple win known as a backgammon, hence the name of the game.
Backgammon involves a combination of strategy and luck (from rolling dice). While the dice may determine the outcome of a single game, the better player will accumulate the better record over a series of many games. With each roll of the dice, players must choose from numerous options for moving their pieces and anticipate possible counter-moves by the opponent.
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