Apr 28 2008
Online Backgammon
Anyone of you familiar with the game of Backgammon? Well, I checked and looked it up on Wikipedia and found this description.
Backgammon is a board game for two players in which the playing pieces are moved according to the roll of the dice. A player wins by removing all of his checkers from the board. It is a member of the tables family, one of the oldest classes of board games in the world.
Although luck plays an important role, there is a large scope for strategy. With each roll of the dice a player must choose from numerous options for moving his checkers and anticipate possible counter-moves by the opponent. Players may raise the stakes during the game. There is an established repertory of common tactics and occurrences.
Like chess, backgammon has been studied with great interest by computer scientists. Owing to this research, backgammon software has been developed capable of beating world-class human players.
A backgammon set consists of a board, two sets of 15 checkers, two pair of dice, a doubling cube, and dice cups.
Well, in addition to that, there is already backgammon online, meaning, it is already played over the internet. This online backgammon works the same way as in a traditional way you play it on a board. I heard they even have backgammon tournaments online.
Interested? Why not check it out. 
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