Backgammon

Backgammon is a two player race game combining strategy and dice, played by moving checkers around a board of twenty four triangular points toward each player own home area. It descends from a long lineage of ancient race type board games played with dice: among the oldest known relatives is the Royal Game of Ur, played in Mesopotamia around 2600 to 2400 BC, with board sets excavated at

The first use of doubling in Europe (automatic or during play) originated in a game played in Paris in 1926 between The Grand Duke Dmitri of Russia and Aksel de Wichfeld of Denmark. Those two players reported that to them, their idea of doubling was original.

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