All but our cheapest wooden sets feature fine wood inlays on the boards and are created from a selection of fine hard woods including walnut and ebony. Our range consists mostly of wooden backgammon sets from major manufacturers like Dal Negro in Italy and Philos Games in Germany.
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Everything from basic travel backgammon sets up to full sized luxury sets of outstanding quality and design. We stock the range of fine Italian backgammons from the well known Dal Negro manufacturer as well as a host of other high quality backgammon sets. While we only have one section of our website devoted to backgammon sets it's far from just a sideline. You might be surprised to see such a superb selection of backgammon sets for sale on a site that's called chess sets UK. This percussive element is a part of the overall enjoyment of this cut and thrust game. To some players it is important to hear the clack, clack sound as the chip hits the wood. Because of the soft landing the chips have on a leather surface the movement is very quiet.
One consideration if you are going to buy a backgammon set is ‘what does it sound like?’ as well as wooden sets there are some very plush looking leather backgammon sets available.
Some are even small enough to fit into t he traveller's pocket. There is a wide range of backgammon travel sets available to buy. This makes it very handy for transporting to the café or the bar, to school or to college, but essential if you need a backgammon travel set. The most widely used backgammon set is the folding type where all the chips and dice fit neatly into the cabinet. A vertical line dividing the board in half separates the inner and outer tables. The board comprises four sections or tables each table contains six spikes in alternation colours. To set up two checkers are placed on the point twenty four, three checkers on point eight, and five checkers on point thirteen and point six. The spikes are numbered one to twenty four. The backgammon board has a track of twelve elongated triangles, sometimes called “spikes”. Checkers, stones, draughts, men, pawns, counters or chips. Players often play for money the stakes can be raised as the game progresses.īackgammon pieces are known by various names. Set-up time is about five to thirty seconds. The playing time is usually between five and thirty minutes. A backgammon set consists of a board, two sets of fifteen checkers, two pairs of dice, a doubling cube and dice cups. The winning player is the one who removes all his pieces first. Ultimately it is the long-term strategist who wins. But strategic moves are also an important skill factor in winning the game. This explained the rules and strategy of backgammon.īackgammon is a game of chance moves are decided by the rolls of the dice. A short treatise on the game of backgammon was published in 1743 by Edmund Hoyle. The term was documented by the Oxford English Dictionary in 1650. The word ‘backgammon’ in English probably comes from back and gammon, a Middle English word meaning game or play.
Ironically by the eighteenth century, backgammon had become very popular with the English clergy. In sixteenth century England Elizabethan laws and church regulations banned the use of playing tables. By the seventeenth century Sweden has also embraced backgammon as one of their favorite games. By the twelfth century Germany had adopted the table games which reached Iceland by the thirteenth century. In France the jeux de tables – table games – an early form of backgammon, appeared during the eleventh century. There are three versions of tarli, portes, which is very similar to western backgammon, plakoto and ferga. Here the game is called tarli, which means board. In Greece, backgammon is extremely popular. This game was almost identical to modern backgammon although most generally played in Eastern Mediterranean countries in the 1970s backgammon became highly popular in most countries of the world. The ancient Romans played a game called ludos duodecim scriptorum, which means twelve lined game. Some estimates say five thousand years old. Of all the games for two players backgammon is one of the oldest.
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