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Talking Backgammon
Language is multi faceted and multi tongued, that’s not to say you have more than one tongue it just means you’re able to speak more than one language.
For speech read communication, the ability to be able to converse on a given subject so that others can understand you. It should be easy, shouldn’t it?
But learning another language is undoubtedly one of the hardest things that you can do. As children we learn our own way of talking and our own language from our parents and when we go to school from our teachers, in these formative years we collect the language of words, it is not until we are older in most cases that we move onto another language.
By 12, this later learning is not the best way to pick languages up, it is even too late for some of us by then. The quicker we learn the more chance we have of picking it up.
The same can be said for playing backgammon and other skill based games, because these games contain a language all of their own, which requires learning too. Once the language is learned the game should become easier to play.
It is a simplistic formula, but for the beginner in the game can become very testing, therefore before even picking up a piece what should be the first lesson for new backgammon player’s should be how to talk backgammon.
Here are some words and terms that are used in backgammon.
Anchor - Two or more chips occupying any point within the inner board of the opponent
Joker - A lucky roll, a great roll, one that has the ability to affect the game's outcome in a person's favor
Pip Count - This represent the points in which a player is required to take in order to bear off. At the start of the game each player has 167 as their pip count. This stands for:
- Point 24 - 2 chips= 48 pips
- Point 13 - 5 chips = 65 pips
- Point 8 - 3 chips - 24 pips
- Point 6 - 5 chips - 30 pips
Point – Represented by the 24 points on the board, triangular in shape these form the basis of play or the spaces from which the pieces are moved. . They can also be used in scoring, for how many points or wins the game is worth.
Single Game - A game won by bearing off all chips before the opponent, when the opponent is bearing off as well.
Gammon - A game won by bearing off all chips before the opponent, when the opponent has not begun bearing off.
Backgammon – From which the game takes its name.
This occurs when a person bears off all chips before the opponent and the opponent has not begun to bear off, and the opponent has a blot on the bar.
Bear off - The act of removing backgammon chips off of the board.
Blot - A single backgammon chip susceptible to attacks from the opposition.
Hit - To attack the blot of an opponent, the blot is then placed on the center bar of the board.
Hit and Cover - You not only attack the blot of your opponent, but you also keep moving that same chip, protecting the blot you would have left exposed..
Like any language getting to know the words and their meaning is the best way to conquer it, backgammon is no different.
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