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Posted by Nicolae on October 28th, 2008 under Wagering guide
Tags: auction, backgammon, basketball, betting, bidding, Calcutta, Calcutta Auction, contest, contestants, golf, horse race, March Madness, NCAA, open, parimutuel, payoff, pools, tournament, Video, wager •
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A Calcutta Auction is an open auction held in conjunction with a golf tournament, horse race, or similar contest with multiple entrants. It is popular in Backgammon and is currently enjoying rising popularity for NCAA Basketball pools during March Madness.Bidding for each contestant begins in random order, with only one contestant [...]
Posted by Nicolae on July 12th, 2008 under Backgammon Guide, Rules, games
Tags: Automatic doubles, Backgame, backgammon, bar point, Basic Strategies, bear them off, beavers, Blitz, Crawford Rule, doubles, doubling cube, games, Holding Game, home board, inner board, Jacoby Rule, mid point, outer board, players, Priming Game, raccoons, Rules, Running Game, sample game, strategies •
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Backgammon is a simple game with deep strategic elements. It does not take long to learn to play, although obscure situations do arise which require careful interpretation of the rules. The playing time for each individual game is short, so it is often played in matches, for example the first to five [...]
Posted by Nicolae on July 11th, 2008 under Backgammon Guide, games
Tags: backgammon, Brädspel, Central Asia, Chouette, computer, gambling games, Gul Bara, History, ifranjiah, links, LongGammon, maghribiyya, mahbusa, Middle East, Nackgammon, Old English Rule, Runte Rule, shesh besh, Swedish Tables, Tabla, Tavli, variants, табла •
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Backgammon is a board game for two players. Each player has fifteen pieces (checkers) which move between twenty-four triangles (points) according to the roll of two dice. The objective of the game is to be first to bear off, that is, to move all fifteen checkers off the board. The oldest [...]
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