Backgammon - board game for two players. Although the bones and determine the course of the game backgammon, strategy choice is up to the player. Thus, the best player still prevail if it is held a sufficient number of games of backgammon. Because backgammon - it's not pure luck, but also the skills of players.
Buy backgammon can be more than six thousand years ago and this game has the longest history among all, without exception, games. Backgammon can be purchased at the Far Eastern, Roman and Greek markets and bazaars as well as in Egypt.
Buy backgammon could be in Europe. Catholics played in the version of the game backgammon, called "12 Games of the Line" is probably descended from an Egyptian game called "Saint". Two thousand years ago, the Catholics have changed the direction of 3 rows of 12 lines in 2 rows of 12 lines, as used to this day.
At that time, backgammon got a new name - "plaque" means a rule in Latin, and was often used for gambling.
While the Roman players bought and used 3 dice with 6 sides is almost identical to the game was sold in Persia in the seventh century, using 2 dice and called a backgammon.
With the advent of Islam and its growing influence in Europe, the players took the form boards 2 games of dice, backgammon, and nearly achieved its current form.
In the Middle Ages backgammon buy aristocrats and ordinary people, despite attempts to blame the game church.
The birth of the modern version can be attributed to the 17th century in England when the "table" (the successor to the Roman "plaques") modified (replaced) in backgammon, adding two rules:
First, when both bones are the same number, the movement is doubled. Second, if a player clears all its checkers before his opponent gets all his checkers home victory doubled.
Concerning the origin of the word backgammon, there are two theories: it is, the name comes from the old English language, combining Baccarat (the back) and Geymen: "Back game" since the goal of the game is to remove all parts of government. Another theory says that the origin is the Welsh language, combining (pooling) Bech (meaning small) and ham (the battle).
The popularity of backgammon games in the world today know the ups and downs. In the second half of the 20th century the game began to fly again, mainly because of the Russian prince Ovolenskogo, whose family fled to Turkey from Communist Revolution. Ovolensky settled in the U.S., and started the first world championship game of backgammon, which took place in the Bahamas, and even wrote the first modern book on strategy games backgammon.
In 1979 world championships moved to Monte Carlo, where it takes place so far.
Nowadays, the popularity of Backgammon game reached its peak, thanks to the Internet - shops, where you can buy this game.