Online games are so popular nowadays and backgammon is one of the games that are big in the online arena. Many people are attracted to these real money games that many sites are offering. The prize money for these online competitions is rising on a daily basis. In order to get into the games where you will play for real money, one has to have registered first and most of the times the sites require a player to win a series of games prior to entering into the big money prize games.
The thing is many professional Backgammon for money players are winning their games because they have practiced and practiced to improve their game skills. It won’t be because of sheer luck because if so, they could not compete on a higher level and be better than their opponents. They need to be aware of various strategies and tactics to stand a better chance of winning. In online backgammon games, player rankings are important as these will give you insights of a player’s abilities and their advantage over you. Although these rankings are generally correct, there have been players even professionals who managed to manipulate the figures to their advantage. So players have to be very cautious when playing online Backgammon, especially if they are just starting.
When you play for real money games online, you ought to be aware of your opposition’s skills, and basically rankings offer that for you. The online rankings serves as guide to the players to avoid mismatches but those still occurs at times. You don’t want to be a big loser, get embarrassed and penniless at the same time just because of a mismatch. So when you want to play online games for money, be on the lookout for sites that provides full description of the tournament, the number of players competing and their corresponding descriptive ranks. There are some sites who do not publish these details, so it is best to search sites where complete tournament breakdown of the rules and the rankings are made available or accessible.
Playing online Backgammon for real money is not much different from playing for fun. It’s just that when you know that there is money at stake, there’s an extra edge and spice to the game thus you put more effort in it. Winning is the only choice.
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Saturday, July 3rd, 2010The History Of Backgammon
Saturday, July 3rd, 2010Backgammon, one of the most played online games is an old game with a long history. The origin of backgammon is said to be in Mesopotamia, specifically from the Persian Empire. The game is the oldest known board game throughout history and can be retraced from thousands of years BC. Backgammon is usually played on flat surfaces like wood, with stones as the distinguishing symbol of each players and dice from stones, bones, pottery or even wood.
Backgammon’s history was a grand one, as it is said that the ones who usually played it are the aristocrats and leaders of ancient civilizations in Mesopotamia. Such rich history is supported by relics and literatures which are in reference to Persia, Rome, Greece and the Far East. One of the relics found is known as The Royal Games of Ur. It is a wooden board with a tetrahedral dice discovered from the royal tomb of the Ur al Chaldees (Sumer’s center), dated around 2600 BC. There was also a cuneiform tablet found that is identified to be made about 177 BC which is believed to be the set of rules at that time for the backgammon game.
The backgammon game’s first citation in English was published in The Codex Exoniensis (1025) as Nard or “Tables”. The game was carried on by the people in English taverns and is big and popular all throughout the middle ages. It was known under various names at different countries. It was known as Tavla by Turks, Tavola Reale by Italians, Tric Trac by Frenchmen, Tavli by Greeks, and Backgammon or Tables by British. However, it was prohibited for a time because of its gambling nature.
The term “Backgammon” is said to be coined in 1645 and is derived from either baec (back), gamen (game) by the Saxons or from bac or bach (little), gammon or cammaun (battle) by the Welsh; the first being more likely. Another theory running around its name origin was it was named such because the game’s board was frequently found at the “back” of chessboards but this too is improbable. In 1743, the rules and regulations of the game were organized into a code or system by Edmond Hoyle though his Treatise on Backgammon game—the first official set of modern Backgammon game rules in existence.