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 Backgammon
is one of the oldest games in existence alongside Go and Chess. It is
about 5,000 years old and may well have originated in what today is
Iraq.
Frescoes in many a Roman villa depict the game in progress. The Emperor
Claudius was a keen player and Nero played for huge sums of money.
It became so popular during the Crusades that soldiers below a certain
rank were banned from playing. It is mentioned in early literature by
both Chaucer and Shakespeare.
No one knows for sure where the name came from - the word backgammon
first appeared in print in 1645 - but most likely it comes from the
Middle English baec = back and gamen = game.
The introduction of the doubling cube, sometime around 1925/6 enhanced
the gambling element of the game and guaranteed its future. In the
1970`s the advent of the oil money saw a resurgence in the popularity of
the game and big money tournaments attended by celebrities became the
norm.
The real advances in theory and playing practice came with computers and
particularly with the application of neural network theory. After
pioneering work by Dr. Gerry Tesauro in the IBM Laboratories in White
Plains New York commercial programs such as Snowie became available in
the mid-1990`s. |
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