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Backgammon is a two-player in which each participant has a set of 15 playing pieces, arranged on a board of 24 triangles (known as points), split into 4 quadrants. The pieces are placed for each set in a prearranged starting position.

The goal of the game is to remove all your pieces from the board. First move your pieces to your home quadrant (the near left quadrant), in a horseshoe manner starting at the far left quadrant. Only after all of your pieces are in the home quadrant, you may start removing them out of the game board - an action known as bearing off. The player who bears off all of his pieces first wins.

The origin of the game's name is probably from middle English "gamen" which means game or play. But, the oldest known game to resemble modern Backgammon is the Egyptian Senet, which was a two player game in which each side tried to race his pieces towards the opponent's side and the moves were determined by throwsticks or knucklebones. However it is more probable that backgammon is a descendent of ancient Mesopotamia's Royal game of Ur, of which evidence was uncovered in the "Burnt City" in Iran dates to 3000 BC!

The ancient Romans had a similar game which they named the "Game of twelve lines" (Ludus duodecim scriptorum) though there is a significant similarity between it and the Egyptian Senet as to safely assume it was more of an influence over Roman culture rather than a self developed entertainment idea.

However, the most resembling ancient game was recorded in an epigram dating to the 5th century in Byzantium, and called Tabula (`table' or `board' in English), in which players used 3 dice to determine their pieces' moves over a board with 24 points. The goal of the game was to bear off all your pieces before your opponent does.

In the 11th century a predecessor of modern backgammon - tables - became a favorite gambling game of the commoners in France and quickly spread upwards, consuming all hierarchy levels in a gambling frenzy, enough to force Louis IX to ban the game... that didn't prevent the game to gain even more popularity and keep spreading from as north as Iceland and as west as England. Speaking of which, in the 16th century the Anglican Church led by Queen Elizabeth tried to abolish tables much as the French king 500 years before her, without much avail. The game was quite popular among the clergy by the 18th century. A short treatise on the Game Back-Gammon was published in 1743 by the famous Edmond Hoyle, the fore-father of most card game rules, laying grounds to the official core rules and strategy of Backgammon. The addition of the doubling cube was first introduced in the late 20s of the 20th century in New York City in a club at the lower east side.