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Backgammon Terms starting with 'T'
Tempo - A unit of time in positional development equivalent to half a roll
Triple Shot - A checker that is exposed to the possible hits from three of the opponent's men.
Turn the Cube, Turn the Crank or Twist - To offer a double.
Turn - The alternate actions of each player in the game. Players rotate or take turns rolling the dice, playing the moves, doubling with the cube and picking up the dice.
Triple Game (Backgammon) - A game in which you score triple (three times) the value of the points at stake, accomplished only if you bear off all your checkers and your opponent has yet to bear off a single checker and still has one or more checkers remaining in your home board or on the bar. (See also Gammon where one scores a double game.)
Trailer - A player who has fallen behind in the race to the home board or is behind or losing in the score of the match.
Too Good to Double - A position in which a player should not offer a double because his chances of scoring a gammon are very high. He should therefore play on for the extra points rather than allow his opponent to get off easy now, at the present stakes.
Timing - The general rate of progress of a player's and the opponent's checkers observed in terms of their likely position at a future decisive point in the game. Timing can be controlled either by leaving checkers open to be hit, and by calculating if you should hit your opponent's blots or not. Timing is often used when you want to avoid your board from crunching.
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Children and the Backgammon board game
It is within the human nature to play whenever we feel bored or the need to relax, but as we grow older, the need for games grows dim and gets replaced with the comfort of our friends and even our home....
- 07 January 2009
People skills and the game of backgammon
There are a wide variety of games that come with a lot of historical baggage but none of them actually compares to the classical backgammon board game. Although this is one of the oldest games in history, dating since before 3000 B....
- 31 May 2009
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