![]() Backgammon FAQ, by Mark Damish. IMPORTANT NOTE: There are no planned updates for this document. As. a result, IP address, mail addresses, phone numbers are bound to. A Frequently Asked Question. A. compendium of accumulated lore, posted periodically to high- volume. Some people. prefer the term 'FAQ list' or 'FAQL' /fa'kl/, reserving 'FAQ' for. ![]() Send E- Mail to the editor. FAQs. Just send mail to. It is. currently the `source' document for the ASCII version posted to. This will. contain the differences between successive FAQs. It will not be posted to the. The purpose of. the diff file is to show recent changes without having to browse the entire. FAQ. DO NOT use this file to update previous versions of the FAQ as it will. In the diff file, a `< ' charactor preceding. ![]() To link to this poem, put the URL below into your page: <a href="http:// of Myself by Walt Whitman</a> Plain for. UNIQUEID=A491818DDFEC30498843B91246C272AD #URL ID=877 NAME=HTML codes for extensions to ASCII URL=http:// CREATED =1213409274. Likewise, a `> '. The diff file is edited and should not. FIBS Client info. Ross LDB (Long Distance Backgammon) mail server info. Contributor at large. Zehr Book Review, Holland rule, Combinitorics answer. Narde description. ![]() Proof reader. deluxe. Material from rec. Who is. intersted can ask info and the invitation. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Alberto da Pra, President of WBF - Worldwide. Backgammon Federation. It's a game of skill and luck. A random element. People think the game consists. That's not true. Certain. Paul Magriel. Answering ``Why do you play backgammon''. We have become a spectator society, one that experiences excellence. Perhaps the best way of becoming. We can invent our own art forms, or at. Backgammon, though it is very. Patterns of points and. The player strains to work with them. ![]() Dans une cantine menu cantine scolaire canto cantina midi lamborghini canto en cantine cantine aperte 29 cantina produttori cantine sociali d une cantine s cantina. Your personal information and card details are 100% secure. What are the basic rules of the game? Backgammon Equipment. A Backgammon board or layout. Thirty round stones, or checkers, 15 each of two different colors. One's identity is not entirely intrinsic, nor is it. We can shape ourselves just as we can shape our. By playing backgammon, that is - by creating patterns of. I help to shape my identity, I set myself apart from. I become alive.''. Felix Yen (from Anchors, Jan 9. A Backgammon board or layout. This is used to keep track of the number of. The side nearest you is your outer and home tables. The. arrows indicate the direction of play. Your (X's) 4- point or 8- point will always be on your side. O's) will always be on his side of. A move from White's 1. Each side has. five men on his 6- point, three men on his 8- point, five men on his. The runners will have to travel the full length of the. Note that play. proceeds in opposite directions, so that the men can be set up in two. Turn the diagram upside down to see the layout if play were. The first. player to get all his men off the board is the winner. The player with the higher number makes. In the event that both players roll the same number, it. In tournament play, there is no. Each player's turn consists of the roll of two dice. He then moves. one or more men in accordance with the numbers cast. Assume he rolls. 4- 2. He may move one man six spaces, or one man four spaces and. Bear in mind that, when moving a single man. Thus, if he rolls 3- 3, he can move up to four men, but each move. He then ``owns'' that point, and his opponent can neither come to. An opposing man trapped behind a prime cannot move past, for. If you move a man onto. Re- entry is made on a point. If the opponent has any men on the bar, he will. Therefore, he forfeits his rolls, and. It should. be noted, the he doesn't loses his turn, as he still retains the. If he can take either of the numbers but not. Men borne off the board are not re- entered into. The player who bears off all his men first is the winner. A. player may not bear off men while he has a man on the bar, or outside. Thus if, in the process of bearing off, a player. However, you are not compelled to. You may, if you can, move a man inside your home board. Both. dice must come to rest completely flat in that board. If one die. crosses the bar into the other table, or jumps off the board, or does. At the commencement of play, the doubling cube rests. At. any point during the game, a player who thinks he is sufficiently. His opponent. may decline to accept the double, in which case he forfeits the game. The player who accepts the. If, at a later stage he exercises. He may. either decline the redouble and so lose 2 units, or accept and play. A player may double when he is on. Note that gammon doubles or backgammon. It states, that a gammon. The purpose is to speed up play by eliminating. For example, if A makes an. B may, instead of taking the double and holding a. Cube. ownership remains with B. B may then if he wishes turn the cube yet. One other player is the captain, and rolls the. If the. box wins, the captain goes to the back of the line, and the next player. If the captain wins, the box goes to the back of the. In. others, consultation is prohibited. A compromise, where consultation. The only. decisions that players other than the captain were allowed to make. If the box doubled, each player on the. Today, multiple- cube Chouettes. Two or more checkers on a point. However, the shortest distance between two points is not always a. Most beginners, rarely leave exposed checkers and hit as. As you will find out, this seemingly logical approach. The following is a simplification of some of. Distribution. It is usually better to have 3 checkers each on two different. You should rarely. A player. with even distribution will seemingly get . Be more cautious as your enemy's home board gets. The more points he has in his home board, the more difficult. Conversely, the more. Even if his board is weak, limit the number of blots. If you are significantly ahead. Establishing. these critical points as early as possible in approximate order of. Six points in a row is. This makes it impossible for your opponent to escape. Attack. only when it is advantageous to do so. For example, if you already. Also refrain from. Keep your. objectives in mind and don't be side- tracked. However, there is an old. This gives you a landing spot to come in on should. Early in. the game try to establish anchors on the higher points (2. If you become. significantly behind in the race, the lower points (2. If you have. two anchors try to keep them on adjacent points. There are many fine books available if you awant more. You just logged in as guest. All. passwords are encrypted before they are saved. If you forget. your password there is no way to find out what it was. Aliases for. bye include: adios, ciao, tschoe, end, exti, logout, and quit. Reject a resignation. Both players need to agree. Are there any missing commands? Every player starts with a rating of 1. Bitting btbr. 68a@prodigy. FIBS ratings reports are posted regularly to Rec. Back issues are. available from. Currently there several computer programs on FIBS: tesauro (the original neural net bg program TD- Gammon) mloner (neural net) idiot (neural net (Jelly. Fish)) jellyfish (nn) loner (The 1- pt version of mloner) EXBGthree fatboy (nn) fattest (nn) jemina (Algrithmic, entering cocoon, to emerge as a nn) music Big. The contents. make a nice reference to FIBS and the FIBS/W interface. Commands are. pre- sorted by catagory, and it makes looking for an answer extremely. It is 8 pages on 6 sheets of paper, and is especially worthwile. It is not just a rehash of the man pages. References to 'OK'. Svcs. Boston 6. The World. New York City 2. PANIX Public Access Unix. Many OKbridgers play from home using a PC or Mac and a modem. Ryer, The Internet Companion: A Beginner's Guide to Global Networking, Addison- Wesley, 1. For example, I. could say 'I have information about cows' and the word 'cows' would be. If you select. that word - - typically by clicking your mouse on it or pressing Enter if. Australia. It does not take much. I can then hop all over the world, following these. The two most popular are called Mosaic (for graphical terminals). If you have got one of these programs. Web immediately. If not, do what you can to get. It was only in beta test. I originally wrote this, and a bit buggy, but now it's my. You can get it via anonymous ftp from ftp. Turner. e- mail: sret. WWW: http: //www. Good places to find local internet providers are listed at the. Tinyfugue is a telnet client program which breaks the screen into. A specialized version exists where. The. specialized version is available for anonymous ftp from. FIBS. Lehett. Land- J Technologies. JLEHETT@GATE. NET. FIBS allows you to play backgammon. XFibs. graphical interface provides a mouse- driven board, which minimises text input. At the very end you'll also. FIBS is a vibrant and lively. With XFibs you'll only really use the text window occasionally because you can. XFibs you move your pieces with the. You can then release the left button to drop the. If the move is valid, XFibs will draw the piece at the new location. The left- hand die is the default first die of a. If the left- hand die can't move, XFibs will try. So If you have a roll in both combinations are legal. This is done by clicking your right mouse button again. This popup menu. changes according to what is going on. Now it says . Between games in a match it says . You may then save your. It also makes excellent use of sound to reinforce the backgammon. Instead of typing cryptic commands like 'm 2. The. user can select from two board sizes and choose which color and direction to. Real- time pip count information is also displayed. The user can. color code and keep private notes about other players (the color coding is also. Chat window). It. Fibs ala the bottom two windows in tinyfugue. I've run it on Dec. Stations, Sparc. Stations, HP 7. Alphas. TCL/TK is a. X. It is available. Most operations required to play a game can be executed using mouse. If you can connect to the Internet using Windows. Terminal, you can probably use FIBS/W. If you can find the. WINSOCK. DLL on your system, you can probably use FIBS/W. FIBS/W. requires version 3. Microsoft Windows, or any version of Windows. Workgroups or Windows/NT. FIBS/W will also run as a Windows application. OS/2 2. X. FIBS/W does not currently support OS/2 Warp, or Netcom. Netcruiser accounts (although Netcom shell accounts do work). The registration fee is. US$4. 0. This version of FIBS/W includes a Nag Screen (a mildly annoying dialog. Tcl, Tk and Expect. Normally, you have.
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