Backgammon history dates back to ancient Mesopotamia, now what is today Iraq and Iran at the time of 3000 BC. Hence, the first versions of backgammon en route to Egypt, where the game was called in the Senate and the Roman Empire, which succeeded in spreading the game of backgammon in many parts of the world.
After the game Nard Persian spread in Asian countries, he returned to Europe. The first documentation of backgammon to play in England was held in 1025 in Codex Exoniensis. Historians believe that it is quite common to play backgammon, has been in the old English taverns, where the game was then known as both Nard and tables. Around the same time, the French were also backgammon time, they baptized Table Games “in place. The game quickly spread throughout Europe, arriving in Germany (where he was called Puff) in the 12th Century, and to Iceland in the 13th Century. Backgammon also successful in Italy, where he has been called Tavola Reale, Spain (Tables Reales), Czech (Vrhcaby), Turkey (backgammon), Greece (Tavli) and Sweden, which has received the board game of backgammon from 16 Century.
The game was so popular and heavily inspired backgammon that among members of the court of Louis IX of France was banned in 1254′s. Finally, backgammon, has also declared illegal a hobby in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth 1 during the 16th Century. Although the ban was certainly a blow to the backgammon game is flexible, fast, and defended himself once again with the British. In fact, this is the official name of backgammon in the mid-17th century, was designed. It is believed that the Saxon name, composed of two Saxon words “BAEC” means “back” and “New Here”, the “average game were responsible.” The first documented use of the word, the Oxford Dictionary published in English 1650th
In 1743, Jacquet received an additional boost when Sir Edmund Hoyle published the first English version dedicated to the game called a treatise on the game Back-Gammon.
The game was then played, virtually unchanged until some changes were registered in the United States. In 1920, the concept of the doubling cube in New York has created a backgammon player.
For decades, backgammon faded. In the 1960s, but the game was back and enjoy a period of progress in the strategy of backgammon, which lasted throughout the 1970s. Meanwhile, the first World Championships of Backgammon in Bahamas by Prince Alex Obelensky, sponsored a famous promoter context of the time. Competition is always the highest distinction in the backgammon games today.
Today enjoys worldwide popularity as backgammon internet backgammon, where everyone is playing with the free backgammon.
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