Chess is commonly believed to have originated in India during the Gupta empire,[15][16][17][18] where its early form in the 6th century was known as caturaṅga, which translates as "four divisions [of the military]" - infantry, cavalry, elephants, and chariotry, represented by the pieces that would evolve into the modern pawn, knight, bishop, and rook, respectively. Both the Persians and Arabs attribute the game of chess to the Indians.[19] In Sassanid Persia around 600 the name became shatranj and the rules were developed further. Shatranj was taken up by the Muslim world after the Islamic conquest of Persia, with the pieces largely retaining their Persian names. In Spanish "shatranj" was rendered as ajedrez, in Portuguese as xadrez, and in Greek as zatrikion, but in the rest of Europe it was replaced by versions of the Persian shāh ("king"), which was familiar as an exclamation and became our words "check and chess".[20] Murray theorized that this change happened from Muslim traders coming to European seaports with ornamental chess kings as curios before they brought the game of chess.[18] Knights Templar playing chess, Libro de los juegos, 1283. The game reached Western Europe and Russia by at least three routes, the earliest being in the 9th century. By the year 1000 it had spread throughout Europe.[21] Introduced into the Iberian Peninsula by the Moors in the 10th century, it was described in a famous 13th-century manuscript covering shatranj, backgammon, and dice named the Libro de los juegos. Another theory contends that chess arose from the game xiangqi (Chinese Chess) or one of its predecessors.[22]
it 5,000 years old
It's been around since 1150 AD.
ABPA Backgammon was created in 1979.
ABPA Backgammon happened in 1979.
Backgammon is a two-person board game.
ABPA Backgammon was created in 1979.
Backgammon, the board game, has no synonym. But, backgammon has different names in different languages: Tric-Trac in French, Puff or Poof in German, Gamao in Portuguese, Tavla (tables) in Turkish... Backgammon also has a second meaning of a triple score in the backgammon game.
Emotional Backgammon was created on 2003-##-12.
The duration of Emotional Backgammon is 1.55 hours.
Lewis Deyong has written: 'Playboy's Book of backgammon' -- subject(s): Backgammon 'Backgammon, learning to win'
Tim Holland - backgammon - died in 2010.
Tim Holland - backgammon - was born in 1931.
backgammon was created around 3000BC and chess was created around 1283AD
I met my fiance playing backgammon on the internet nearly 5 years ago.