At the beginning "Man" created "Backgammon"
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| Burnt City, Zabol, Iran |
6000 years ago, in an ancient civilization from Iran, somebody invented a board game, the very first competitive game of two. He was intelligent, bored or just Lazy, we don't know. what we know, is that the very game created by this ancient genius, evoluted to become one of the most popular Board games of the world.
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| One of the Burnt city board games with dices and a checker, 1700 BC |
The very first board games that has been excavated, found in "Burnt city" near Zabol and "Halil River" near Jiroft, both located in contemporary east borders of Iran.
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| Halil river board game, about 3000 BC |
It seems that this board games, were just race games, ruled by four-sided dices.
These Board games had been developed to More complicated games with different type of checkers, boards and dices round the world. You may find very famous samples such as "Ur rocal board game" or "Senet" or some less famous discovered board games as "Khark Stone Board" or "Brädspel".
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| Brädspel backgammon |
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| Khark stone backgammon |
1500 years ago, "Bozorgmehr" the great Vezir of Anoushiravan, Greated six-side dice and developed the previous game in to what we known as backgammon. From this point in history, we have two dices, 30 checkers, 2 sides, four homes and 24 places for game. this way backgammon completely differed from chess and other games.
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| Illustration from Shah-name about Origin of Backgammon |
Since then, Back gammon traveled round the world and many cultures add some thing to the game. Romans, Greeks, Normans, English, American, French, Arab, African, Turks and many other cultures played backgammon. many of them created different games played by same set and different rules that made Back gammon one of the most Mindful, time t
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