[bksvol-discuss] Re: Backgammon - your input is requested
- From: "Lora" <loravara@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 04:10:35 -0700
Hi, Jamie,
Oh, this backgammon book looks like quite the challenge for you. Thank you
for being willing to take it on.
No, you don't misremember backgammon. But one person always had to move
clockwise around the board, and the other always moved counterclockwise. So
apparently the book is showing it from the counterclockwise perspective.
That's fine.
Your method of describing the board looks fine to me. I might want you to
indicate only the points that had pieces in the diagram, with no need to
indicate the points that are blank. That's what each space on the board is
called, by the way, a point. So, if they had pieces on points 12, 9, 7, 5
and 3 in the current diagram, I would prefer only those points listed in the
picture description, with no need to indicate the empty points, but this is
a preference thing.
As to how to indicate the moves, perhaps with something like White moves 1
piece from 6 to 4. But no, if we're always following one color in the
example, and we know what color is on each point, you probably don't need to
indicate the color again in the move description.
Good luck!
Lora
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Backgammon - your input is requested
I have started scanning the Beginning Backgammon book. I haven't played
backgammon in years, but the book is confusing me. I remember playing so
that you moved all of your pieces in a clockwise fashion towards your side
of the board, all the way to your left. Once all of your pieces were in that
section you could start removing them.
The book shows that you will move all of your pieces in a counter clockwise
fashion towards your side of the board, but all the way to your right.
Is this right? Have I always played the game wrong? Or should I find a
different book?
The second question is there are lots of diagrams of the board and how you
could move.
The have the board numbered 1-12 on each side, white side and black side.
Then they show how many pieces are on each (whatever they call it) slot
1-12. I plan to describe it something like this and I want to know if this
will work for the reader:
(where 1-6 is the "inner table" where once you get all of your pieces there
you can start taking them off)
Black side:
12 - 5 white pieces
11
10
9
8 - 4 black pieces
7
6 - 4 black pieces
5 - 1 white pieces
4 - 1 black piece
3
2 - 1 black piece
1
Diagram shows that one piece from 6 moves to 4.
White side:
12 - 4 black pieces
11
10
9
8 - 2 white pieces
7
6 - 3 white pieces
5 - 2 white pieces
4
3 - 2 white pieces
2
1 - 1 black piece
Diagram shows one piece moves from 1 to 4
Will this work for everybody? Is there a better way to describe to see what
the diagram shows? Do you need to know the color of the pieces when the
diagram shows they are moving or can you go to the list of what is on the
diagram and know the color?
Anything else I ought to know?
Jamie in Michigan
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