Backgammon

1......................................................................................The game of backgammon is a familiar sight in coffee shops across the Arab world. You will easily recognise it from the wooden box laid out with triangles and its thirty black and white pieces called ‘checkers’. It is one of the oldest board games in the world and it is thought that it probably started in Iraq around 5,000 years ago.2........................................................................................Pictures and documents from ancient times have been found which show that the Romans, the Ancient Greeks and the Ancient Egyptians played a version of backgammon. People in Iraq have even discovered a pair of ancient dice made from human bone! The rules of the game have changed over time and so have the materials that it is made from. In modern times the pieces are made from wood or plastic, not bone!3.............................................................................................There are different ways to play backgammon. In the simplest version, each player takes 15 checkers of the same colour: you put half on your side of the board, the other half on the opposite side. You then take turns to throw the dice and move your checkers across the board: the aim is to move all your checkers to your side of the board (and stop your partner doing so). Once your checkers are all in place, you may take them off the board by throwing certain numbers on the dice. The first player who takes all their checkers off the board wins the game. Match each paragraph with correct headingParagraph 1 : ......................................................................... History Rules Description Match each paragraph with correct headingParagraph 2 : ......................................................................... History Rules Description Match each paragraph with correct headingParagraph 3: ......................................................................... History Rules Description What do you need to do to win ? to move all checkers to move some of the checkers nothing move It probably started in .................................. Syria Iraq Saudia Arabia In modern times the pieces are made of gold silver wood or plastic