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Backgammon (7)

7th History of Backgammon:

Edmond Hoyle and the modern Backgammon

7. Catch Edmond Hoyle's Attention: Hoyle died in 1769, long before

most of the games played today were invented. He wrote books on just

five games in his lifetime, so the odds are against most games making

this connection. Happily for Backgammon, Hoyle was not only a devotee

of the game, he also had many ideas about how it should be played.

Edmond Hoyle, in fact, turned out to be the Alexander Cartwright of

Backgammon. Just as Cartwright in the 1840s codified the laws of

baseball, Hoyle in 1746 did the same for Backgammon in his first book

of games. Most of Hoyle's rules of play are still in force (as are

most of Cartwright's).

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The modern game began with Hoyle, who had developed considerable clout

in the game world by 1746. When he put together the hodge-podge of

rules governing the game and decreed, among other things, that

doublets should be played twice and that the scoring should include

such subdivisions as backgammon, gammon, and hits, people listened.

And played.

Next: Pump Up the Volume with the Americans (This will be the last

post regarding about some history of Backgammon.)

posted by Hawk @ 8:43 PM 2 comments links to this post

2 Comments:

At 10:15 PM, Blogger ernesto esteves said...

Hi,

That picture in my web page is in down town Lisbon.

Big Hug

At 11:00 PM, Blogger Hawk said...

Thanks Ernesto.

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