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Attaining a Win At Backgammon Variant – Plakoto
April 1st, 2010 by Claudia
[ English ]

Plakoto a variant of Backgammon is really a well-known casino game in Greece. The motive behind betting Plakoto is to bring all your checkers around to your own home board and then get them off. The gambler who gets off all of his checkers first wins the casino game. This game is usually played along with the two other variants of backgammon, namely Fevga and Portes. Together these 3 games are called Tavli and are bet in sequence usually one after the other. They have matches of three, 5 or 7 items. A Bulgarian version of Plakoto is identified as Tapa.

Each and every gambler has 15 pieces to commence with. These checkers are placed on challenger’s 1-point. The players need to move their pieces in distinct direction about the Plakato board. At the commence of the game every gambler rolls 1 die and the player with the highest roll gets the chance to start. Unlike Backgammon the player has to again roll the dice to begin his first turn. A gambler who has won a game starts the next game. The number of details, or pips, or the places a gambler can proceed his pieces is decided by the roll of the dice.

In the game of web based backgammon Plakoto, a checker could be positioned only on an open point. An open position may be the 1 that is not occupied by 2 or much more pieces of the opponent. The numbers that appear right after tossing the 2 dices make separate moves .For instance, if a gambler rolls 4 and two, he may possibly move a piece 4 spaces to an open stage and 1 a lot more piece 2 spaces to an open place. A gambler also has an choice to move a single piece to a totla of six spaces to an open place the precondition for this single move is that the intermediate details (four or 2 spaces from the beginning place) must also be open.

The doubles in Plakoto are wagered twice. For instance, a toss of three-three means that the gambler can use the three’s 4 times. If it is possible the gambler must use both the numbers of the toss and all 4 numbers in the case he draws a double in the roll of dices.

Hitting is not allowed in the casino game of web backgammon Plakoto. In its place, if a player lands on a stage occupied by an challenger’s individual checker, the opposition can not move his piece unless the gambler moves his piece. In other words the challenger’s checker is trapped. A block is created by 2 checkers of the gambler lying on a stage or 1 of his checkers pinning the challenger’s checker.

Mother checker may be the last piece over a player’s beginning point. It’s incredibly critical to win a web backgammon Plakoto game. If the mother checker gets pinned by opponent’s checker prior to it has left the commencing place – the casino game is over and two points are lost. This specific guideline has an exemption if the opposition has his own mother checker at the starting stage. A game in which mother piece of both the players are pinned results in a tie.

Bearing off in the casino game of web based backgammon Plakoto starts right after a player has moved all of his fifteen checkers on his home board. A player can get off by rolling a number that corresponds to the stage on which the checker is placed. If there is no checker on the stage indicated by the roll, then the gambler has to generate a legal move using a checker over a higher-numbered level. If you can find no pieces on higher-numbered factors, the player must eliminate a checker from the highest place that has a checker. In this way he can get rid of all of his checkers from the board

The 1st player who bears off all his 15 checkers is declared as the winner of the game. If the losing player has successfully borne off at least one piece, he loses only 1 place; otherwise two things are lost.


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