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Winning At Backgammon Variant – Plakoto
March 23rd, 2010 by Kaitlynn
[ English ]

Plakoto a variant of Backgammon is really a well-known casino game in Greece. The motive behind wagering Plakoto is to bring all your pieces around to your personal home board and then get them off. The player who gets off all of his pieces first wins the casino game. This casino game is usually enjoyed along with the two other versions of backgammon, namely Fevga and Portes. Together these three games are known as Tavli and are bet in series usually 1 immediately after the other. They have matches of three, 5 or 7 details. A Bulgarian version of Plakoto is known as Tapa.

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

In the game of internet backgammon Plakoto, a piece may be positioned only on an open position. An open stage may be the one which is not occupied by two or much more pieces of the opposition. The numbers that appear after tossing the two dices produce separate moves .As an example, if a gambler rolls 4 and 2, he may well proceed a checker four spaces to an open stage and one a lot more checker two spaces to an open level. A gambler also has an option to proceed a single piece to a totla of six spaces to an open place the precondition for this single move is that the intermediate things (4 or 2 spaces from the beginning place) must also be open.

The doubles in Plakoto are wagered twice. As an example, a toss of 3-3 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 toss of dices.

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

Mom checker may be the last checker on the gambler’s beginning point. It’s extremely critical to win a online backgammon Plakoto game. If the mom checker gets pinned by opponent’s checker prior to it has left the starting stage – the casino game is over and two details are lost. This specific guideline has an exception if the challenger has his personal mother checker at the starting stage. A casino game in which mother piece of both the players are pinned results in a tie.

Bearing off in the game of web based backgammon Plakoto starts right after a gambler has moved all of his fifteen checkers on his home board. A gambler can bear off by rolling a number that corresponds to the point on which the piece is placed. If there is no piece on the stage indicated by the roll, then the gambler has to make a legal proceed using a piece over a higher-numbered point. If you’ll find no pieces on higher-numbered details, the gambler must remove a checker from your highest position that has a checker. In this way he can eliminate all of his checkers from the board

The very first player who gets off all his 15 checkers is declared as the winner of the game. If the losing player has successfully borne off at least 1 checker, he loses only one position; otherwise two things are lost.


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