![]() This is the standard tactic in games of contrary movement such as Backgammon where players move their pieces in opposing directions. Papahristou & Refanidis (2013) categorise tables games by the type of attacking tactics permitted during the game: Hitting games The group includes the old German games of Langer Puff (known confusingly in English as German or Russian Backgammon) and Buffa, the Italian game of Buffa Cortese, the Spanish games of Laquet and Pareia de Entrada, the continental game of Verquere, French Jacquet, Turkish Moultezim and a curious Icelandic game called Chase the Girls. Players move in the same direction around the board and that direction is always anticlockwise. ![]() Like other members of the tables family, games in this last group are often mistaken for Backgammon or assumed to be its variants, yet the direction of movement and hence play is quite different. The group also includes Acey Deucey, known as Gegenpuff in German-speaking countries, Plakota, the ' English Game', the Spanish games of Emperador, Quinze Tablas and Todas Tablas, the Italian games of Tavole Reales and Testa, and the French games of Tieste, Impérial and Trictrac. Some start with all pieces off the board, others with a fixed starting layout, but the aim in every case is to race them around the board in opposite directions and be first to bear them off. This is the group to which Backgammon belongs. Most of these games are simple pursuits suitable for children. Examples include Alfonso's Los Doze Canes also called Los Doze Hermanos, the English games of Doublets and Catch Dolt, the French games Renette, Tables Rabattues and Paumecary, the Icelandic game of Ofanfelling and the Levantine game of Eureika. Instead pieces are entered or borne off or both, the aim being to be the first player to do so. ![]() Parlett (1999) identifies three different modes of movement in tables games: Games without movement Ī small number of tables games involve no actual movement of pieces around the board. Tables games may be classified by movement or by tactics.
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