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Identifier: backgammon00cady (find matches)
Title: Backgammon
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Cady, Alice Howard. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Backgammon
Publisher: New York, American sports publishing company

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e caster must abide by his call if the dice are subse-quently touched. PLAYING. 8. If the caster touches one of his own men he must play it,unless, prior to touching it, he intimates his intention of ad-justing it. If an adverse man, or a man that cannot be playedis touched, there is no penalty. 9. A man is not played until it is placed on a point andquitted. 10. The caster must play the whole throw if he can ; inbearing, if a mar is played, and another man or the same manis then borne from the highest occupied point, the highestnumber thrown is deemed to be borne. * It is a disadvantage to play with too few men. BACKGAMMON. 37 11. If a wrong number of points is played, the adversarymay require the right number to be played, but he must do sobefore making his next throw. BEARING. 12. If a man is up and others are borne before the one up isentered, the men so borne must be entered again, as well asthe man taken up. PROBLEMS ILLUSTRATING THE GAME, Taken from Berkeley. No. I.BLACK, OR B.
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WHITE, OR A. 38 BACKGAMMON. Suppose the men to be placed as shown in this diagram, whohas the better game, A or B ? A has, because he ought to play, if possible, an ace or deucefrom Bs ace point in order to take possession of Bs deuce ortrois point, or both, as occasion may offer; and, since he isalready in possession.of Bs quatre point, he may easily bringthese men away, if he finds it necessary, and he will also havea resting place by the convenience of that point, which at alltimes during the game will give him an opportunity of runningfor the hit or staying to worry B, if he thinks proper, whereas,B cannot so readily come from As trois point. No. II.BLACK, OR A.

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