Tavli games3/12/2024 ![]() The chief differences with modern backgammon were the use of three rather than two dice, the starting of all pieces off the board (with them entering in the same way that pieces on the bar enter in modern backgammon), and naturally no doubling cube (which was introduced in the 1920s). ![]() Hitting a blot, reentering a piece from the bar, and bearing off, all had the same rules as today. As in backgammon the object of the game was to be the first to bear off all of one's checkers, of which there were, as in backgammon, fifteen per player. The board was the same with 24 points, 12 on each side, players moved their pieces in opposite directions, and the dice were cubes as today. Roman Tabula (Byzantine Greek: Tάβλη) was nearly identical to modern backgammon it was described in an epigram of the Byzantine Emperor Zeno (AD 476–481).
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