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Jun. 10th, 2009|09:08 pm |
Uzbekistan. They play Nard or Narde, the originally Persian version of the game, which is also considered to be the Russian version of the game. Main differences to the Turkish one (Tavla, which I believe is identical to standard Backgammon) are that:
- you don't kick out the opponent, and a field is blocked when one checker is there
- you move in the same direction (counterclockwise), even though you start in different places on the board
- different starting position, with all a player's checkers on one field
- if I remember Dasha's instructions right (despite that I wasn't sober a single time when we played, cause we always played in that cute rock bar), there are no doubles
However, from what I've seen it's quite common in Russia to play the standard Turkish version of the game, but still call it "Narde".
And by the way, in Uzbekistan (and maybe elsewhere), there's a version of Narde that's played without dice - it works like Nard, but you tell the numbers you want to move. Sounds weird, but given that you block a field with only one checker, should be quite a strategic challenge.
Look how professional I sound, huh! And what does it help? I just lost 3 games to a newbie. |
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