Backgammon to bear off all of one's checkers, was also the same. Hitting a blot, reentering a piece from the bar, and bearing off, all followed the modern rules. The only differences with modern backgammon were the use of an extra die (three rather than two) and the starting of all pieces off the board (with them entering in the same way that pieces on the bar enter in modern backgammon). The name τάβλη is still used for backgammon in Greece, where it is frequently played in town plateias and cafes. The epigram of Zeno describes a particularly bad dice roll
Tables (board game) be traced to Medieval and Renaissance sources. Backgammon has been studied considerably by computer scientists, who have developed software that plays at the level of top human players. Tric-trac is a French variant of Backgammon. There are two main forms of the game, "le Grand Tric-trac" and "le Petit Tric-trac." In Tric-trac, the starting point is called a "talon", the points, or "fleches", are numbered to 12 on both sides of the board, with the 12th point on either side called the "coin de repos", or, simply, "coin". The 11th point (on either side) is often called "le case d'écolier",