Backgammon according to the normal movement rules. The first player to bear off all fifteen of his/her own checkers wins the game. If the opponent has not yet borne off any checkers when the game ends, the winner scores a "gammon", which counts for double stakes. If the opponent has not yet borne off any checkers and has some on the bar or in the winner's home board, the winner scores a "backgammon", which counts for triple stakes. To speed up match play and to provide an added dimension for strategy, a doubling cube is usually used. The doubling cube is
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",