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) Georgia, ifranjiah is played as elsewhere, but called "nardi". In Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia many experienced players also play long narde, which some see as requiring deeper strategy. Gul bara, sometimes referred to as "rosespring backgammon" or "crazy narde", is a variant where there is no hitting. In Greece, tables games are called tavli (related to the word "tavla", meaning "board" or "table" or "tawleh" from Arabic, and cognate to the Latin "tabula"). "Tavli" was first described in an epigram of the Byzantine Emperor Zeno (AD 476–481). There are three mainstream different games, portes, plakoto, and fevga: The three