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Every game has its specific words; this is not different in the case of backgammon either.
If you are a beginner, you might want to ask an experienced player to teach you.
If you find it hard to ask someone, or you just do not know anyone who plays backgammon, you can look up the specific words in a dictionary.
The perfect place to look up the terms used in backgammon is a backgammon glossary. |
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| A beginner might have big trouble understanding what his opponent says during a game of backgammon. There are a lot of specific terms used in the game, and a beginner might understand the basic meaning of such words, but he probably would not understand their meaning in backgammon. |
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Let us look at a few examples. We all know the meaning of the word bar; let us now see what it means in backgammon: the bar is a partition separating the inner and outer tables, not counted as a space itself. Ok, you might say this was easy, but a player should know all the specific words and the ‘dialects’ used. So let us now see how bar is called sometimes: rail, roof. Although not every specific word has synonyms, but you should know quite a few words before you can start to play. Actually a good backgammon glossary should contain more than three hundred words.
Do not worry; you will not have to learn by heart all the specific words used during a game of backgammon! Playing backgammon online has a huge advantage: you might keep a backgammon glossary open in another window or tab, so you could take a look whenever you need to. This might come in handy for most of the beginners, because it is really hard to learn both the rules and the specific jargon of backgammon. If you are not playing online, but with a more experienced friend, you can ask him, or you can still take a look into the glossary. If you are using a backgammon glossary, you will not need to learn all the specific words, it is enough if you learn the basic words used during a game. If you understand the basics, you will not have to look up a word ever minute in the glossary. So it shortens your game if you have studied the basics before starting a game. A backgammon glossary is not only for beginners! It might happen that even the experienced backgammon players do not understand a word. A glossary would come in handy in such a situation. Another situation in which a backgammon glossary could really help you is when you are looking at two professional players. You might not understand everything they say, and in some cases you might not be able to deduce it from their moves. In these cases you can check for the word in a backgammon glossary.
When you learn a new game, it is not enough to learn only the rules of the game. As already said, every game has a specific jargon, so if you want to become a good player, you should understand and use the specific words. A backgammon glossary comes in very handy, because the words are listed just like they are listed in a dictionary, so you will be able to quickly check the meanings. It is easy to find a backgammon glossary nowadays, because there are many glossaries on the internet, but look for one which contains at least three hundred words. If you will find a good glossary, you will be able to look up even those words which are use only rarely, let us say that only professionals use them. If you have found yourself a good glossary, you should check it from time to time, not only to learn, but you should take a look in it, because most of the backgammon dictionaries get constantly improved. This means that you might been looking for a specific word and did not find anything, but you might find an explanation on the next day. Also, you usually can write an email to the person who created the glossary, asking him to add the word to the glossary.
The conclusion is that although beginners use the backgammon glossaries, it is not created only for them. Everyone should use a glossary from time to time! So do not forget to check back to that good glossary you have found, and check the new words! If you did not find a good glossary, you should start to look for one now, because now you know exactly what you are looking for. Good luck! |
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