Succeeding At Backgammon Style – Plakoto
Posted in Backgammon on 03/24/2010 04:21 pm by Madisyn
Plakoto a variant of Backgammon is really a popular casino game in Greece. The motive behind wagering Plakoto is to bring all your pieces around to your own home board and then get them off. The gambler who gets off all of his pieces 1st wins the game. This casino game is usually played along using the two other versions of backgammon, namely Fevga and Portes. Together these 3 games are known as Tavli and are bet in order usually one soon after the other. They have matches of three, 5 or 7 things. A Bulgarian version of Plakoto is known as Tapa.
Each player has 15 checkers to begin with. These pieces are placed on opposition’s one-point. The players need to move their checkers in different direction about the Plakato board. At the commence of the casino game every gambler rolls 1 dice and the gambler using the highest roll gets the chance to start off. Unlike Backgammon the gambler has to again roll the dice to begin his first turn. A player who has won a casino game starts the next game. The number of details, or pips, or the places a player can proceed his pieces is decided by the roll of the dice.
In the casino game of internet backgammon Plakoto, a checker might be positioned only on an open point. An open point is the 1 which is not occupied by 2 or more checkers of the opponent. The numbers that appear after rolling the two dices generate separate moves .For example, if a gambler rolls four and 2, he may well move a piece 4 spaces to an open point and 1 additional piece two spaces to an open stage. A gambler also has an option to proceed a single checker to a totla of six spaces to an open level the precondition for this single proceed is that the intermediate details (4 or 2 spaces from the commencing place) must also be open.
The doubles in Plakoto are played twice. For example, a toss of 3-3 means that the player can use the three’s 4 times. If it is possible the player must use both the numbers of a toss and all 4 numbers in the case he draws a double in the toss of dices.
Hitting just isn’t allowed in the casino game of web-based backgammon Plakoto. In its place, if a gambler lands on the level occupied by an opposition’s single checker, the opponent cannot proceed his checker unless the gambler moves his checker. In other words the opposition’s checker is trapped. A block is created by two pieces of the player lying on the position or 1 of his pieces pinning the opponent’s checker.
Mom piece is the last checker over a player’s commencing place. It’s extremely crucial to win a web based backgammon Plakoto game. If the mom checker gets pinned by opposition’s piece prior to it has left the commencing place – the game is over and 2 points are lost. This specific guideline has an exception if the opponent has his very own mom piece at the beginning stage. A casino game in which mother checker of both the players are pinned results in a tie.
Bearing off in the game of web-based backgammon Plakoto starts immediately after a gambler has moved all of his 15 pieces on his home board. A gambler can get off by tossing a number that corresponds to the place on which the piece is placed. If there is no checker about the point indicated by the toss, then the player has to generate a legal move using a piece on the higher-numbered point. If there are no checkers on higher-numbered items, the player must eliminate a piece from the highest position that has a piece. In this way he can eliminate all of his checkers from the board
The very first gambler who gets off all his fifteen pieces is declared as the winner of the game. If the losing gambler has successfully borne off at least one piece, he loses only 1 stage; otherwise two details are lost.