Play Backgammon for free. The software is downloadable and has a chat feature included when playing against other players. Tournaments can also be played for Fun. To start playing simply download and open a new table or join a table.
Backgammon History
Backgammon has been played for thousands of years all over the world. Most leaders and emperors played as a symbol of elegance and aristocracy.
Primitive history reveals that the ancient ancestry of Egypt, Rome, Sumeria and Persia started the game thousands of years back in different shapes and forms. It later got improvised in England in the seventeenth century. The 1920s witnessed the revolutionary change in the game in the form of the ‘doubling cube'. It regained its popularities in the Seventies and finally again in the Nineties due to the Internet era. For more than a decade, online Backgammon has been in its zenith of popularity.
There are different opinions regarding its classification. Some people believe it derives from "Baec", meaning back and "Gamen", which means game. Others believe that it might have been derived from "Back", which means little and "Gammon", meaning battle. However, today what we see as Backgammon is a refined version and combination of some famous ancient games like Roman Tabula, Egyptian Senet and Asian Nard.
