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Backgammon faded from the stage of history after the Qianlong period in China, but in terms of the style of the Chinese and Western chess board, it can be said that the common board of backgammon is a wooden chess box or a leather board that can be rolled up, different from the Chinese dot checkers, backgammon checkers are extremely narrow and long triangles. But the number of chess blocks is the same as the western 24. Before the start to layout, put the 15 children placed, the two sides go in the opposite direction, walk with the number of dice, can eat each other, to the first fifteen children go to the end of the side for victory.

1st-2nd century Roman crystal dice, British Museum

In referring to the history of the development of backgammon, we have to mention one of the important props - dice, but also because of the participation of dice, so that the game of backgammon luck is greater than competitive skills, even if a party is in a weak position is very likely to win, and then in many places as a gambling game and this tool is inseparable. In China, Cao Zhi is regarded as the inventor of dice, which actually existed in ancient Egypt and ancient Rome. In Old Latin, dice were called alea, and the English aleatory, meaning "lucky," comes from dice.