Backgammon Glossary

Glossary

The most complete glossary of backgammon terms

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One-Point Match

A backgammon variant where the goal is to be the first player to bear off all of your checkers. There is no doubling cube and no bonus for gammons or backgammons (2). Since you never lose more than one point (4), back games are more of an option in this variant than in regular backgammon. See posts by Lou Poppler and Bernhard Kaiser.

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Acting Captain

In a chouette, the crew member who plays for the team against the box after the original captain has declined box's double and is no longer in the game.

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