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3D Backgammon Unlimited
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Version
1.0
The Backgammon, an immensely popular game for two
players, is a clever combination of luck and strategy
game that can be played under hundreds of codified
variants some of them dating from the high Egyptian
antiquity or even earlier like the beautiful Royal game
of Ur. The board consists of 24 numbered isosceles
triangles of alternative colors grouped by six into
four quadrants. The players face each other and each
side presents a home board and a outer board of six
points each. A cross side bar separates Home from Out
board and is used as a kind of jail to store the
captured checkers. Each player possesses 15 checkers.
The roll of a pair of dice determines how many steps
forward a player can move his/her checkers from the
Home board position to the Out board and bear them back
home. The first player to bear off all of his checkers
wins the match.
This game is superbly designed in 3D, with precious
textures for the best comfort of playing and learning.
It offers many sound and graphic options to create a
pleasant gaming atmosphere. Beginners will like the
intuitive interface, with an online Help menu always
accessible at a touch of the mouse, the capacity of
setting the level of the adversary while playing
against the computer. The opponent can be the computer
at various Elo levels, or another player, local or on a
LAN. You can create a game and invite another player
or join yourself into an opened game on the network.
You can rollback the ongoing game or save it to reload
later for replay. To play this game, you will need
Windows 9x or better on a 500Mhz processor, or an
equivalent, equipped with a 3D accelerated card
compatible DirectX 8 or better and 8 Mo of video
memory. It is very easy to install and uninstall the
game. This game will grow as the skills of the players
do, since TLK Games guarantees, for the registered
version of this game, a life long guarantee for updates.
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