Glossary

Anchor: This is the location on the board in which a square is occupied by 2 or more pieces, making them unable to be captured by the rival.

Barrier: The box or the point where there are 2 or more pieces which prevents the opponent forward.

Capture cards: It is when dealing with a box in a pawn of the opponent, capturing it.

Box: Is the name assigned to each of the 24 triangles that form the game board.

Betting Hub: This is a special die because sometimes called double, used to place bets doubles.

Eat: It refers to when you capture an opponent's piece and removed from the board. The opponent must re-enter the card before running movement.

Cover a tab: This is when you protect a form which is single, making the movement of one or more cards in that box.

Doubling Cube: This is the name commonly given to the hub of betting. (See definition above).

Fold: This is when the opponent is offered to double the bet.

Block: It's a tactic that caught the chips are alone in the opponent's home board.

Phase Switch: This is the stage of the game that it is not possible to capture more cards and the value of the dice may affect the rate at which you can get to remove all the chips.

Contact phase: This phase of the game in which the chips are overdue can not be captured at the moment.

Gammon: Refers to the heading in which the user loses the game failed to save his chips and made those in the inner board.

Jellyfish: A specially developed software to analyze the movements and positions in the game of backgammon.

Release tabs: It is when you remove a card from the board after it has completed the whole journey.

Play65: This is the pioneer web site regarding the game of online backgammon.

Jacoby rule: A rule which refers to a stipulation which states that during the game alone is worth one point those times have not used the doubling cube or cube doubled.

Snowie: This is a program which performs anailicis backgammon game.

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