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Sunday, February 24. 2008
Plakoto (Πλακωτό)
Plakoto is the newest addition to the list of games which can be played at the BrainKing game site. Actually, the real newest one is Knight Fight but since it is not released to public yet (game model tests are still being performed), Plakoto is more important at the moment.
The reason why I am writing about Plakoto (which is also known as Tapa in Bulgaria) today is that I have had no time to post the game rules to BrainKing yet, so people who never heard of this very interesting backgammon variant before could be a little confused.
Please visit this site for the complete rules of Plakoto.
As you can see, Plakoto is one of three backgammon games popular in Greece, the other two are called Portes and Fevga. The three games together are called Tavli and are usually played one after the other in matches of three, five, or seven points. BrainKing already has Portes (because it is just a normal backgammon without a doubling cube) and since we want to implement Fevga as well, our site could become interesting to Greek players soon. And, as I hope, maybe some of them would finish the unfinished Greek localization of BrainKing.
From my personal point of view, Plakoto's pinning feature is something what people, who never played this game before, must get used to first. But it is the great thing and I love it.
Although BrainKing is mostly focused on chess and variants, we need this kind of refresh, from time to time.
The reason why I am writing about Plakoto (which is also known as Tapa in Bulgaria) today is that I have had no time to post the game rules to BrainKing yet, so people who never heard of this very interesting backgammon variant before could be a little confused.Please visit this site for the complete rules of Plakoto.
As you can see, Plakoto is one of three backgammon games popular in Greece, the other two are called Portes and Fevga. The three games together are called Tavli and are usually played one after the other in matches of three, five, or seven points. BrainKing already has Portes (because it is just a normal backgammon without a doubling cube) and since we want to implement Fevga as well, our site could become interesting to Greek players soon. And, as I hope, maybe some of them would finish the unfinished Greek localization of BrainKing.
From my personal point of view, Plakoto's pinning feature is something what people, who never played this game before, must get used to first. But it is the great thing and I love it.
Although BrainKing is mostly focused on chess and variants, we need this kind of refresh, from time to time.
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<i>The three games together are called Tavli and are usually played one after the other in matches of three, five, or seven points.</i>
Does that mean that three consecutive matches are played, one of Plakoto, one of Portes and one of Fevga? Or that in one match of seven points the games alternate Plakoto-Portes-Fevga-Plakoto-etc.? Sort of a mixed game match? That would be interesting!
Does that mean that three consecutive matches are played, one of Plakoto, one of Portes and one of Fevga? Or that in one match of seven points the games alternate Plakoto-Portes-Fevga-Plakoto-etc.? Sort of a mixed game match? That would be interesting!
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Yes, that's how it works.
See this page: http://bkgm.com/variants/Tavli.html
See this page: http://bkgm.com/variants/Tavli.html
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I would like to propose a fast adaptation of Knight Fight, this time on a smaller board, 8x8 ... It was suggested by some players that 8x8 may have some advantage over 10x10 board ... frankly, it was my original idea which I gave up for a bigger board due to elegant usage of all digits from 0-9 ... Board 8x8 has its own limitations because the numbers with digits 7,8,9 cannot have their own mirrors ... so, I had to modify some usage of these numbers ... Rules are basically the same as for Knight Fight so let me talk about differences:
NAME OF THE GAME: "Knigts of Fury"
Out of 64 numbers there are:
40 numbers that have their mirrors (example: 34-43)
18 numbers that do not have their mirrors (example: 27-72)
5 doubled numbers (11,22,33,44,55)
1 STRANGE number, namely 56 ... which for this game is attached to doubled numbers ... that's the only number that doesn't have 7,8, or 9 in it, but still its mirror goes beyond the set of numbers from 1-64 ...
Management of these sets:
-Numbers with mirrors behave exactly like in Knight FIght ...
(mirror is taken out of the board)
-Numbers without mirrors behave exactly like doubled numbers in Knight Fight (after jumping on non-mirror numbers, player is asked to choose another non-mirror number to be taken out of the board) ...
-5 doubled plus number 56 ( there is no consequance after jumping on these numbers)
***
This game is very aggressive and fast moving due to relatively large number of non-mirror numbers and list of choices we will have ... board is smaller and this also contributes to the pace of this game ...
Hope you will like it.
Regards,
Andy Lewicki.
NAME OF THE GAME: "Knigts of Fury"
Out of 64 numbers there are:
40 numbers that have their mirrors (example: 34-43)
18 numbers that do not have their mirrors (example: 27-72)
5 doubled numbers (11,22,33,44,55)
1 STRANGE number, namely 56 ... which for this game is attached to doubled numbers ... that's the only number that doesn't have 7,8, or 9 in it, but still its mirror goes beyond the set of numbers from 1-64 ...
Management of these sets:
-Numbers with mirrors behave exactly like in Knight FIght ...
(mirror is taken out of the board)
-Numbers without mirrors behave exactly like doubled numbers in Knight Fight (after jumping on non-mirror numbers, player is asked to choose another non-mirror number to be taken out of the board) ...
-5 doubled plus number 56 ( there is no consequance after jumping on these numbers)
***
This game is very aggressive and fast moving due to relatively large number of non-mirror numbers and list of choices we will have ... board is smaller and this also contributes to the pace of this game ...
Hope you will like it.
Regards,
Andy Lewicki.
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