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Backgammon Hitting Eating and Killing Can you change someone prejudice about the backgammon game by switching one word in backgammon terminology? Maybe when you are five years old, older than that, you will have to work harder to prove that backgammon is not something people do in their geriatric years.
Jack, the five years old son of Sam, one of the three hosts of The Morning Show (broadcasts online), got hooked on backgammon once he learned that "killing" is what a player does, and should do, to get the opponent's single checkers out of the way, usually known as "hitting", so he suggests games manufacturer to innocent terms as checkmate and bingo to “death grip" and “slay”.
"My attempts to explain how this was not a good strategy…well those were useless because he was happy “killing” my pieces. Sadly for me it proved to be an effective strategy…" he describes his son offensive play, a commonly advised and practiced strategy among more mature and experienced backgammon players.
Funny, in most languages the backgammon term that describes the act of moving another player's checker from a point to the bar has a violent meaning: hit, dash, strike, punch, beat, except for Italian and Hebrew, in which it is known as eating, not a very vegetarian term as well. Yet, backgammon is usually linked with retirement age, so in some places, skipping lunch in favor of playing backgammon, you will be publicly scorned.
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