Backgammon Paintaneti
Mbiri ya backgammon, masewera akale kwambiri odziwika, ndi yosangalatsa yomwe idayamba pafupifupi zaka 5,000 zapitazo ku Mesopotamia. Mitundu yambiri yamasewera idatengera zikhalidwe zina m’mbiri yonse ya backgammon. Ofukula za m’mabwinja akupitilizabe kupeza masewera ambiri ofanana m’mabwinja azikhalidwe zakale pomwe amafufuza mbiri yochititsa chidwi ya mbuyo.
Dzina lenileni la backgammon limachokera ku mawu achi Welsh omwe amatanthauza ‘nkhondo yankhondo.’ Komabe, mbiri ya backgammon ikuwonetsa mayina ndi mitundu yosiyanasiyana. Olemekezeka komanso akapolo ku Egypt ndi Greece adasewera sewerolo lotchedwa, ‘senat.’ Aroma adasintha kuchuluka kwa dayisi kuchoka pa awiri kufika pa atatu ndikuwatcha ‘bac gamen’ kapena ‘masewera abwerera.’ Kuchokera pa chitukuko cha Roma, backgammon idasamukira ku Persia, komwe idaseweredwa ndi ma dayisi awiri pamasewera otchedwa ‘Takhteh Nard’ kapena ‘Battle on Wood.’ Munthawi ya Nkhondo Zamtanda, asitikali a Anglo Saxon ndi amalonda adasewera nyimbo ina yotchedwa ‘Tables’ kapena ‘Tabula.’
M’mbiri yonse ya backgammon, Mpingo unkayesa kangapo kuletsa masewerawa, koma nthawi zonse adalephera. Kadinala Woolsey, wa m’zaka za zana la 16, adalamula kuti matabwa onse awotchedwe, natcha masewerawa ‘zopusa za satana.’ Kuwotcha matabwawo kunalibe ntchito, komabe, chifukwa mtundu uliwonse wamatabwa unkatha kujambulidwa ndi dothi kapena mchenga ndikusewera ndimiyala yaying’ono. Nthawi zambiri makoswe anali opangidwa ndi manja ndipo anali ochepa okwanira kubisalira munthu kapena kubisala m’nyumba ya wina. Kuphatikiza apo, a Chingerezi anali anzeru kwambiri ndipo adaganiza zobisa bolodi lam’mbuyo ngati buku lopinda. luso lawo labwino likuwonekerabe pagulu lomwe timagwiritsa ntchito masiku ano.
A Edmund Hoyle, wolemba komanso wothamanga wotchuka, adalemba malamulowo komanso mbiri ya backgammon m’ma 1700. A Colonist ochokera ku England adabweretsa backgammon kunyumba zawo ku America, komanso chess ndi masewera ena apanthawiyo. Ngakhale masewera a backgammon adasiya kutchuka m'nthawi ya Victoria, adawonekeranso mwachangu m’zaka za zana la 20. Pakadali pano, wopanga wosadziwika adapanga kabokosi kowirikiza, komwe kumapereka mwayi kwa osewera mwayi wochulukitsa kubetcha kwawo koyamba ndi kuchuluka kwa kiyubiki yowirikiza. Zachidziwikire, njira zina ndi luso zimafunikira musanagwiritse ntchito kiyibodi yobwereza.
Masewera, mabuku, magazini, ndi zibonga tsopano ndi gawo la mbiri ya backgammon. Kuyambitsidwa kwa masewerawa pa intaneti kwachulukitsa kutchuka kwawo kwambiri. Backgammon ndimasewera othamanga, ovuta, komanso osangalatsa aluso komanso mwayi.