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Backgammon from Mesopotamia to AI
Pick up a backgammon set and you are touching one of the oldest games still played anywhere on earth. The 24 points and 30 checkers describe a structure that has barely changed in two thousand years, and parts of it are older than the pyramids. Mesopotamian kings played a version.
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Backgammon from Mesopotamia to AI