Definition of "backgammon" [back•gam•mon]

• A board game for two persons, played with pieces whose moves are determined by throws of dice. (noun)

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• "Games and such … backgammon is huge here, you can get hand carved wooden boards, they play it constantly and they will win; p, almost everyone can play chess also, as well as the Russian version of checkers that is not too much different from the American version."
• "An entrepreneur Ashot Grigoryan won the first place in short backgammon tournament and a businessman Armen Patochyan took the first place in long one."
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