Each electrode trailed a color-coded wire, which got plugged into what looked like a backgammon board.
The random element inherent in a dice roll makes backgammon a much better analogy for real-world mental problems.
Snug in your sleeper car, you can look forward to all those hours of contemplation, reading, working, backgammon, whatever.
In "Backgammon, Mayfair" (c. 1937) an elegant young couple sits on the floor near a fireplace and concentrates on the board.
Coffee houses were a new institution in which men met together to talk, listen to poets and play games like chess and backgammon.
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Today, the best backgammon programs are arguably as good as the top human players and all are self-teaching systems based on neural networks.
Seeing entries for Monopoly, Scrabble and Trivial Pursuit (three Parker Brothers' board games), I was immediately struck by the absence of chess and backgammon.
While his well-heeled acolytes peruse Borsheim's diamond clusters, outside in the mall, Buffett has invited some of the nation's bridge, backgammon and Scrabble champions to challenge and entertain his guests.
Objects buried with them include 30 gaming counters, which were possibly used for a game similar to backgammon, and placed with the bodies for entertainment during the journey to the afterlife.
While chess programs have played at a world-class level for two decades, backgammon software based on the same brute-force approach has never achieved more than a weak intermediate level of play.
In his day job David Nahmad is a risk-taker, trading millions of dollars in currencies and commodities, as well as betting hundreds of thousands on backgammon in Monte Carlo--he holds the 1996 world title.
Example: One interviewee used the fact that Morrill played backgammon to explain how to play poker, explaining that in backgammon all the pieces are visible to both players, while in poker, the information is hidden behind the cards.
Floating serenely in the Aegean Sea some 250 miles from the capital, Bozcaada constitutes a momentary pause in the clamour of modern life: a quiet, bucolic place of hidden beaches, cobbled alleys, whitewashed townhouses and old-timers playing backgammon on street corners.
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