Backgammon is a race game; more specifically, a multiplex race game, as each player has multiple men that can be moved. Because of this, even though moves are based on dice throws, the game is a mixture of chance and strategy. The winner is the first player who gets all his or her men around and off the board.
Backgammon can trace its history back, through Nard and related games, to the Roman game of Ludus Duodecim Scriptorum, giving it something like a 1,600 year history.
The marquetry chess board I got several years ago actually has a backgammon board inside, and it came with men and dice!
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