How to play Mahbusa (Middle-Eastern Backgammon variant)
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- Learn how to play Mahbusa, a variant of the classic backgammon game that comes from the Middle-East. If you’re looking to change up your backgammon experience, this is a great way to do it.
If you want to skip the intro: 3:34
Texting from Turkey/ Antalya.
Nice to see this type of backgammon showing by a different culture.
Here in Antalya we have some friends and many time we’re playing that type of backgammon. We call it ‘hapis’ (imprisonment).
It’s kind of strategy play; has deeper ways, tough sides etc.
Not easy like classical backgammon.
But your explained rules are little different from us. We start it from 1st step inside, not outside. And, haber not the other dices (red ones). We have just one couple of dices.
Locking the opponent checker is same here.
Well, nice to see it in another culture..
Here also many backgammon players have no idea of that type of play which as totally different from the classic backgammon. The classic one getting bored me now.
I have a Master of all masters here who gave lessons to me..
That play is kind of a war strategy; attack, defense, ambush, hostages and knockout 😂
You should set all the pieces on 1 not outside the board at the begining , and start counting accordingly .
in my family we call it tawla
I’m Palestinian Jordanian. I play mahbousi for over 30 years and with Syrians Lebanese Jordanian I never seen doubles played like that. It’s wrong. When you got .2 red double @ 16:(5 you moved too far. It should not be more that 8. You can play 1 checker to move 8 positions and your done or 1 checker 6 spots the other 2 or 2 checkers at 4 each
Yes, you're correct. But in the US we sometimes play a rule called "Acey Deuce," which means basically "onesie-twosie." It's more common to use acey-deuce in standard, Western-style backgammon (with prearranged starting places). It's not a rule that is played in traditional Middle-Eastern backgammon games like mahbusa, but we've added it to our personal game as a house rule.
Shukrahn. This game is popular with my Arabic friends at the United Nations like Doctor Akhtar et al; also Abbas.
Well hopefully now you can play with them, if you didn't already know how! Thanks for watching!
This is known as the "Tapa" (Plug, stopper, cork) at least here in Bulgaria I can assume the name will be similar for other Slavic nations. The only change is that all your pieces are located on the first field, which will mean that you start your count with the second field and number 6 is just outside of the rectangular you put your pieces in. I did not understand how you rolled 1 and 2 and managed to get to the opponents field at 6:25 . At minute 13 you also rolled 1 and 2, then continued to do random stuff. Please explain. Then at 13:36 you rolled 5 and 1, you got a piece in on 5 and said you don't have moves you should have done the same in the 1 position. You can't just not play a dice, you are obliged to if you can.
Thanks for the comment. When I rolled the 1 and 2, that's called "acey deuce," (meaning "ace"=1 and "deuce"=2) and it's common in Western-style gameplay to use acey deuce as a sort of "super double," meaning that you get to choose which number you want to double. I know that's not a thing in traditional Mahbusa, but as I mentioned in the beginning of the video at about 3:51, it's a thing that we've chosen to include when my partner and I play together.
As for the bit at 13:36, I'd rolled a 5 and 1, and because we weren't starting all of our pieces on the 1 space, I counted that first space as the "1," and from there the only place I could move was 5 spaces away, which is the 6 space. Does that make sense? I think the difference is that we were taught Mahbusa with all of the pieces off the board, and you learned it with all the pieces on the 1 space. If I had started with all the pieces on the 1 space, you're absolutely right, I would have been able to move another piece.
@@NorthWriter Thanks for clarifying. I actually googled the "acey deuce" and it seems to be a rule that I did not know. So the two versions definitely have differences. I''ll try this version with my friend soon.
Do you need exacts to get in?
Yeah, as far as rolling off the board at the end, it's the same as western backgammon. So if you have a piece on the 6 space and the 1 space, and you roll a 5 and a 2, you will have to move the piece on the 6 space five spaces and then put it in. So you'd be left with one remaining piece on the 1 space.
I'm Lebanese and I've learned how to play Backgamon via my dad whonused tonpkay with his dad and thats the only version we ever played and the one we learn when we're young, a way more exciting way to play in my opinion, happy to see someone talka abt it online
That's awesome! What a fun memory to have with family, too. Glad you liked the video!