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Egyptian tâb is played by two players on a board, often delineated at the ground. The board is four squares wide, and usually an odd number of squares long, usually from 7 to 15, but formerly up to 29 squares. Numbering the four rows 1, 2, 3 and 4, from the start one player has one (nominally) white
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A piece moving to a square occupied by one or more enemy pieces will knock those pieces off the board. A piece moving to a square occupied by one or more friendly pieces is placed on top of those, and they move as one piece thereafter. If such a stack moves to a row where one of the pieces has been
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before, the stack is reduced to just one piece, the other pieces being removed from the board. However, the player is not required to utilize a throw leading to such move. A tâb throw can be used to break up a stack so that the pieces move individually again.
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are used as dice. The flat sides are (nominally) white, and the rounded sides are (nominally) black. The value of a throw depends on the number of black and white sides showing, as indicated in the following table.
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is played. The rules and boards can vary widely across the region though almost all consist of boards with three or four rows. A reference to "al-tâb wa-l-dukk" (likely a similar game) occurs in a poem of 1310.
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piece in each field of row 1, and the other a (nominally) black piece in each field of row 4. The pieces may be stones or made from burnt clay. In Egypt, the pieces are referred to as
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The approximate probabilities shown are based on the assumption that the black and white sides have equal probabilities, which typically is correct to within a few percent.
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in addition to moving it one field ahead. Typically all initial tâbs are used to convert pieces, and only later are tâbs used for other purposes.
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The pieces move as shown in the diagram, here shown for "White" starting in its home row A-I. The other player ("Black" starting in home row
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Tâb board, showing paths for one player. Blue = standard path; Orange = path available under certain restrictions; Dotted = choice of paths.
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551:"An Arab game in the North Pole?"
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149:running-fight board game
596:Traditional board games
204:in Egypt in the 1820s.
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71:30 seconds - 1 minute
499:Lane, Edward William
558:Board Games Studies
521:Board Games Studies
202:Edward William Lane
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50:Running-fight game
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79:5–60 minutes
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494:(in Danish)
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177:West Africa
112:probability
590:Categories
477:References
219:As in the
212:, meaning
121:Sîg, Deleb
68:Setup time
46:Board game
580:1566-1962
543:1566-1962
351:Christian
246:White up
179:and from
169:West Asia
54:Dice game
501:(1860),
398:See also
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227:and the
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155:(mostly
118:Synonyms
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100:Strategy
91:rolling)
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185:Somalia
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167:) and
153:Muslim
96:Skills
84:Chance
42:Genres
554:(PDF)
517:(PDF)
430:Notes
414:Senet
353:to a
306:Name
266:Move
231:game
225:Senet
223:game
189:deleb
576:ISSN
566:ISBN
539:ISSN
529:ISBN
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301:Yes
210:kelb
173:Iran
163:(as
157:Arab
89:dice
382:a-i
370:a-i
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340:25%
337:38%
334:25%
313:Tâb
292:Yes
289:Yes
233:Yut
214:dog
183:to
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144:ṭāb
136:طاب
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20:Tâb
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