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Within the Rules section, the terms "piece" and "checker" are used interchangebly and inconsistently. One term should be used within the section (if not the entire article) unless it is for the purpose of distinction or historical discussion.
Given the different names for the backgammon board piece, the generic name "piece" would be suitable over the relatively modern American English term "checker" PaulLandolt (talk) 16:53, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The proposed derivation of backgammon from back and game appears to be tentative. An equally if not more likely origin could be back and gammon, gammon being derived from jambe, French for leg, which itself goes back to Latin, gamba, for leg. Backgammon has two legs, from one end of the board to the other on each player's side and then back again. Jontel (talk) 17:53, 27 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Without a source, this would be original reasarch. Sources seem to go with the "game" etymology.
Until recently, this article described the automatic doubles rule as the "Murhphy Rule"
I was unable to find any reliable source that called it that, although there were plenty of hits citing this page. Lacking success, I removed the material.
So, who was "Murphy" and when did that rule come into effect? The second question is fairly easy, sometime around 1930, shortly after the concept of doubling was introduced. this article has probably more than you wanted to know about it.
As for "Murphy", the best hypotheses I've heard is that at the FAQ on doubling at bkgm.com, automatic doubles is followed immediately by a section on the Jacoby Rule. And that section has a pointer to a post on usenet by Daniel Murphy in 1997. Looks like somebody got confused; it made it into Wikipeda and then AI, reddit, et al ran with it. Mr. Swordfish (talk) 00:47, 25 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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