The Rules Of The Game
Backgammon
One of the oldest board games dating back to Iran 3000 BCE and predating chess by 3500 years. It is a game played between two opponents on a board with twenty-four triangles or points on which each player places fifteen men. The players take it in turns to roll two dice and race to remove their men from the board. The game is a game of strategy and luck, and its apparent simplicity belies its great complexity.
Game Theory
This is a branch of applied mathematics that attempts to determine the actions that "players" should take to secure the best possible outcome for themselves or the group in any game. Players can be individuals or institutions and games can describe a wide number of situations from backgammon, dealing in stocks, rearing children, or even fighting a war.
I have always enjoyed playing games and whilst I was at school I played for the chess team when we competed in the Sunday Times Chess Tournament. My interest in chess waned a little after I went to university and discovered girls, although in my first year there I also discovered contract bridge, a game I continue to enjoy playing.
When I was in my late twenties I visited Turkey. I was intrigued to see people playing a board game they called tavla. It was played everywhere; in bars, coffee houses, barbers' shops, hotel receptions, and nearly everybody seemed to have a set in their home. Furthermore, it was ubiquitous and was played by old men in coffee houses whilst puffing contentedly on a hookah pipe, young couples having a coffee or a beer, or parents with their young children.
I later found out that they were playing a version of backgammon and that this game is popular throughout Greece, the Middle East, and North Africa, although there are several local variations in the rules of the game.
I decided to learn to play and soon found out two things. Firstly, it is very easy to play, but very difficult to play well. Secondly, whilst in the long term the better player always will win, in the short-term luck can play a part. In this respect this is like bridge or poker.
I became determined to learn to play backgammon properly and bought books on the subject, studied them, and joined my local backgammon club. Within a few years I was one of the strongest players in my club and had started to play in tournaments.
One Tuesday evening when I was at a club meeting Georgia entered the room where we were playing, and simultaneously entered my life. I should mention that at the time I was between girlfriends and as this beautiful women approached I was gratified to see an empty ring finger. She was around five feet ten inches tall, slim, and well proportioned, with black hair, soft brown eyes, and an olive brown complexion.
She explained that she had come alone to the pub where we were meeting and had become intrigued by the sign indicating there was a club meeting. Although she was Middle Eastern in origin she had been brought up in the UK and didn't play the game well. I didn't need a second chance to make her acquaintance and suggested she watch us play that evening, and then come back the next week when I would be happy to give her some lessons.
The following Tuesday evening shortly after 7 pm when the meeting had commenced Georgia re-appeared and a little later I found myself sitting opposite her and explaining the fundamentals of the game. I explained to her the use of the doubling cube, which is not a feature of tavla, but is fundamental to Western backgammon, and we played a few games as we talked and got to know each other.
It rapidly became very apparent that Georgia had not been exaggerating when she had said she wasn't very good. She didn't even understand the importance of her opponent's five point.
After an hour or so I suggested we go down to the bar and have a drink and she was happy to agree. As we sat together in the crowded bar I learnt that she was new to the area having recently started a job as a local store manager, was unattached, and lived in a nearby flat. She learnt that I was single enjoyed playing games and was very much attracted to her.
I walked her back to her flat, but she didn't invite me in.
"Sorry I've got an early meeting in the morning."
"Would you like to go out for dinner tomorrow?" I replied
"Can't do tomorrow but how about Friday night," she responded.
"Do you like Italian? If so we can go to Luigi's on the high street."
"Lovely. I'll meet you there. And bring a backgammon set," she said.
And so "the die was cast," and three nights later we spent a very pleasant couple of hours in the best Italian restaurant in town before walking back to her flat. We had shared a couple of bottles of Italian red wine between us and were pleasantly relaxed. I had a backgammon set under my arm and this time I was invited In.
As Georgia prepared coffee I set up the backgammon set on a small coffee table which I placed between the sofa and an adjacent armchair and sat back waiting for her. As she sat down she looked first at the board and then smiled quizzically at me.
"I'm not working tomorrow so let's play a game. Ever played strip backgammon? We're going to end up naked sometime tonight anyway!"
I was taken by surprise by her direct way. This was probably made greater because I have always been very shy around very beautiful women. Nonetheless, fortified by wine, I was able to reply.
"Not very fair. I play better than you."
"Let's play one-point games I should be able to win a few if I'm lucky."
And so, we played. And she was lucky.
She won three out of the first seven games we played by which time she had removed two stockings and her skirt and blouse, and I had lost both my socks and shirt. We sat opposite each other, she was wearing bra and panties whilst I was a little better clothed but with a throbbing erect penis which was straining to escape the confinement of my trousers.
She lost the next game. She stood reached behind and started to unclip her bra.
Stop I said. "You don't have to."
"But I do, "she replied
"A game has no meaning if you break the rules. I'll remove my bra but one more game first if you want."
And she won and I had to remove my trousers.
The next game was close, but I threw a double six at the end and won the game.
Georgia stood up and crossed behind the table on which the board sat and proudly stepped out of her panties and unclipped her bra. Whilst she did this she was looking at me to see the effect she was having on me and then looked down at my bulging crotch and she smiled.
I had met beautiful women before, but they had clothes on, and sex was not likely to be on the menu. Georgia was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen naked, and I hoped that very soon I would be deep inside her. She was unshaven with a perfect complexion. Her bottom was large and round, and her hips narrow whilst her breasts were large, round and very firm.
She sat on the arm of my chair and kissed me on the lips, and as I returned her kiss and our tongues found each other for the first time she reached down and felt my hardness through the fabric of my underpants.
And then she got up and returned to her position at the board.
"I can see I'm going to have to do something about that, so I'll offer you a bet. A hand job for a hand spanking. I have a kink I'm afraid. I like to spank my boyfriends. Let's play first to three games with no doubling cube and if I win you lie over my naked lap, and I spank you with my hand six times with pants on and then six on the bare. If you win I take off your pants and give you a hand job.
This proposition was very intriguing. I had discovered this intelligent and desirable women had a hidden fetish. I didn't think a spanking would be so bad anyway whilst I did want a hand job. I didn't give her much chance of her beating me to three games and with that in mind after a moment's thought I agreed.
As we sat opposite each other across the Backgammon board and threw our dice and moved our counters. I found it difficult not to laugh aloud. A naked women and a half naked man with a hard on were playing with stakes of a spanking or a wank!
Georgia played very badly. It was almost as if she wanted to lose, and I won three games to nothing.
She leaned over the table towards me bringing her beautiful boobs closer to me.
"OK I owe you a hand job. I can come over there now or you can double down. I will bet you a fucking against a caning. This will be our last game of backgammon tonight so let's make it a nine-point game with no doubling cube. When it's over you get a hand job and a caning or a hand job and a fuck. If you lose the caning will happen with bent over the end of that table and you will get six over the pants and then six on the bare."
"Well?"
I agreed to the bet. I had come too far not to, and I figured that she couldn't beat me to nine points without the most ridiculous run of luck. She simply wanted to get laid although this seemed a long-winded way to achieve this. After all she only had to ask.
I should have thought it through, but by then I was thinking with my dick.
So, we started to play and within a few minutes play it became apparent that she had become a different player to the one I had played before. Every move she made was statistically sound and almost effortlessly thought out and even when her throws of the dice were unlucky she made the best of a bad job. It was apparent she was a far better player than I was. She was an expert and I had been hustled.
