I just found that on
Hardy's Backgammon Pages and want to share it with fibsboarders if you missed this link, like me, until now.
 | This game they call todas tablas (all tables)
There is another game that they call todas tablas because it is set up spread out through all the four tables of the board.
And in the two tables that are across from one another on the same side of the bar, one the first they place five pieces of one color on the six-point. And of that same [color] they place two on the one-point of the other table that is across from it on the same side of the bar, and in that same table [the other color] also puts his pieces opposite it [the other color] as we have said for this. And in the other two tables that are across the bar from these, on the one-points they put five pieces of the color that placed the other five on the sixth point. And on the five-points they put three pieces in each of these colors.
And it is played like this: the one to roll first will play whichever side he wishes bringing the two pieces from the one-point towards the six-point where he has five pieces. But if some pieces are taken, they are to be returned to the table where the two pieces are on the one-point. And from there they are to bring them to the table where the five pieces are on the six-point and from there to bear them off.
And this game is played with two dice. |
This image is from the
Libro de los juegos.
The Libro de los Juegos, (
"Book of games"), or Libro de acedrex, dados e tablas, ("Book of chess, dice and tables") was commissioned by Alfonso X, king of León and Castile, during the 13th century and completed in 1283.
The book describes the rules for a number of games in the tables family. One notable entry is todas tablas, which has an identical starting position to modern backgammon and follows the same rules for movement and bearoff. =>
The translation of the spanish textThanks Hardy to bring me to this page
