09 What is a Chouette? (Backgammon)
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This article is from the Backgammon FAQ, by Mark Damish damish@ll.mit.edu with numerous contributions by others.
09 What is a Chouette? (Backgammon)
A Chouette is a social backgammon variant for more than 2 players. One
player is ``the box'', and plays against all other players on a single
board. One other player is the captain, and rolls the dice and makes
the plays for the team that opposes the box. If the box wins, the
captain goes to the back of the line, and the next player becomes
captain. If the captain wins, the box goes to the back of the line,
and the captain becomes the new box.
Customs vary as to the rights of the captain's partners: In some
Chouettes, they may consult freely as to the way rolls should be
played. In others, consultation is prohibited. A compromise, where
consultation is allowed only after the cube has been turned, is
popular.
Originally, Chouettes were played with a single cube. The only
decisions that players other than the captain were allowed to make
independently concerned takes: If the box doubled, each player on the
team could take or drop independently. Today, multiple-cube Chouettes
are more popular; each player on the team has his own cube, and all
doubling, dropping, and taking decisions are made independently by all
players.
-- Andy Latto
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