Editing Tables game (section)

=== Movement ===
Parlett (1999) identifies three different modes of movement in tables games:<ref name=Parlett58-87/>

==== Games without movement ====
A small number of tables games involve no actual movement of pieces around the board. Instead pieces are entered or borne off or both, the aim being to be the first player to do so. Examples include Alfonso's Los Doze Canes also called Los Doze Hermanos, the English games of [[Doublets (game)|Doublets]] and Catch Dolt, the French games Renette, Tables Rabattues and Paumecary, the Icelandic game of [[Ofanfelling]] and the Levantine game of Eureika. Most of these games are simple pursuits suitable for children.

==== Games of contrary movement ====
This is the group to which [[Backgammon]] belongs. Some start with all pieces off the board, others with a fixed starting layout, but the aim in every case is to race them around the board in opposite directions and be first to bear them off. The group also includes Acey Deucey, known as Gegenpuff in German-speaking countries, Plakota, the "[[English Game]]", the Spanish games of Emperador, Quinze Tablas and [[Todas Tablas]], the Italian games of Tavole Reales and Testa, and the French games of Tieste, Impérial and [[Trictrac]].

==== Games of parallel movement ====
Like other members of the tables family, games in this last group are often mistaken for Backgammon or assumed to be its variants, yet the direction of movement and hence play is quite different. Players move in the same direction around the board and that direction is always anticlockwise. The group includes the old German games of Langer Puff (known confusingly in English as German or Russian Backgammon) and Buffa, the Italian game of Buffa Cortese, the Spanish games of [[Laquet]] and Pareia de Entrada, the continental game of [[Verquere]], French [[Jacquet]], Turkish Moultezim and a curious Icelandic game called Chase the Girls.