Talk:Tâb

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This article is based on a board games book in Danish, and I wrote it mostly because I needed to link to it from the article Daldøs. Anyone having a better source or first-hand knowledge, please contribute! - E.g., how old is the game? Where is it actually played, under which names? Are the rules and game materials identical in the whole region? Are the rules presented correctly?

It's not clear to me how a tâb throw is used to split up a stack of pieces - do they still occupy the same square, bot not as a stack, or is just one of the pieces moved one square ahead, leaving the other pieces (assuming there were more than two to begin with) still stacked?

It seems to me the rules must lead to lots of disputes about the legality of various moves: Has a certain piece already been through row 4 or not? Has one of the pieces in a stack previously occupied a given square or not? Without a meticulous record of the game, how are such disputes resolved?--Niels Ø 19:18, 10 September 2006 (UTC)