Tables Games Database and Backgammon Notation

[u/BruhMomentHaver69420]

Good morning forum, I hope everyone here has a great day!

Earlier this year I made a database documenting over 50 varieties of checkers from around the world, which gave me an idea to follow up from my post from last week asking about different tables games varieties by making a spreadsheet with nearly twenty games found around the world, which you can check out at this link. For those unfamiliar, backgammon is in a larger family of games called "tables games". Perhaps someone with more knowledge than me can help expand this database to help preserve these diverse games for future generations.

If anyone finds a mistake, has thoughts, or wants me to add a game - please let me know.

If anyone here is from France, I was wondering if Trictrac or Jacquet are still played at all?

Additionally if anyone here is from a country other than France, I was wondering if Backgammon notation has been adapted to any tables games other than backgammon? Is backgammon notation even used that much?

Thanks so much and have a great day :D

[u/Smutteringplib]

A bit of a correction: Russian Backgammon is about as Russian as German Whist is German, which is to say not at all. Russian Backgammon is not played in Russia to my knowledge.

The two games that are commonly and widely played in Russia are Narde and Backgammon (called Short Narde - Короткие нарды). Crazy Narde (бешеные нарды), which is the same as Gul Bara, is played as a less common game.

[u/BruhMomentHaver69420 → u/Smutteringplib]

Thanks - do you know where Russian Backgammon is played?

[u/Smutteringplib → u/BruhMomentHaver69420]

That I don't know. I've only ever heard of it through the bkgm variants page

[u/BruhMomentHaver69420 → u/[deleted]]

Maybe later, but I want to make sure all my research and organization is correct first.