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"Retreat your outpost": defunct terminology?

Posted By: Tom Keith
Date: Wednesday, 4 September 2013, at 6:04 p.m.

In Response To: "Retreat your outpost": defunct terminology? (Daniel Murphy)

Georges Mabardi ("Vanity Fair's Backgammon to Win," 1930) also uses the term retreat in this way. He writes (page 31):

"First, the novice should remember that Backgammon is always a game of retreat, never of advance. If it seems strange that victory can be won by retreating, remember that many great battles have been won that way. In Backgammon the player is always trying to withdraw his men from their original positions in enemy territory to the final position of safety in his own inner table, at the same time trying to block, impede and delay the similar retreat of the enemy forces."

Maybe that's where Hopper picked up the term.

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