Backgammon as a Peace Maker

How to keep your house safe from harm when you are hosting 8-10 boys in the prime of their aggressive years? If you ask Polly Beard, the entertaining expert of Times Online, the answer is to teach them how to play backgammon. 

Backgammon, she says and I have to agree, is aggressive enough to be a substitute for a fight, and interesting enough to keep the entire family hooked up around it for hours. Plus, it is easy to learn, it is not a messy or noisy game and even if someone gets so upset he turns up the backgammon board, bringing back the house to its immaculate position is a matter of minutes. 

When you think of it, it is actually a brilliant idea. If people would run their battles on the backgammon board instead on the battlefield, there will be no more war! And I say play backgammon not war!