Whether this is public or private information should be agreed upon between players before the game begins.

Each player begins the game with sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns.

The players are referred to as " White " and " Black ", and each begins the game with sixteen pieces of the specified color.

Before the game begins, the player chooses which historical civilization to play.

Before the game begins, each player creates his or her player character and records the details ( described below ) on a character sheet.

The moment that a forward pass begins is important to the game.

* 2004 – Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!

One spin-off of a now-defunct Nomic ( Nomic World ) is the Fantasy Rules Committee, which adds every legal rule submitted by a player to the ruleset until the players run out of ideas, after which all the " fantasy rules " are repealed and the game begins again.

One currently-active game, BlogNomic, gets around this problem by dividing the game into " dynasties "; every time someone wins, a new dynasty begins, and all the rules except a privileged few are repealed.

* The Diminishing Bridge variation begins with the maximum hand and counts down, like the latter half of a standard game.

In the game of show five, for example, each player is dealt seven cards before any betting begins, and each of the game's five betting rounds begins with the players simultaneously revealing one of their cards (" simultaneous choose-after rollout ").

Once completed, the card is then mailed ( or, in more modern times, emailed ) to the game master, where it is either processed, or held until the next turn processing window begins.

For the specific game of Othello ( as technically differing from Reversi ), the rules state that the game begins with four disks placed in a square in the middle of the grid, two facing light-up, two pieces with the dark side up, with same-colored disks on a diagonal with each other.

For example, if the order of play is A → X → B → Y at beginning of the first game, the order begins with X → A → Y → B or Y → B → X → A in the second game depending on either X or Y being chosen as the first server of the game.

The manufacturer of the game, Game Designers ' Workshop ( GDW ), which is now owned by Tantalus, extended the timeline of Twilight 2000 to create the background history for the science fiction game 2300 AD ; by doing so the rather depressing post-nuclear environment of Twilight 2000 is mitigated by the outcome in which the Earth rebuilds itself and begins to colonize space.

** In Durban, South Africa the Timeless Test begins between England and South Africa, the longest game of cricket ever played.

Before the game begins, we are told that Julie has previously killed a tyrant and " would-be God " named Lord Tyler ( during the events of Heavy Metal 2000 ), and brought the remnant of her people to a planet called Eden.

Having done this, the actual game begins with another roll of a die, which is used to determine the playing order.

Brunson continues to play in the biggest poker games in the world, including a $ 4000 /$ 8000 limit mixed poker game in " Bobby's Room " at the Bellagio.

The American press — particularly Drew Pearson — made note of the fact that the Globetrotters were paid ( per game ) the equivalent of $ 4000, which could be spent only in Moscow.

Man, Myth & Magic is a fantasy role-playing game, using paper and dice, set in the ancient world, drawing from legends dating from approximately 4000 BC to 1000 AD.

Against the Tennessee Titans he went over 4000 yards passing for the 11th time in a season, and tied Dan Marino with his 63rd regular season game with 300 + yards passing.

Since a typical server can handle around 10, 000 – 12, 000 players, 4000 – 5000 active simultaneously, dividing the game into several servers has up until now been the solution.

During the 1955 Five Nations Championship, the Scotland v. Wales match was televised live ; at the same time an Aberavon v. Abertillery game which would normally draw a crowd of 4000 was unable to muster 400.

South Park: Chef's Luv Shack, a 1999 video game from developer Acclaim, included a mini-game called " Beefcake ", in which players control a Cartman character who moves back and forth between the screen eating cans of Weight Gain 4000 that are thrown down at him.

These animals are typically hunted on a fee for each kill, with hunters paying $ 4000 or more to be able to hunt exotic game.

Inside Ecuador, Boca del Pozo is the mayor driving force of Emelec fans wherever the team has to play, and the fans travel all over the country to watch Emelec's away games with an average of 4000 fans per game.

Almost 4000 separate Manhattan locations, including 650 streets, were part of the game.

Senet is the oldest board game known to have existed, and was pictured in a fresco found in Merknera's tomb ( 3300 – 2700 BC ).

* c. 3000 BC: The Mehen board game from Predynastic Egypt, was played with lion-shaped game pieces and marbles.

* c. 1500 BC: Painting of board game at Knossos.

* 1 BC – 8 AD: The Roman Game of kings is a game of which little is known, and which is more or less contemporary with the Latrunculi.

The birth hour of boxing as a sport may be its acceptance by the ancient Greeks as an Olympic game as early as 688 BC.

* BC ( video game ), a cancelled video game by Lionhead Studios

There is a depiction of a hockey-like game from 200 BC in Ancient Greece when the game may have been called " Κερητίζειν " (" kerētízein ") because it was played with a horn (" κέρας " in Greek ) and a ball-like object.

In East Asia, a similar game was entertained, using a carved wooden stick and ball prior to 300 BC.

In Egypt, 4000-year-old carvings feature teams with sticks and a projectile, hurling dates to before 1272 BC in Ireland, and there is a depiction from c. 600 BC in Ancient Greece where the game may have been called kerētízein or kerhtízein ( κερητίζειν ) because it was played with a horn or horn-like stick ( kéras, κέρας ) In Inner Mongolia, China, the Daur people have been playing beikou, a game similar to modern field hockey, for about 1, 000 years.

This tendency even extends to time periods where its employment is so early as to be anachronistic, such as in the Creative Assembly's game Rome: Total War where the armour is available as early as the 3rd century BC.

One of the myths of the origin of mahjong suggests that Confucius, the Chinese philosopher, developed the game in about 500 BC.

The game first played in Persia at dates given from the 5th century BC.

Based on estimates of the amount of game animals scholars estimate the population of Denmark to have been between 3300-8000 persons in the time around 7000 BC.

The earliest known mention of the game is in Ovid's Ars Amatoria ( The Art of Love ) ( written between 1 BC and 8 AD ).

The Ancient Greeks are recorded to have played a game of tossing coins, then flat stones, and later stone balls, called spheristics, trying to have them go as far as possible, as early as the 6th century BC.

Recent excavations at the " Burnt City " in Iran showed that a similar game existed there around 3000 BC.

The theory states that a four-handed dice-chess game ( Chaturaji ) was originated in India in approximately 3000 BC ; and that arising from the results of certain rules, or the difficulty in getting enough players, the game evolved into a two-handed game ( Chaturanga ).