Darts

More recently, in keeping with Darts' strong association with pubs and drinking, matches between friends or pub teams are often played for pints. Dolce ( 'sweet' in Italian) may refer to:. Garside was discharged as the magistrates found darts, indeed, to be a game of skill. Dolce & Gabbana - a fashion design house. Garside asked for the assistance of local champion William "Bigfoot" Anakin who attended as a witness and demonstrated that he could hit any number on the board nominated by the court. DOLCE - a top level ontology developed by a (mostly) Italian research group. An apocryphal tale relates that in 1908, Jim Garside, the landlord of the Adelphi Inn, Leeds, England was called before the local magistrates to answer the charge that he had allowed betting on a game of chance, darts, on his premises. Dolce, a restaurant co-owned by Ashton Kutcher, Danny Masterson and Wilmer Valderrama.

On premises where alcohol is consumed, English law has long permitted betting only on games of skill, as opposed to chance, and then only for small stakes. Joe Dolce - Musician and Composer. The main traditional event is the ben. Dolce, a wine making term used to label wines whose level of residual sugar makes them sweeter than an amabile (medium-sweetness) wine. The WDF World Cup (for national teams) has been played bi-annually since 1977. Dolce, a musical term indicates that the performer should sing or play sweetly. While the PDC tournaments often have a higher prize money, critics would say they are less prestigious than those organised by its traditional counterpart, the BDO.

In 1994 a breakaway organisation was formed, influenced by Sky Television, currently known as the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) - in the Netherlands often televised by RTL5. The BDO organises all British darts players, with the exception of a small group of professionals. The BDO is a member of the World Darts Federation (WDF) (founded 1976), along with organisations in some 60 other countries worldwide. Its tournaments are often shown on the BBC in the UK, and on SBS6 in the Netherlands.

Of the two professional organisations, the British Darts Organisation (BDO), founded 1973, is the older. These include "Round The Clock", in which players must hit each numbered section in turn to win, and the more complicated Cricket. Other games that are commonly played differ in their scoring methods. Although playing straight down from 501 is standard in darts, other variations exist, notably "doubling in", where players must hit a double to begin scoring, with all darts thrown before said double contributing nothing to his score.

Longer matches are often divided into sets, each comprising some number of legs. Since the double areas are small, doubling out is usually the most difficult and tense part of a leg. A throw that would reduce a player's score to one or below zero does not count, his turn ends, and his score is reset to what it was before that turn. Successfully doing so is known as "doubling out" or "checking out".

The last dart in the leg must hit either a double or the inner portion of the bullseye and must reduce the score to exactly zero. Starting from a set score, usually 501 or 301, a player wins by reducing his score to zero. A game, or "leg", of darts is usually contested between two players, who take turns in throwing up to three darts. Many of these electronic dart boards have dozens of different dart games and variations programmed in, and will even coach a player as to where to aim his next throw.

One big advantage of the soft tip dart for the recreational player is the availability of electronic boards that will detect and score each dart hit, and track the score of each player. Other than the difference in maximum allowable weights of darts, soft tip dart rules are the same as those for steel tip darts. Since the plastic tips are prone to chip, bend and break with use, even inexpensive soft tip darts are made with replaceable tips, and replacement tips are sold in quantity. While still dangerous, soft tip darts are less likely to cause serious injury if they hit a person, and are far less likely to damage items they hit if they bounce out of the board.

The darts may be removed from the board by a gentle twist and pull. The soft tip darts have semi-rigid tapered plastic tips that will penetrate the holes cast in the board to a depth of about .25 inches (6 mm) before lodging securely in place. The soft tip darts are, in general, lighter than the steel tipped darts, and have a lower maximum allowable weight. A relatively new type of board is the soft tip board, which is made of plastic and cast with small holes (about .08 inches, or 2mm) in the face.

In the televised game, the commentator frequently announces a score of 180 in exuberant style. The highest score possible with 3 darts is 180, obtained when all three darts land in the triple 20. However, in the official game, any dart landing inside the outer wire scores as follows:. Various quite different games can be played (and still are played informally) using the standard dartboard.

Circular wires within the outer wire divide each section into single, double and triple areas. The standard dartboard is divided into twenty numbered sections, scoring from one to 20 points, by wires running from the small central circle to the outer circular wire. There are many different board layouts that would penalize a player more than the current setup; however, the current setup actually does the job rather efficiently. Mathematically, there are 20 !, or 2,432,902,008,176,640,000 different possible combinations of arrangement of the dartboard's 20 sections (20 possible places to place the 20, 19 remaining sections for the 19, etc).

Although this applies to most of the board, the left-hand side (near the 14 section) is preferred by beginners, for its concentration of larger numbers. By most accounts, the numbering layout was devised by Brian Gamlin in 1896 to penalize inaccuracy. The numbering plan known by many today has a 20 on top; however, a great many other configurations have been used throughout the years and in different geographical locations. Soon, regional standards emerged and many woodworkers supplemented bar tabs by fabricating dart boards for the local pubs.

As the wood dried, cracks would develop, creating "sections". There is speculation that the game originated among soldiers throwing short arrows at the bottom of the cast or at the bottom of trunks of trees. The dartboard itself may have its origins in the cross section of a tree, although some historical records suggest that the first standard dartboards were the bottoms of wine casks, hence the game's original name of "butts". In particular, the Yorkshire board differs from the standard board in that it has no treble ring and has a single, inner bull.

Various designs of dartboard have been used, and regional variations remain in parts of Staffordshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire. In the standard game, the dart board is hung so that the bullseye is 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) from the floor, and the oche (pronounced 'ock-ey'), or throwing line behind which the player must stand, is 7 ft 9.25 in (2.37 m) from the face of the board, though a few British pubs set it at 8 ft (2.44 m) or 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m). The numbers indicating the various scoring sections of the board are normally made of wire, especially on tournament-quality boards, but may be printed directly on the board instead. Dart boards are usually made of sisal fibers and each section is lined with thin metal wire.

. As well as being a professional competitive sport, darts is a traditional pub game, commonly played in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, the Scandinavian countries, the United States and elsewhere. Though various different boards and games have been used in the past, the term 'darts' usually now refers to a standardized game involving a specific board design and set of rules. Darts is a game, or rather a variety of related games, in which darts are thrown at a circular target (dart board) hung on a wall.

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Phil Taylor. Jelle Klaasen - Youngest dart champion at 21 years of age. Trina Gulliver — First women's darts champion. Bobby George.

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The American Darts Organization is the world's largest national dart league, facilitating the organization of members' regional divisions, and promoting the sport via pub-based teams and individuals across the country (http://www.adodarts.com/). The American Darters Association offers league organization for casual singles players throughout the United States (http://www.adadarters.com/). In professional rules, a dart's tip must be touching a scoring section for the dart to count. Variations on this rule exist - some judge that a dart which obviously hits a scoring section but then subsequently drops out will count if caught before it hits the floor.

Any dart that does not remain in the board after throwing (for example, a dart that hits a wire and bounces out of the board) also scores nothing. Hitting outside the outer wire scores nothing. The term "bullseye" can mean either the whole central part of the board or just the inner red section. The central circle is divided into a green outer ring worth 25 points (known as "outer" or "outer bull") and a red inner circle (usually known as "bull", "inner bull" or "double bull"), worth 50 points.

Hitting the thin inner portions of these sections, roughly halfway between the outer wire and the central circle and again coloured red or green, scores treble (or 3x) the points value of that section. Hitting the thin outer portions of these sections, coloured red and green, scores double the points value of that section. Hitting one of the large portions of each of the numbered sections, traditionally coloured black and yellow, scores precisely the points value of that section.