Backgammon Rules

How to Play Backgammon

Objective

Backgammon is played between two players with aim to remove all playing pieces from the board before the opponent does. Its a game of both luck and skill where playing pieces are moved according to dice roll and needs some level of strategy to block opponents from moving their pieces.

Gameplay

Backgammon is played on a board which consists 24 narrow and long trianlges which are known as Points. These points alternate in color and are grouped into four quadrants of six points each. These quadrants are known as home and outer board for respective players. The bottom right quadrant is home to player with white checkers. Top right quadrant is home to player with red checkers. The points are numbered from 1 through 24. For white, 1 starts at the bottom rightmost point and then increments in clockwise direction. For red, 1 starts at the top rightmost point and then increments in anticlockwise direction. The playing pieces are known as checkers and each player has 15 checkers at the begining; two are placed on their 24-point, three on their 8-point, and five each on their 13-point and 6-point. White checkers are moved from 24 to 1 in anticlockwise direction where as red checkers are moved from 24 to 1 in clockwise direction.

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