Learn how to play Backgammon

General info about the backgammon game

You don't need to be especially clever in order to start playing backgammon, the rules are pretty simple, and the game is really fun. The global target is to remove all your pieces from the board before your opponent does. Each piece can be blocked or captured.

The scores for this board game is sometimes played by the best in five method, because each game usually takes a few minutes, and when you playing you want to play for more than ten minutes, it is really fun and once you start playing you become addicted and wont want to stop and you can play for hours with your friends and family and even on line with oponents all over the world over the internet and in tournaments. 

So you want to start playing but you don't know how to start to set the up the board and position the pieces, well you can get instructions from a friend who will easily explain it to you. You can also read the following instructions for setting up the board in order to start playing.

First of all you can find on each side of the game board 12 triangles, each one called a point. The points are virtually connected at one side of the board. Each point is numbered from 1 to 24. Each player allways moves from the upper points'to the lower, while each player's point is the other player's opposite point, for example, your point number 2 is your opponents point number 23. So you can understand from this that each player is going in a different direction.

Now that you understand the board rules and the first order of the game pieces. Each player starts with two pieces on his point number 24, three pieces on his point number 8, and five pieces on his points number 13 and 6.

As mentioned before, in order to win the game you need to remove all of your pieces from the board, but you are able to start to remove your pieces only after you brought all of your pieces to your points 1 to 6 zone.

The first player is set by rolling a dice, and the player with the higher number is the first to play, if the dices are equal  both players roll again until there is a higher number. Each turn, the player is rolling two dice.

In each turn, you are able to move with your pieces only to points where the other players don't have more than one piece, if your opponent has one piece on this point that your piece can capture your opponents piece and he has to return from the start of the board and your opponent can't play until his captured piece is back on the board.

Backgamon is very popular on the internet, and you can find  an application that can analyze games and movements, but the main use of backgammon over the internet is games between two people from all over the world. The first backgammon online game server opened on July 1, 1992, and this is server is still online and can be connected to for free even today, after a lot of upgrades of course. This is not the only free backgamon server, you can find a lot of free online backgammon games over the internet, some let you play against the computer and others let you play against other people some are for gambling some are just for fun.

Learn backgammon rules, gamble and make money from winning.

You can play online backgammon on the net. 

good luck !

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