Rules of playing Backgammon
Learn to play backgammon quickly with our summarized guide.
The board
The backgammon board has 12 triangles colored white and 12 colored black (rarely colored in other colors). every triangle called point. The board is divided into 4 quadrants each has 6 points. every player has one quadrants that it's his homeboard. After a checker is hit it is placed on the bar between the two halfs of the board and it can back to the game in one of the points at the opponents homeboard on a dice roll. Two checkers are on each players 24pt., five on each players 13pt., three on each 8pt., adn five on each players 6pt.. The direction of play is from your opponents homeboard to their outerboard, to your outerboard to your homeboard.
Start playing
The players throw dice. the player got the higher value begins.
The players move the checkers according to the agreed direction only.
Part 1 Moving your checkers to your homebase
The General movement divided into two separate moves. The player can make the movement with two checkers, each move by the value indicated by single dice, or the can move one checker with one of the numbers and then continue moving it with the other number.
You may move a checker to any point occupied by your own checkers or to a point occupied with up to 1 of the opponents checkers. in this case, you hit that checker.
If a player rolls doubles, they may move four times the value (if the dice show 3 and 3,you need to make a movement of 3, 3, 3 and 3)
The full roll must be used if possible including doubles. If only one number can be played it must be the higher number of the two if possible. If doubles are thrown, you must play as many of the 4 as possible.
Part 2 Bearing off
Only if all your checkers are placed in the homeboard you can bear them off according to the numbers on the dice or move checkers from your higher points to your lower points.
You can bear off checkers if the number on the dice is higher than their point
location or equal.
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