online backgammon basic rules

Backgammon is a board game similar to chess, but much older. It is played on a board of 24 points with 12 points per side. Backgammon is a two-player game. One side is called white and the other is called black. Perpendiculars to the players sides are the sides labeled the Inner Table and the Outer Table. Hence, the games most anciently known name, Tables. Later called Trictrac (after Tables and before Backgammon), this game also requires two dice per player and a cup for each player to roll dice from. The pieces are similar in size and shape to checkers. The black side uses dark pieces and the white side uses light colored pieces.

Online Backgammon is played much the same, as it is live. You can either choose to play against another player or against the bot.

Backgammon Basics


Rolls of the dice determine the moves in Backgammon. When you roll the dice you have two choices allowed for moving your pieces. With a roll of two dice you may move one piece the total of the two dice or move two pieces, one the number of one of the dyes and the other the number of the other dye. For example, if you roll a 6 and a 2, you may move one piece 8 places or move 2 pieces, one 6 places and another piece moves 2 places. When you roll doubles you may move 4 times that number not just two times. The object is to move your pieces, also called stones, all the way to youre the inner table on your side and then all the way off the board before your opponent does. In other words, Black moves all the way around from their starting points (each piece has a different starting point) to their inner table, and White does the same on his side. Now the game board is set up as follows: If I am Black, I will see two white pieces on the first point on my side, five black stones on the sixth point, three black stones on the eighth and five white stones on the twelfth point. The white player will see the same number of stones in the same points but in opposite colors. Each player has a total of fifteen stones.


Making points

A player makes a point by positioning two or more of his men on it. He then owns'' that point, and his opponent can neither come to rest on that point nor touch down on it when taking the combined total of his dice with one man.


Prime

A player who has made six consecutive points has completed a prime. An opposing man trapped behind a prime cannot move past, for it cannot be moved more than six spaces at a time---the largest number on a die.


Blots

A single man on a point is called a blot. If you move a man onto an opponent's blot, or touch down on it in the process of moving the combined total of your cast, the blot is hit, removed from the board and placed on the bar. A man that has been hit must re-enter in the opposing home table. A player may not make any move until such time as he has brought the man on the bar back into play. Re-entry is made on a point equivalent to the number of one of the dice cast, providing that the opponent does not own point


Closed board

A Player who has made all six points in his home board is said to have a closed board. If the opponent has any men on the bar, he will not be able to re-enter it since there is no vacant point in his adversarys home board. Therefore, he forfeits his rolls, and continues to do so until such time as the player has to open up a point in his home board, thus providing a point of reentry. It should be noted, the he doesn't loses his turn, as he still retains the ability to double his opponent before any of his opponents rolls, assuming the cube is centered or on his side.


More complicated moves

There are 4 unique rules in Backgammon that make it different from any other game. This may be part of the reason that Backgammon is played a great deal less than many other games, due to its complexity and sometimes, its boredom.

Unique Rule #1: If a player is going to land on a point that has two or more opposing stones, they may not make this move. If they are going to move only the roll of one dye, for this reason, they must use the larger number. In some cases they may not be able to make a move at all. Stones of opposite color cannot be remaining on the same point.

Unique Rule #2: A single stone of one color may land on a point occupied by a single stone of another color. If your stone lands on such a stone, it must move to the bar in the center of the table. This stone must then be the first stone moved by that player on his next move.

Unique Rule #3: You can only move a stone off the table altogether once your stones are all on your side of the table.

Unique Rule #4: If a piece is in position where it can leave the table and a roll of the dye is high enough to do that, you must make that move. If all pieces are not on this side of the table then such a move cant be taken at all

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