Backgammon is one of the most popular and oldest games that have been around for more than thousand years. This game is quite famous all over the world and this is the main reason to consider this game as universal game. This game can be played on one to one private and as high stake competitions too.
Worldwide tournaments are conducted and the organizations that conduct these tournaments offer huge winner prizes. If you are not aware of this game, then first you should try to understand the basic board set up of this game. It is essential to know the board set up to move on to the next level of playing. Once you know the set up then you should concentrate on learning how to play this game.
Before getting into the main game, first concentrate on knowing the layout of the board which is very important. Just like the classic game chess, each player will be identified by dark and light checkers. The backgammon board is split into two halves using a divider. The inner board is on one side while the outer board is on the other side. First the players should try to move all their checkers (also called as men) to their home board. Both the players have to move their checkers to their home board to start the bearing off. The final stage of the game is bearing off and the player who first bear off all his or her men is the winner in backgammon online game.
Basically in backgammon game there are 24 points and these 24 points are divided into six points each among 4 quadrants. The board has alternated colored triangles. The players have to move their 15 checkers according to the number that is rolled on the dice. The checkers will be moved on the quadrants. If two of the opponent checker occupies the point then the player cannot move his or her men in to that particular point. On the other hand, if there is one checker of the opponent, then the player can land on that particular point which is called a hit.
When there is a hit situation, the checker of the opponent will be knocked onto the middle bar. These are the basic rules of backgammon game. Online backgammon game works in the most similar way. Now let’s see how to set the backgammon game board. There are totally 15 checkers in this game for each player. Point 1 will be the closest point that is in your home board and point 24 is the farthest which is in the opponent’s home board. You have to place 2 checkers on point 24, 5 checkers on point 13 followed by 3 checkers on point 8 and finally the remaining 5 checkers on point 6. The opponent has to set the board in the same way; it will be just the mirror image of yours. For online backgammon game, the board is set automatically and there is no need to check for the settings.
Once you know how to set the board and to play the game, all you need to do is concentrate on the game and learn more techniques to be successful. First try out a free online game to get used to backgammon game.
