How to block your opponent
Apart from being a game which involves a race between the two players, one of the essential actions when playing backgammon is trying, and hopefully managing, to block your opponent, to put his ...
Backgammon rules and tips
Backgammon tips
While playing backgammon, you will inevitably find yourself in the position of being ahead or behind your opponent in the race to bear the checkers off. Being ahead is a good thing, but being behind ...
Can you play backgammon with more than one opponent?
Usually, when you think about backgammon, you think of a two-player game. But along the years, people have tried to make this game more challenging and more fun
Backgammon strategies
Although for a beginner the best strategy seems to be to hit the opponent’s blots, this however is not always the best choice. There are some other things that you can do in order to raise your ...
Some myths about backgammon
1. Many people say that backgammon is a game of luck. Of course it is a game of luck. You must roll the dices and make your moves according to what the numbers on the dices show. You cannot predict ...
Main goals when opening a backgammon game
This game is basically a game of technique and strategy, in which the experience of a player can tell the difference. Besides knowing a few of the opening moves, one must set his goals during the ...
Backgammon opening rolls
Besides being a game of chance, because players use dices in order to determine the number of checkers to move and where to move them, it is actually much more a game of knowledge, a game in which ...
History of Backgammon
What we know about backgammon is that it may be the oldest board games invented and played in different parts of the world, but no one actually knows exactly when it started and where. About 5000 ...
Backgammon Rules
The objective of Backgammon Maybe we can not consider the objective of Backgammon a rule, but it certainly is very important to know that it refers to bringing all the pieces on the "home board", ...
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