PLAYING BACKGAMMON OFFLINE

Backgammon used to be considered elegant, befitting only to emperors and kings. The ebbing of time has gradually erased that pompous arrogance to spread out over every cross section of society reaching a surge over the Internet. Today it translates to highly professional fun and recreation.

This article covers the basics for playing backgammon offline.

The objective of the game is very simple: To bring all your checkers to your home board and start bearing off. Whoever bears off first, wins the game. The process involves various techniques and strategies with a glimpse of rules and regulations. So, your only accomplishable task is to ensure that all the checkers from each point (wherever they might be placed) get home.

Getting Started:

First, ensure that the board is set up correctly, and that you are sitting face-to-face with your opponent bridging the board in-between.

1. Choosing your checker: Choice of the colour may be determined mutually or by throw of dice. 2. Deciding who moves first: Throw a single die to determine who will moves first. Throw the dice from a reasonable height for a proper bounce and allow the dice to rest properly to take the reading. Let the dice roll freely. 3. Moving your checkers: Move your checkers according to the numbers shown by the dice. You may move one checker as per the sum total of the numbers shown by each dice or two checkers independently according the each number shown by the dice. You need only move to the open points. You may also move to a point where the opponent has placed a single checker. Move checkers in pairs or single as you wish. You may move any checker(s) of your choice.