Backgammon: A Concise Description of How to Play this Classic Board Game

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• Backgammon A Concise Description of How to Play
  this Classic Board Game

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• Backgammon is among the worlds oldest board
  games and is still played today.
• The playing pieces are moved according to the
  roll of dice, and a player wins by removing all
  of his pieces from the board before his opponent.
• The aim of this game is to take away all your own
  pieces from the board before your opponent can do
  the same.

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How to Play Backgammon

• Bring all your checkers, whether black or white,
  into their own home board so they can be removed
  one by one from the board is a players objective
  when playing this board game.
• Set-up and Rules Both players roll a die to
  begin playing and whoever rolls the highest
  number plays first.

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• Raditionally, the joint numbers on the dice that
  has already been thrown are used by the first
  player to begin playing, although contemporary
  backgammon players often do not follow this rule.

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• Moves- The number of points or pips is indicated
  by the roll of the dice.
• The checkers can only move only forwards and not
  backwards.
• Thus, the black and white checkers always move in
  opposite directions.

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• Hit a blot Blot is a term used to refer to a
  single checker on a point and the opponent may
  hit or attack it.
• The same point cannot be inhabited by different
  colored checkers.

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• Bearing off- Removing your pieces from the home
  board is the final stage of the backgammon game.
• Win the Game- The first player who bears all his
  or her checkers off the board wins the game.

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