Rules for playing backgammon

When the weather is bad and the planned walk is canceled or you want to entertain guests, try offering them an amazing old oriental game - backgammon. It promotes the development of memory and excellent logical thinking, even in children. At the same time, it is not difficult to master the rules of playing backgammon for beginners. The purpose of this desktop entertainment is that you throw out the bones, and depending on the dropped numbers move your checkers, which need to go full circle on the board, bring them to your "house" or "house" and remove them from the board earlier than it will be possible for the opponent. There are two types of game - short and long backgammon.

Features of the game in short backgammon

The rules of playing short backgammon with a pattern will help you visualize what exactly you need to do. You will need a board with 24 cells, called points. These points are divided into 4 groups, each consisting of 6 cells and called "yard", "house", "enemy yard", "enemy house". Between the house and the yard there is a bar "bar", protruding above the board.

According to the rules of playing short backgammon for beginners, you should number the items for each player separately, starting with his "home". The most remote from you item is assigned number 24, it is number 1 for the opponent. Each player will need 15 checkers, which are placed like this: 5 checkers in the sixth point, 3 checkers in the eighth point, 5 checkers in the 13 point and 2 checkers in the point 24.

Your goal - to move all the checkers in the position of their "home" and remove them from the board in order to win.

The rules for playing backgammon say that each player throws out one bone to determine the order of the turn. The one with the larger number moves his checkers to the appropriate number of points. Then the game is constructed as follows:

1. Players alternately throw out 2 bones and move the checkers depending on the fallen numbers on both bones. If you have 4 and 2, you can move two checkers: one for 4 fields, another for 2 fields or one of the checkers at once for 6 (4 + 2) points, but on the condition that there are no opponent's pieces on the way.
2. Checkers should be moved only from points having large numbers, strictly to points with smaller values, towards the opponent's checkers.
3. If you get a double, you can move the checkers in any valid combinations to each of the dropped numbers 2 times. For example, if you have 5-5, you can make 4 moves of 5 points in various combinations (3-7-2-8, 4-6-1-9, etc.). So do, and if you have dropped 3 and 5.
4. When in the place where your checker is placed, the opponent's checker is located, it is knocked out and moves to the "bar".
5. Before moving other checkers, you must return your checkers to the board. They are put in the "house" of the opponent in positions corresponding to discarded bones. This is indicated in the rules for playing backgammon.
6. When all the checkers are in the "house", they begin to clean the boards. You throw away the dice and remove the checkers from the points whose numerical designations correspond to the dropped numbers.

Nuances of playing long backgammon

Understand the rules of playing backgammon with pictures for beginners will be quite easy. They look like this:

1. There is also a 24-point board. The "house" of black checkers is located on points 1 to 6, while for white checkers it is located on points 13 to 18.

2. The difference in the rules of the game in the classic backgammon is that all 15 checkers at the beginning of the competition are set to 24 points - the so-called. "Head".

   It is allowed to remove only one checker during one turn, except for a double, when you can remove two pieces from the "head".

3. Checkers move one after another extremely counter-clockwise.

   If you have a checker on the position, you can not put it in there.

4. You can move any number of checkers.
5. Points on 2 bones can not be summed up: you first move the checker by the number of points corresponding to the number dropped on the first bone, then to the corresponding number that shows the second bone.
6. In the rules of playing long backgammon with pictures it is clear that the checkers should be removed from the board when they stand on the positions corresponding to the number of points that the discarded bone shows. If they are not, you move the checkers, starting with the senior positions.

If you have any questions, you should refer to the following literature:

1. Akhundov NF "Handbook of Long Backgammon: Theory and Practice of the Game" (2012).
2. Shekhov V. G. "Backgammon: from beginner to champion" (2009).
3. Chebotarev R. "Long Backgammon" (2010).
4. Akhundov NF "School of Long Backgammon Game" (2009).
5. Magril P. "Backgammon" (2006).
6. Clay R. "Backgammon. Strategy of victory "(2010).
7. Fadeev I. "Backgammon is a game of millennia" (2009).

If you are fascinated by this game, we also offer you to read the rules of the checkers game .