Backgammon Articles Archive

The full Backgammon Guide - definitions and rules for pros and begginers. Study about the history of the backgammon game, how to set up the board, the rules of the game, notation, the best opening rules how to use the doubling cube, what is the bear-off and how to do it properly, all about the tournaments, equity and money matches strategies.
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Backgammon is one of the oldest games in existence alongside Go and Chess. It is about 5,000 years old and may well have originated in what today is Iraq. Frescoes in many a Roman villa depict the game in progress. The Emperor Claudius was a keen player and Nero played for huge sums of money.
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Backgammon Board setting is the first thing you should learn when starting to play backgammon. This board game has a uniqe arrangement, but once you get the idea of it, it`s preatty easy. When playing online backgammon, one shouldn`t setup the board himself, since the software tamkes care of that, but even the online gamers should know how to do it.
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The basic backgammon game rules. The object of the game, starting off, rollling the dice, rulls of rolling, moving the checkers, hitting and entering, bearing off and winning the game. Read this article if you`re a begginer and start playing today to improve your skills. You can see how soon you start winnig the backgammon game and you can make money of it!
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Hits are indicated by an asterisk. A move made from the bar has `bar` as its starting point. A move bearing off a checker has `off` as its ending point. Where more than one checker is moved identically, as is often the case with doubles, this fact is indicated by showing the number of checkers moved in brackets after the move.
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In backgammon game, the opening move may determain the winner. Each roll should be played with great tought, since it can change your entire game. This article is worth a lot for you, becaouse our experts are revealing their secrets here. Read exactly how to play each roll in your first moves, so your game begins with advantege. For best results - print this article and hang it on your fridge...
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Learn the secrets of the best use of doubling cube. During the course of the game, a player who feels he has a sufficient advantage may propose doubling the stakes. The player does this by turning the doubling cube to the next appropriate value. Each face of the doubling cube bears a number to record progressive doubles and redoubles, starting with 2 and going on to 4, 8, 16, 32 and 64.
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Bear-offs, the removal of checkers from the board, are relatively straightforward. In no contact positions it is normally correct to take a checker off the points corresponding to the dice rolled, e.g. with a 54 take a checker off the 5 and a checker off the 4. If you roll a number bigger than the highest occupied point then you must take a checker off the next highest point, e.g. if you only have checkers on the 3-pt, 2-pt and 1-pt then you must take a checker off the 3-pt with any 3, 4, 5 or 6.
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Backgammon tournaments are normally decided by single elimination matches in the same way as major tennis tournaments. Competitors are paired off and each pair plays a series of games to decide which player will progress to the next round.
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You will often hear backgammon players talk about equity. What is it? It is simply a rate - the rate at which a player expects to gain or lose per point, whatever stakes he is playing for. In match play, particularly when making doubling decisions, it is useful to know one`s match equity. This is the probability that one will win the match from a given score, assuming perfect play by both players.
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Money play is the easiest form of backgammon. Each game can be treated on its own merits and the only complexity to add to the equation is your opponent. You should adjust your play to take account of your opponent`s weaknesses and/or strengths, whether they are with moving the checkers or in handling the doubling cube.
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Any professional poker player understands the importance of acting according the weaknesses in an opponent`s game. For example, if an opponent never bluffs, you will call his bets only when your own hand is solid which you expect may beat his legitimate hand. Playing against this kind of opponent is easy; if you can`t beat a legitimate hand, you will fold.
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As time goes by, it seems that the backgammon online servers are becoming more and more popular. Today there are more backgammon online servers than ever before. Almost all big gambling companies have created their own version of backgammon for money online. Almost all big gambling companies have created their own version of backgammon online.
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While there are many different types of backgammon tournaments, both on-line and off line, there are some general differences in these events. Of course, there are the obvious differences of physically rolling the dice and moving the checkers, and looking into the face of your opponent that you have live.
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In most of the backgammon rules are well understood and never disputed. The game is one of total information, unlike poker or bridge, so there is very little opportunity for misunderstanding or, thankfully, cheating. It is very difficult, though not impossible, to control the numbers that you roll.
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The doubling cube is the very heart of backgammon and makes it the exciting game that it is. Without it the game might well have died off in the 1920`s. Despite the fact that it has now been in existence for eighty years it is also the least well understood and most difficult part of the game.
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