Backgammon – Introduction

• Introduction
• Board setup
• Game play
• Hitting and entering
• Bearing off
• Doubling
• Scoring
• Time control

Backgammon is a two-player game, played on a board of 24 narrow triangles called points. The triangles are grouped into four quadrants (holding 6 triangles each). Each player has fifteen pieces of his own color. The initial arrangement of pieces is shown on the figure below.

Pieces are moved according to roll of dice. The object of the game is to move all your pieces into your own home board and then bear them off. The first player to bear off all of their pieces wins the game.