| Backgammon
Rules
This section will explain in detail Backgammon rules. If you are very experienced at playing Backgammon then you may opt to skip this section. If you are new to Backgammon or have not played Backgammon in some time you will want to review this section carefully. Backgammon consists of a board, 30 playing pieces, 15 of each color, a doubling cube and dice. The object of Backgammon is to move all of your pieces around the board, from your opponent's home board to his outer board, to your outer board and then to your inner board. Once all of your pieces have been moved to the inner board your object is to bear the pieces off of the board and into the slot located to the left of the pictured boards. |
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| ' | The opponent to first remove his or her pieces has won the game. In the PalmPilot version of the game the board is set up so that white moves counter clockwise, black moves clockwise. | ' | |||||||||||||||||||||
| ' | Each piece rests on a particular stripe,called a point. More than one of piece of the same color may rest on any particular point. If two or more pieces of the same color are on a point, then that point is owned by that color and the opposing side may not land on this point. If there is only one of a color on a point, the opposite color | ' | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| ' | may land on this space. This is a favorable move for an opponent to make. When you land on a space with one opposing piece then you force that piece into "jail". This move is the crux of most strategy in Backgammon. When a piece lands in jail, it must be the first piece moved. If it cannot be moved out of jail because of the opponents positioning, the turn is forfeit. | ' | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| To Start the game press the "New" button at the bottom of the screen. You and your opponent will then roll a die. (Tap the dice at the top of the screen). The player who rolled the higher die goes first using what each player rolled as his or her roll. The dice are always thrown on the 'right' | ' | ' | |||||||||||||||||||||
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of the board. If the dice thrown are a tie, you throw the dice again. After
this point the dice are throw by each player and piefes may be moved according
to the die throws. If you throw doubles, you are allow four moves, or two
for each die.
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