So the question arises, when does a player get to keep the box? The usual rule is that a player retains the box if he defeats the captain. Customs vary as to the rights of the team. In some chouettes, they may consult freely as to how rolls should be played.
Too much consulting, however, can really slow the game down, so many chouettes ban consulting. A popular compromise permits consultation only after the cube has been turned. Serving players. A not-for-profit organization devoted to advancing the awareness, participation, education and enjoyment of the skill-based game of backgammon.
ABT Online! Rules ABT Online! Backgammon Basics — And How To Play Backgammon is a game for two players, played on a board consisting of twenty-four narrow triangles called points. The triangles alternate in color and are grouped into four quadrants of six triangles each. The home and outer boards are separated from each other by a ridge down the center of the board called the bar.
Figure 1. A board with the checkers in their initial position. An alternate arrangement is the reverse of the one shown here, with the home board on the left and the outer board on the right. Figure 2. Movement of the Checkers To start the game, each player throws a single die. This determines both the player to go first and the numbers to be played. If equal numbers come up, then both players roll again until they roll different numbers.
The player throwing the higher number now moves his checkers according to the numbers showing on both dice. After the first roll, the players throw two dice and alternate turns. The roll of the dice indicates how many points, or pips , the player is to move his checkers.
The checkers are always moved forward, to a lower-numbered point. The following rules apply: A checker may be moved only to an open point , one that is not occupied by two or more opposing checkers. The numbers on the two dice constitute separate moves. For example, if a player rolls 5 and 3, he may move one checker five spaces to an open point and another checker three spaces to an open point, or he may move the one checker a total of eight spaces to an open point, but only if the intermediate point either three or five spaces from the starting point is also open.
Figure 3. Two ways that White can play a roll of. A player who rolls doubles plays the numbers shown on the dice twice. A roll of 6 and 6 means that the player has four sixes to use, and he may move any combination of checkers he feels appropriate to complete this requirement. A player must use both numbers of a roll if this is legally possible or all four numbers of a double.
When only one number can be played, the player must play that number. Or if either number can be played but not both, the player must play the larger one.
When neither number can be used, the player loses his turn. In the case of doubles, when all four numbers cannot be played, the player must play as many numbers as he can. Hitting and Entering A point occupied by a single checker of either color is called a blot.
If an opposing checker lands on a blot, the blot is hit and placed on the bar. Any time a player has one or more checkers on the bar, his first obligation is to enter those checker s into the opposing home board.
A checker is entered by moving it to an open point corresponding to one of the numbers on the rolled dice.
Figure 4. Figure 5. White rolls and bears off two checkers. If a checker is hit during the bear-off process, the player must bring that checker back to his home board before continuing to bear off.
The first player to bear off all fifteen checkers wins the game. Doubling Backgammon is played for an agreed stake per point. Each game starts at one point. During the course of the game, a player who feels he has a sufficient advantage may propose doubling the stakes. The Egyptians even had a mechanical dice box that would roll the dice for you—something later replicated by the Greeks and Romans—to stop cheaters.
The game is similar enough to backgammon to be in the running as a possible ancestor. Both also require that you first move all your men into your home sector before you can get them off the board. Finally, both pachisi and backgammon have solitary pieces as very weak, and multiple pieces as strong. Elsewhere in Asia, countries like China, Japan, Korea, and Thailand also had their own similar games. Of course, the Greeks made their own version of the game.
Sophocles claimed that their version was invented by Palamedes because he was bored to tears during the siege of Troy. Later, the Romans liked the dicing and boarding so much that they decided it was the sport of emperors.
Emperor Claudius supposedly had a set installed in his chariot so he could play it on the road. Marc Antony was reported to have played it with Cleopatra. And the infamous Caligula? Archaeologists found backgammon tables in the courtyards of just about every villa in Pompeii.
The game is played by two players each, with fifteen checkers of his own color. A doubling cube with the numbers 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 is used for tracking the stakes of the round. The board consists of 24 long triangles called points or pips. The triangles alternate in color and are divided into four quadrants of six triangles each.
The home boards and outer boards are separated by a divider down the middle referred to as the bar. The starting positions of the pieces are arranged as shown below. The players move their checkers in opposing direction following a horseshoe path as illustrated.
To start the game, each player rolls a single die and the player with the higher number moves first using both numbers rolled.
If both players roll the same number, the dice are rolled again until they roll different numbers. The players then alternate turns, rolling two dice at the beginning of each turn. The dice must always be rolled together and land flat on the right hand side of the game board. If it lands outside or on a checker the dice must be rolled again. An open point containing one opposing checker is a blot. Played by leaders of ancient civilisations in Greece, Rome, Persia and the Far East, there are few games that are as old as backgammon, yet which continue to be played today.
The exact birthplace of backgammon continues to be hotly debated, however, and there is evidence that the Egyptians, Sumerians and Persians all enjoyed a game that resembled something like the backgammon we play today. What we do know is that the history of backgammon is long, complicated and far from complete. Typically played on surfaces such as wood, using stones as markers and dice made from bones, stones, wood or pottery, the Romans were so enamoured with the game that they proclaimed it the sport of emperors, with Emperor Claudius going so far as to have a special board built into his chariot to play on long journeys.
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