Backgammon - Rules & Practice
Published: January 17, 2008
I love playing board games like checkers, chess and backgammon. Only problem is that when it comes to backgammon I have no idea what I’m doing. What makes it even harder is that I have no-one around here that enjoys the game as well, so practice is out of the question.
Yesterday I decided that enough was enough; I went online to do some backgammon related searches. Of course Wikipedia’s backgammon entry came up time and time again but also some really interesting entries such as The WWW Backgammon Page – the first ever webpage on backgammon which has been online since 1994 (made by a then young Stephen Turner who now is CTO of ClickTracks).
Either way, through that search I found 1 on 1 Backgammon which features a whole slew of game guides for backgammon. They start easy with Learn How To Play Backgammon (which is where I think I should start again!), move through opening role moves and replies, and finish with heavy stuff like betting and game variants such as Tabula and Longgammon.
Hang on, did you just read the word betting? Betting?! Yes, betting. You can actually play backgammon online for money. Now, as you understand, a small part of backgammon is luck – but a larger part is strategy. Some of the online backgammon games are quite different so the community has created a site for that too; BGPrime where you can learn all the rules of online backgammon.
To practice the different types of backgammon games you can download free software from BGRoom (thanks for the tip, Dawes!).
I’ll be looking into these over the next couple of days and plan to write more about them later this weekend.
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