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Backgammon
is a simple game with deep strategic elements. It does not take
long to learn to play, although obscure situations do arise which
require careful interpretation of the rules. The playing time
for each individual Backgammon game is short, so it is often played
in matches, for example the first to five points. In
short, Backgammon players are trying to get all of their pieces
past their opponent's pieces but this is difficult because the
Backgammon pieces are scattered at first, and may be blocked or
captured by your opponent's pieces.
Each
side of the Backgammon board has a track of twelve adjacent spaces,
called points and usually represented by long triangles of alternating
colour. The tracks are imagined to be connected across the break
in the middle and on just one edge of the board, making a continuous
line of twenty-four points. The points are numbered from 1 to
24, with checkers always moving from higher-numbered points to
lower-numbered points. The two players in Backgammon move their
checkers in opposite directions, so the 1-point for one player
is the 24-point for the other. Some recorded Backgammon games,
however, keep the numbering of the points constant from the perspective
of one player. Each Backgammon player begins with two checkers
on his 24-point, three checkers on his 8-point, and five checkers
each on his 13-point and his 6-point.
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