What are the Basic Backgammon Game Rules?
Here’s a concise list of backgammon game rules. Once you get to learn them after a few games, backgammon becomes very interesting. You’ll be looking at a fast-paced highly tactical board game. First part of backgammon game rules is the objective. The goal is to bring all your men to your home board and be the first to bear them all off. You will move from the 24-point (upper right point) down to the Ace point (lower right point) in something like a counter-clockwise direction. Your opponent will move in the opposite direction. Next set of backgammon game rules: Checkers only move forward along the board according to the dice roll (e.g. you rolled a two and four, move one checker two points and another four points, or move one checker a total of six points). Rolling a double means you double the number of points your checkers can move (e.g. roll a double two let’s you move one checker eight points forward or two checkers four points each). You can only land on empty points, points occup
