What is the home board in backgammon?
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Asked by: Kim Tapley
Backgammon Glossary/Home Board. The quadrant containing your one-point through six-point. It is the last quadrant your checkers move to before they are borne off. It is also the quadrant your opponent must use to enter any of his checkers sitting on the bar.
What is the best strategy for backgammon?
Top Backgammon Tips
- When you’re ahead in the race, race. …
- Don’t make stacks.
- Hit blots, make points. …
- If you have a choice between plays and one of them makes your opponent’s 5-point then do that – you’ll be right most of the time and even if you’re wrong it won’t be by much.
What is the secret to winning backgammon?
If possible you want to try to attack your opponent's checkers whenever possible when they are undefended. You also want to try to keep your opponent from being able to come out of home.
How do you get out of the middle in backgammon?
How Backgammon Works
- You can bear off a checker by rolling a number that corresponds to the point on which that checker resides. …
- If there is no checker on the point indicated by the roll, you must make a legal move using a checker on a higher-numbered point. …
- If you can make a legal move, you aren’t required to bear off.
Can you hit off the bar in backgammon?
And this is probably the coolest thing about backgammon whenever. They only have one checker on a point. This is called a block. And you're able to hit this it pretty much means it's vulnerable. So
