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The earliest copy of the rules of backgammon are found in an epigram of Byzantine Emperor Zeno, who lived between 425 and 491 AD. With an age and pedigree of that magnitude, it's somewhat surprising that backgammon doesn't enjoy the elevated status of chess. Still, it remains a fun game that combines luck, skill and strategy to achieve success. Backgammon involves two players facing off on either side of a board.

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Unlike chess or draughts, a backgammon board has no squares. Instead, there are 24 narrow triangles called points, 12 on each side, which alternate in colour. The points are divided into four quadrants, corresponding to the "home board" and "outer board" of each of the two players, and a bar divides the board down the middle, between the home/outer quadrants.

In these areas, each player arranges their 15 draught-like pieces according to a pre-determined layout, and attempts to advance toward their home board, from where they can remove all their pieces from the board. Every online gambler deserves a safe and fair place to play. Our mission at is to create a safe online environment for players through free, impartial and independent reviews of the UK's best online gambling companies so that you can play with confidence and security. All ratings and reviews are made independently of the operator by our team of gaming experts and with every company being fully UK licensed they can be trusted to offer fair play.

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So if the white player's home board is on his/her right, the black player's home board will be on his/her left Each player's points are numbered 1-24, starting at the first point of their home board and ending at the final point in the opponent's home board. Pieces are arranged as follows: two pieces on point 24, five on point 13, three on point eight and five on point six. Players roll one dice each, and the highest number starts – if the numbers are the same, repeat until they differ.

The player with the higher number plays his/her first move using the current roll. Subsequent movement is dictated by repeatedly rolling the dice The objective of the game is to move all of the pieces into the home board, and then to bear them off.   The winner is the first player to remove all of his/her pieces from the board.  

Dice must be rolled together, onto the flat surface of the right hand section of the board; if this rule is broken, or one/both of the die don't lie flat, the player must re-roll. A turn is considered complete only once the person in play picks up his/her dice.

A turn is accepted (as legal) when the next player rolls the dice for their turn. If a player rolls the dice before their opponent has finished their turn, they forfeit their roll. Once the game has started, players progress in a U-shape towards their home board, and their opponent moves in the exact opposite direction.

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Each dice represents one move, so if a five and a three are rolled, the player must move one piece five spaces toward their home board and then another three. The same piece may be moved twice, amounting to a move of eight. If a double is rolled, each dice represents two moves: ie double six would mean four moves of six spaces. A piece can only move onto a point that is not already occupied by two or more opponent pieces (an "open point"). Players may not move pieces backwards, away from the home board. A point occupied by just one piece is called a "blot", and it's open to a strategic attack called a "hit". When a player can move a piece onto a blot, it hits the opponent's piece, which must be removed from the board and placed on the centre bar. Any player with a piece on the centre bar must move this back into the game via their opponent's home board before moving any other pieces.

If there aren't available points free to reintroduce the piece, the player forfeits their turn. Once all 15 pieces are in a player's home board s/he may begin "bearing off" (removing the pieces).