Backgammon "Nuts and Bolts"
If luck and skill seem intact today, then why not try a game of backgammon? It is easy to play and win, especially if one feels lucky.
Two players get to enjoy playing backgammon at a time. Others can also enjoy as spectators or cheerers. If everybody wants in, then it's a chouette they want. It's a backgammon for many players. Each player has 15 men or checker chips. The backgammon game board has 24 spaces or slots or points which are triangular in shape and colored differently in alternates. Each player must occupy or save as many spaces as they can. Dice are thrown. The checker chips are moved according to the number that the dice result shows.
Now, the point in all the dicing and moving of checker chips in backgammon is for each player to move his chips across to the side of the opponent first. Pretty much like a simple game of Chinese checkers. But backgammon has some complications. Enemy checkers can be stalled or blocked or disabled or hit. This is done by backgammon strategizing for positions. A player must be able to occupy as many spaces or points on the backgammon board as possible. With this done, the opponent is limited in movement and backgammon winning chances favor more the player with more spaces saved or occupied on the board.
Backgammon positioning and strategizing, blocking or saving spaces on the board, has been around for 5,000 years now. Positioning is all about getting one's checker chips to move ahead and occupy spaces that will make way for other checker chips to quickly get to other position on the board. This continous until one's base on the other side is reached. Strategizing is all about planning a quick crossover and delaying the opponent to do the same.
The backgammon board is divided into 4 areas, each area has six spaces. These areas are the home boards and outer boards of each player. Home and outer boards are separated by this thing in the center of the backgammon board called a bar.
So if there are two players, players A and B, both their outer boards would be on the left side of the backgammon board, and both their home boards would be on the right side. So from this position, player A and B must each strive to get their checker chips to their respective home boards, and then bear them off.
Backgammon is a board game of luck, skill, and acumen. It is a race of strategies---whoever gets to the other side first---and smartly---wins.
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