Past, present and permanent students know that there’s more than one way to study for an exam, for example. Some needs to talk it out loud in order to understand, while others won’t start off their studies unless equipped with a set of markers in (at least) three colors.

The same applies when learning how to play backgammon. Assuming that some of you BG newbies might just stare at the screen numbly if their first introduction to backgammon rules would be a long, elaborated article and others have trouble concentrating when watching backgammon how-to videos, Play65blog provides backgammon beginners with an additional alternative. Watch the upcoming series of backgammon slideshows and learn how to play backgammon.

First, start with an introduction to backgammon basics: the format of the backgammon board, the object of the game and some fundamental backgammon terms.

Next, learn how to set up the backgammon board for the opening position of the game.

Once the board is set up and ready for a play, the backgammon game begins, the dice are rolled and the checkers move but how and to where? Check up the backgammon rules slide-show to find the answer.

If by now backgammon seems like a children’s game, there comes the part where you hit blots and enter from the bar and changes the entire picture.

The doubling cube makes it even more complicated and even the last stage of the game, the bearing off, can still change the final result.

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