Backgammon
Many people often commit the mistake of thinking that backgammon is just a game of chance. On the contrary, backgammon is actually a game that requires skill for a player to master or even just familiarize themselves in order to go on winning in the long run. With its rule, one easily gets the wrong idea that in order to win this game, one only needs to read their opponent and imagine what their next move will be and looking at all the possible moves.
The goal of backgammon is simply to bring your army of checkers (either black or white, depending on what color you chose to be your army) into your home, and once it has reached your home, you can begin taking them off the board. The backgammon board has already what players need inside the board, such as the checkers and the dice needed in rolling and generating the number of moves. To determine who goes first, players will roll the dice and the one who rolls the highest number can go first.
The backgammon board has 24 four triangles on it called the points. These points alternates in color and each player’s moves will be determined by rolling of the dice. The outcome of dice-rolling will determine how many moves a checker can make forward. Since there are two dice used in the game, each die’s result can represent different moves. No two checkers can occupy the same point, a player has to temporarily remove their piece off the board.
The game does not end when all your checkers has reached home, the game ends when you have removed all your pieces in the board. This part is called bearing off, the last stage in a backgammon game. Backgammon means triple victory and it is only achieved when your opponent hasn’t taken any of his pieces off the board and still has remaining pieces on your home.