| Learning how to play backgammon successfully is | | | | recognized as one of the easiest to learn and so you |
| probably easier to do today than in any other period of | | | | need not fear a long period of studies awaits you. |
| the backgammon game's five thousand year history. | | | | Nevertheless, there are certain areas that repay a little |
| We can imagine in the Ancient world the game was | | | | time investment. For the novice player, becoming |
| taught from father to son, or people learned the game | | | | familiar with how to navigate their checkers around the |
| by watching others play. There were no books of | | | | twenty-four narrow triangular divisions (points) of the |
| backgammon rules, not least because printing had not | | | | backgammon board must be a priority. The starting |
| yet been invented, but also very few people could | | | | position for the checkers is soon memorized and how |
| read. Closer to our own times, the game has been, | | | | to move them in accordance to the dice throws is also |
| and still is learned by many schoolchildren from their | | | | quickly learned. |
| friends, and backgammon clubs have become quite | | | | Once these basics of the game are mastered, the |
| popular. | | | | new learner is urged to take full advantage of all the |
| Since the first backgammon regulations were published | | | | practice opportunities online backgammon offers. The |
| in the 1740's there has been a gradual increase in the | | | | key areas the novice player needs to pay particular |
| literature available about the game, and the last | | | | attention to are learning the opening moves, and the |
| seventy years have seen many more guides to good | | | | subjects of hitting and building primes. |
| play and tactics published. However, the introduction of | | | | In addition to the material available on the |
| the free backgammon game on the Web has | | | | backgammon online sites, it is recommended to buy or |
| dramatically increased the opportunities for both | | | | borrow some of the many excellent backgammon |
| learning and playing the game far beyond those | | | | books that give more comprehensive information on |
| available previously. The Internet backgammon sites | | | | these principal areas of backgammon strategy. From |
| host free practice games, where you can take on a | | | | these sources the reader learns, for example, that it is |
| powerful backgammon computer at various skill levels. | | | | a good idea to try and occupy the second and third |
| In addition they bring together a wide range of | | | | points in your home board area at the start of the play |
| information covering everything from basic moves and | | | | - this blocks in the two checkers that your opponent |
| layout, to advanced backgammon tactics, | | | | has positioned in your home board. In addition, the |
| backgammon gambling tips and stories of some of the | | | | backgammon literature explains where best to hit the |
| most famous backgammon champions. | | | | opponent's blots - in the opponent's home area where |
| With all these new opportunities to learn to play | | | | these hits are the most effective. There is much more |
| backgammon via the Internet, in which areas should a | | | | information besides available online and offline for |
| new player concentrate their study? First of all, it is | | | | players keen on becoming backgammon winners. |
| important to point out that this board game is widely | | | | |