How to setup the Backgammon Board

Traditionally, backgammon is a social board game. Nowdays it is available online. It is recomended to play online to get the general feel of the game, and if you’re ever asked to play in real life, you should be ready to defete your adversary.

How to setup the Backgammon Board
Online gaming in general and backgammon gamin in particular, is fast becoming popular, simply because you can adjust difficulty of the game, play with players from all across the world, create new challenges, and play against smart computer programs, allowing you more oportunities to practice. The best part of online backgammon is that you can play at any time, with thousands of backgammon enthusiasts all over the world. Playing this way means you can play at any time, with no restrictions, no timeouts, only entertainment, fun and competition.
Let’s look into the backgammon board setup: it is easy even if are a backgammon newbie, in a couple of minutes you can get the hang of it. If you’re familiar with the game checkers, then learning backgammon will be even easier, as it is very similar to checkers, it has the same concept, but with a few differences.
The backgammon board should be flat, spread out in-front of you. Of course, online, this is done for you. Separate the checkers by color, 15 white checkers and 15 black. Each player should then choose a color to play with. Other playing pices include two dice and a doubling cube marked with 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 and 64.
The board is divided into four sections, each containing six triangles, called points. The board itself is divided in two by the "bar". The points should be numbered, clockwise, 1-24, with point 1 being the triangle in the lower right corner of the board facing you, which is your home board. After playing the backgammon game for some time, this numbering should become natural for the player, with a learning curve that is not too stip.
Remember that your home board is the area in the lower right corner of the board relative to you. As you will later discover, this is the object of the game; to ultimately get all your checkers, into your home-board, before your opponent does.
So, now that you’ve numbered the points, starting with 1 from your home board, and going clockwise to 24 on your opponent’s home-board, which is on the top right corner farthest away from you, you’ll now start placing your checkers. Place you checkers (ither white or black) in the following order: two checkers on point 24, five checkers on point 13, three checkers on point 8, and five checkers on point 6. Your oponent should do the same, in the oposite direction.
That’s it; you’re now all set to start the game. Make sure you read the rules of the game. Enjoy.