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Normalized Scoring
There are words and phrases that simply fail to capture the imagination, even if they have some relevance to what you are doing. The term Normalized Scoring in backgammon has exactly that sort of effect. |
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The Myth of Dice Memory in Backgammon
Is it possible that dice have a memory? Of course not, but some players will assume that something akin to memory is at work with dice, saying things like "I'm due for doubles" and "I know I'm supposed to get Five Four once every so many tries, and I haven't in the last dozen rolls, so it must be coming." |
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Study and Practice Good Opening Moves to Have More Backgammon Success
The opening move can help you to do your homework and mentally prepare by knowing the key possible opening moves. So now let's hear from veteran backgammon player Phil Simborg, taking some cues from an article he wrote titled, "How to Play the Opening Moves." |
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The Roll of Dice in Backgammon - Art or Science?
You can't play backgammon long without developing a style or personality in your performance or playing protocol - it's bound to happen. |
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You Lose Points If You Don't Know a Gammon from a Backgammon
One of the more common mistakes by rookie or new backgammon players is in thinking that when they win or even when they play or bear off all their pieces in victory while leaving their opponent with no pieces of theirs played out but still in their home court or side of the bar that it is a "backgammon." |
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Let the Backgammon Dice Fall Where They May, But in the Proper Arena
It doesn't matter whether you are left- or right-handed with your cast; it doesn't matter how long you shake them; and you are assessed no penalties for your style of rolling the backgammon dice - but you do have to adhere to a few basic rules of the game in this area of play. |
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The Opening Backgammon Game Roll - Who Goes First and How?
All is fair in love and war, you might have heard. It helps to be fair in games, too, including backgammon. There is a clear statement of this from the earliest possible moment of a backgammon game – the roll of the dice to decide who will move first, even before you begin playing. |
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Welcome to the Wild Animal Kingdom of Backgammon?
In backgammon, our playing pieces often go by many names – men, stones, checkers, and, pieces, to pick a few. Fair enough, we have to call them something. But why in the world would you occasionally hear a player yelling out, "Beaver!" or "Raccoon!" |
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Keep That Ace Up Your Sleeve
Going beyond the basic rules of backgammon can be an easy path to take, or it can evade some beginning players, depending on a variety of environmental factors. |
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Don't Be Overwhelmed, Beginners, Just Don't Use the Cube
Some of us started our journey into the wonderful world of backgammon with a certain amount of curiosity at this odd-looking board layout and the strange (we call it "unique" now) starting positions of the blots or checkers. |
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Please Note That a Pip Does Not Include Gladys Knight
The word "pip" is another common moniker for the exact position your checker or piece is on or moving on with your roll of the dice. |
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When Is a Player Officially Done With His Move?
For some of you longtime backgammon players out there this may be a non-issue - some may even call it a "no-brainer" - but how would you explain to a new player to the game when his single move or play (his turn) is officially over or final? |
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You Are Seeing Double When You Roll Doubles
Have you ever stopped to ponder what non-backgammon people think when they stop and take their first look at our game in action? It makes perfect sense to us, but to those first-time onlookers our game can look rather strange - and we are not just talking about the layout of the board. |
