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Touch Screen Backgammon
3) occupied by only one of your opponent’s checkers. Your opponent’s checker is then removed to the bar.
point five.
• When all 15 pieces are in a player’s inner home table, the player must remove (or
Rules of
EachBackgammonplayer has 15 check- ers (The player has the white checkers, and the computer has the black checkers auto- matically). The checkers must first be moved around the point and into each play- er’s own inner table. The first player to remove (bear off) all 15 of his checkers from his inner table will win the game.
• Each player moves his checkers according to the numbers shown on the two diceYou. can move the same
checker• more than once or any other checkers in any combination possible.
• You must move once for the number on one dice and again for the number on the other dice, not the total of the two dice.
• Each player moves his checkers from his opponent’s inner home table to his own inner home table.
• When you have two or more checkers on a point (a closed point), your opponent is not permitted to land on that point.
• When you land on a point that is occupied by one of your opponent’s checkers, that checker of your oppo- nent’s is bumped off the point and is placed on the bar in the middle.
• When you throw doubles, you can make four moves total. You can make four moves with the same checker or move any other checkers in any combination possible.
• You may move to any point that is:
1) none of any other checker;
2) occupied by one or more of your own checkers or
• When all 15 checkers are in a player’s inner home table, the player can begin to bear off the checkers from the point.
• If one of your checkers has been placed on the bar, you must
bear off) the pieces from the point. If a number thrown is higher than any points occu- pied by the player’s pieces, then player may bear off from the highest occupied points.
To bear off the checkers, see the diagram 2 below. In diagram 2, if a six and a four are rolled, a checker from the
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