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# Backgammon
Backgammon is an old, very popular board [game](game.md) of both skill and [chance](randomness.md) (dice rolling) in which players race their stones from one side of the board to the other. It often involves betting (but can also be played without it) and is especially popular in countries of Near East such as Egypt, Syria etc. (where it is kind of what [chess](chess.md) is to our western world or what [shogi](shogi.md) and [go](go.md) are to Asia). It is a very old game whose predecessors were played by old Romans and can be traced even as far as 3000 BC. Similarly to [chess](chess.md), [go](go.md), [shogi](shogi.md) and other traditional board games backgammon is considered by [us](lrs.md) to be one of the best games as it is [owned by no one](public_domain.md), highly [free](free.md), cheap, simple yet deep and entertaining and can be played even without a [computer](computer.md), just with a bunch of [rocks](rock.md); compared to the other mentioned board games backgammon is unique by involving an element of chance and being only played on [1 dimensional](1d.md) board; it is also relatively simple and therefore noob-friendly and possibly more relaxed (if you lose you can just blame it on rolling bad numbers).
Backgammon is an old, very popular board [game](game.md) of both skill and [chance](randomness.md) (dice rolling) in which players [race](race.md) their stones from one side of the board to the other. It often involves betting (but can also be played without it) and is especially popular in countries of Near East such as Egypt, Syria etc. (where it is kind of what [chess](chess.md) is to our western world or what [shogi](shogi.md) and [go](go.md) are to Asia). It is a very old game whose predecessors were played by old Romans and can be traced even as far as 3000 BC. Similarly to [chess](chess.md), [go](go.md), [shogi](shogi.md) and other traditional board games backgammon is considered by [us](lrs.md) to be one of the best games as it is [owned by no one](public_domain.md), highly [free](free.md), cheap, simple yet deep and entertaining and can be played even without a [computer](computer.md), just with a bunch of [rocks](rock.md); compared to the other mentioned board games backgammon is unique by involving an element of chance and being only played on [1 dimensional](1d.md) board; it is also relatively simple and therefore noob-friendly and possibly more relaxed (if you lose you can just blame it on rolling bad numbers).
## Rules
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## Details
Despite chance playing some role, skill is highly important and there exist strategies and tactics that maximize once chance of winning -- for example a basic realization is that the different sums you may roll don't have the same probabilities, e.g. 8 can be achieved by 2 + 6 or 2 + 2 + 2 + 2, but 3 only as 2 + 1 -- one can account for this. The highest probability to take the enemy stone with one's own stone is when the stones are 6 places apart. Taking enemy stone while having own stones stacked in all places in enemy home board makes opponent unable to play (he is required to return the stone to play but there is no number that can do it for him). There is also some opening theory.
Despite [chance](randomness.md) playing some role, skill is highly important and there exist strategies and tactics that maximize once chance of winning -- for example a basic realization is that the different sums you may roll don't have the same probabilities, e.g. 8 can be achieved by 2 + 6 or 2 + 2 + 2 + 2, but 3 only as 2 + 1 -- one can account for this. The highest probability to take the enemy stone with one's own stone is when the stones are 6 places apart. Taking enemy stone while having own stones stacked in all places in enemy home board makes opponent unable to play (he is required to return the stone to play but there is no number that can do it for him). There is also some opening theory.
The game is internationally governed by WBGF (World Backgammon Federation), similarly to how chess is governed by FIDE.