Learn to Set Up the Backgammon Board
For first time players, a backgammon board setup might seem complicated. Nevertheless, the process of setting up a backgammon board is not as difficult as it looks. In fact, here is a prepared instruction on how to properly accomplish a backgammon bard setup:
The initial step in completing a backgammon board setup is to make sure that you have the complete set of pieces required to start a game. Make sure that you have a backgammon board ready along with thirty pieces of flat circular checkers having two distinct colors of fifteen checkers each, which are to be divided between you and your opponent. A rolling cup is also necessary for a fair roll of a pair of dice. Lastly, a doubling cube becomes optional when the two players want to incorporate betting in their game.
The second step is to make sure you have positioned your backgammon board on a flat, adequately-elevated surface to ensure a fair landing of the dice and a proper angle to keep the checkers from sliding off the board.
The third step in completing a backgammon board setup is to make sure that the checkers are positioned properly on the board. However, before we continue this, let us discuss first the appearance of the backgammon board.
The backgammon board is composed of the bar, the points, the home board and the outer board. The bar is a thick vertical line situated at the middle of the board and divides it into two. The points are the twenty-four triangles which are also called points. Your home board is composed of the lower twelve triangles. Meanwhile, the outer board is the home board of your opponent. Obviously, the terms home board and outer board depends on your point of reference.
Now that we know what a backgammon board looks like, it is time to know how to situate the checkers properly. Get two checkers from your own set and place them on the upper right hand corner of the backgammon board, hence on the outer board. Then, on the upper left corner, also on the outer board, place five of your checkers. By now you should have seven checkers on the outer board.
On the part of your home board, note that there is a thick vertical line that separates the backgammon board into two. Place another five of your checkers on a point in your home board, or triangle, directly to the right of the bar. Then, skip one point on the left of the boar and place the remaining three checkers on the next point. The backgammon board setup will be complete as soon as your opponent has positioned his or her checkers parallel to yours, with each of the occupied point having a counterpart across the board.
Completing the backgammon board setup is an effortless task. In fact, the details of setting up a backgammon board will be remembered easily once you have played backgammon in no more than a few times.
