Your tutorials are gold. Love listening to your accent, and you explain the game very systematically and concisely. Thanks!

Thanks for saying so - it was the hope to inspire others to share my passion for the game that was my chief motivation. Oh, and if I may say so, some of those piano pieces you have on your channel are quite superb.

@bilalzq It's a 15 inch board. Not a full size board, but easy to transport, and it fits the camera frame well for the videos. Cheap and cheerful.

This absolutely explains why I can hardly ever win games against experienced players that do the maths in their head. Although the really top players probably recognise the advantages of one pattern vs another without actually going through probability counts in their. Hopefully, someone here can tell us if that's the case or not. This also explains, why basic strategies can only get you so far. It's a game of probability as much as decision making. I must admit I haven't played the game for several years now, I'll have to find some players to play with I suppose. Which online game platform would you recommend? Question about rules: In the end game, is it obligatory to hit an opponent's chequer if dice roll allows it? It can change the dynamic of end game startegy when forced to hit as there are more chances of leaving a chequer exposed to a counter hit. I always thought that 5 was maximum number on a point, but I recently discovered that's not an official rule of the game. Are their different rules conventions? If so, when did these variations come about and why? I know I could find info on the internet, but your channel explains this so clearly, so you must be one of the best people to ask.

Nice sir!

@Ensor42 haha of course. thanks for the advice and thanks again for the beginners guide. i played a few games online, getting the hang of it, now on to your "beyond beginners" videos. hah

im just starting to play backgammon! good thing i play a lot of craps too! i can do dice odds in my sleep!!

@Ensor42 thank you so much for your videos. i just watched all of them and i got the basic jist of the game. the doubling is still kinda confusing but i think once i start playing i will understand the game better. my gf loves playing this game so i decided heck ill learn it too and surprise her on her b-day with a new backgammon board. so you think this would be a good size? standard?

@bilalzq Well, I'm fond of this board, but I think if I were buying one for a special occasion/person, then I would go for a little bigger and higher quality. You can pay quite a high sum for game boards - even my Scrabble board was over £300. It would really depend on how big an enthusiast your girlfriend is. I would advise; buy the best you can reasonably afford. A decent board should last a lifetime. You can't put a price on love, right? ;)

Great tutorials. Question, if you have two checkers on the bar at the same time, you roll both dice, and the pips correspond to two open points, can you enter both checkers, or are you only allowed to enter one at a time?

@sum1sw

8 жыл бұрын

both

what size is this baord?

Wait wait I'm confused , lets recapitulate .... If some one would ask me to throw with one dice a 4 and asked me how many changes I have to throw a 4 I would say 1 change . Now ....... we have to 2 dices in backgammon so with the other dice I can throw also a 4 . 4 dice 1 and 4 dice 2 = 2 changes . Because there are 6 numbers on one dice and we play with 2 dices we can do combinations with it to get 4 and these are ... 3-1 and 1-3 = 2 changes or 2-2 = 1 change or 1-1 = 1 change So what do we have , 2+2+1+1 = 6 changes out of the 36 . En light me here because if you are gonna say that 4-1 , 4-2 , 4-3 , 4-5 , 4-6 and 6-4 , 5-4 , 3-4 , 2-4 , 1-4 ( this would be a total of 16 changes ) than I would you refer to the first 2 changes I all ready have the 4-4 2 dices where one of the 2 dices is already a 4 .

so he is 10 off if stays there - so other guy has only 4 chances to hit him - 5,5 and 6,4 - oh maybe just 3 chances?

Why are you forced to play the 6 first,again?

@thomaswilkes9831

6 жыл бұрын

Garrett Stewart Becuase it is the only red chequer capable of moving 6 spaces (all the rest can only move 5 or less).

@GretSeat

6 жыл бұрын

Thomas Wilkes but there is a 1 as well?

@JohnQSpartan

6 жыл бұрын

Because the only decision is in the 1. Of course you can use the 1 first if you want, moving either the checker outside your home board or one in your home board ... but then you are still forced to use the 6 on the one outside. He just used the 6 first for the sake of the example, as the 1 (and whether he kept the checker 3 or 4 pips away) was the big decision. Hope that helped. I'm just a beginner too.