Wonderful videos! Thank you for making these.

And you sir (or madam), are clearly a man (or woman) of impeccable manners and good taste ;) Thanks!

@kcap2210 You're most welcome :-) I'm just glad people have been finding these to be useful.

Exactly what I was looking for! Thanks for taking the time to do this :)

you do such a better job than the other tutorial videos thank you so much :D

Thanks for this, I'm a poker player, and heard about a lot of pros that used to play backgammon (most notably Paul Magriel and Gus Hansen). I remembered we had a board in the basement, and my dad had showed me how to play about 10 years ago. The other videos I found were most certainly confusing, thank you!

Thanks for taking the time to comment. It continues to be greatly rewarding for me to hear when the videos are achieving their intended aim. :) Cheers.

I love backgammon and show your videos to my family so they learn and play with me.Thanks.Because I learned from your videos also.

@Ensor42

10 жыл бұрын

Really nice to hear, thanks :)

I should watch when I’m not tired 😬 great tutorials and will carry on watching ...

Just starting to learn with my partner and following your videos. Thank you for explaining simply. May be questions to follow!

@gamemeister27 Yes, quite a few backgammon players are also poker players, myself included. The two games have a sort of natural affinity, both being games of managed probabilities. If you're good at one, you'll definitely have a good grounding in the other to build upon.

@AceFrisbee Thanks :) The next few parts should be up next week.

Great tutorials! It's a hard game to explain at the best of times... well done.

@jameslampert Thank you for saying so, you're most kind.

Thanks :) I wish you success in rekindling your passion for the game.

Nice video

Hi. The extra normal dice would be for the other player - it is typical, though not essential, for each player to have their own dice. The die with numbers on would likely be the doubling cube, for which you can see a detailed explanation later in this series of videos (part 13, I believe).

Thanks for these videos. I played as a kid and loved it, but have pretty much forgotten everything. I found a nice board on eBay and am looking forward to playing again. Your videos are just what I needed!!

Great video. Helpful and well- explained.

Hi. No, not at all, in fact in some countries it is quite usual to only ever play without it. If you have the chance to play with it though, I would recommend you do. Playing with the cube adds a lot of fascinating and subtle nuances to backgammon, and I believe it makes for a much richer experience.

Hi, thanks for the kind words. To answer your question; there is no limit in standard backgammon rules to the number of a player's checkers that can occupy a point. Some countries play with variants that DO limit the number (usually to 5), but normally you can have all the way up to all 15.

Interesting ! Thanks for the Videos !

I've read instructions for backgammon atleast a dozen times, and they never made sense at all (and I was playing chess at what.. four, five years old?). But this way..? I might be able to learn. Thank you.

So easy to understand!

Good job!

"Slow" and perfect for beginners! When do you put up part 4?

love it

very very good!

Thx for the help

good job

Sam from game of thrones talking! I knew I recognized your voice.

If I am red i have 6 checkers already in my home board at the start??

Hmm, yes, I can see some similarities. No bad thing, I would say.

Thank you! :`-)

This guy sounds like Sam from game of thrones

@candypencils68

7 жыл бұрын

schmach345 omg IKR i was just thinking am i the only one. Wondering what if he is sam :o :p

@priyankalasingh4428

5 жыл бұрын

Nice

I customize the game by not using the opening position

So hard game

sorry man i had to speed the video up to 1.25 just holy cow

just one question do you have to have the doubleing cube to play backgammon???

How do you know which color is yours? Why didn't you show how to set up the board for playing.

@Ensor42

10 жыл бұрын

Hi. The set up position for backgammon is the same for every game, and is the one shown in the video. I wanted to explain things in slow detail, but at the time I felt that making a specific video where I place checkers in the opening position would have been a bit unnecessary as players could easily reproduce the position shown by themselves. A player's colour is chosen or assigned before the game, and here, the camera shows red's perspective.

@JooBall

9 жыл бұрын

This part three bud read the title

One question: so if there are 5 checkers on one point, does that mean that you can't put any more pieces there when you make a move?

@bekirballi6455

7 жыл бұрын

Annalyn Donaldson Nope it doesnt

is there any advantage in having the 1st roll ?

Why does each side. begin with five pieces already in their home board? Doesn't that mean that the only movement those pieces ever make is to be borne off, and not actually be involved in the play?

It's kind of like a more fucked up version of ludo really. Ludo 2.0 if you will. Thanks!

can I play the game without the doubling cube?

@DavidKlausa

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, if you're just learning you might want to wait to introduce the cube. But eventually you should - the game is much richer with the cube.

just watched 1 and 2 and already confused lol, thought in 1 you said we move clockwise, yet if your playing the red here you moved counterclockwise??

@susanmccomber4199

10 жыл бұрын

crap i hate going back lol

@Ensor42

10 жыл бұрын

Hi :) What I said in part one was that one player moves in a clockwise direction, whilst the other player moves in an anti-clockwise direction. Sorry for any confusion.

@susanmccomber4199

10 жыл бұрын

yes you did but when you shook and moved as the red checker you moved counterclockwise, lol sorry i'm going back after my coffee to check, great tutorial and i want to learn fast & bad, thank you

@jessicalisrosa

5 жыл бұрын

susan mccomber . How do you decide which player goes clockwise and which player goes counter-clockwise ..

@Doomsday2060 Here I'll fix that up for you : You should of taught me English, I might of learned something then. :D

lol chess its less complex

u shud ave tought me english i mite of learnt somethin thn