Author: Orad Reshef

If you’re just playing with your uncle who taught you, you’re probably playing for the immediate win. But sometimes one of you gets extra lucky and really beats the pulp out of the other. Shouldn’t that count for more? Enter Gammons, where a win is worth 2 points instead of 1. Gammon wins (also widely…

It will be hard to improve our checker play without being able to accurately describe specific positions or moves. So, before learning anything “fun,” we will learn some notation. Below is a photo of the starting position for a backgammon board: The triangles that mark where the checkers can sit are actually called points, and…