Backgammon Online
Some may be surprised to hear that oldest game known to man is not chess. It is Backgammon. Oldest Backgammon sets found by archeologists are over 3.000 years old!
Backgammon is a two player dice game, where the aim is to remove your checkers from the board. This is done by first moving your pieces to the last quarter of the board and from there they can be removed with a die roll.
Strategy comes in to play from the fact, that your opponent is trying to achieve the same thing and (s)he is playing to the opposite direction - and not only that, but a single checker can be “hit” by opponents checker, which sends it to the “bar”. From the bar the checker goes into the beginning quarter of the board. So you try to manouver your checkers to the end of the board, while hitting your opponents checkers and trying not to get hit yourself! This online backgammon site has good, more detailed explanation of this all.
Backgammon can be played more ways than one. One of the more popular variants of backgammon is hypergammon. Hypergammon is played with just three checkers per player, so the game is fast and fun. The best site to learn more about this variant is simply named Hypergammon.
Backgammon and its variants may sound a bit confusing, but is quite simple in practice. It really is one of those easy to learn - hard to master games.
Now this old game, which still is very popular, has gone online. Online backgammon is played by tens of thousands of players, both for money and just for fun. Before you jump into the exciting, dice rolling, checker eating world of backgammon, it is recommended you catch on to some beginners strategy, so visit the link above before get started!
