How many pieces does each player have in backgammon?
Backgammon Backgammon Backgammon is one of the oldest known board games. Its history can be traced back nearly 5,000 years to archeological discoveries in the Middle East. It is a two player game where each player has fifteen pieces ("checkers") which move between twenty-four triangles ("points") according to the roll of two dice. The objective of the game is to be first to "bear off", i.e. move all fifteen checkers off the board. Backgammon is a member of the tables family, one of the oldest classes of board games. Backgammon involves a combination of strategy and luck (from rolling dice). While
Backgammon began a collaboration with Voice of Backgammon, authorizing its grand-masters to provide expert commentary with Shiller. Voice of Backgammon expert co-hosts have included backgammon champions and personalities such as Matvey Natanzon ("Falafel"), Paul Magriel, Masayuki Mochizuki ("Mochy"), and Akiko Yazawa. When backgammon is played for money, the most common arrangement is to assign a monetary value to each point, and to play to a certain score, or until either player chooses to stop. The stakes are raised by gammons, backgammons, and use of the doubling cube. Backgammon is sometimes available in casinos. Before the commercialization of artificial neural network programs,