Backgammon

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Backgammon, a game of chance played by two persons with two dice, 30 men, or checkers, and a board marked off into four quarters, each consisting of six points, colored alternately in red and black or white and black. Each player has 15 men, all of the same color, but different from those of his opponent. The first, or entering, table may be at either player's left hand. The throw of the dice by each player in turn determines the number of those points on the salting and smoking-first quarter of, the board upon which men may be entered. A point is held, if occupied by two men of the same color, and cannot then be used by the opposing player; but one man may be removed from a point desired by his opponent, and he must later be started anew. After a player has placed all his men upon the first section, they may be advanced from left to right along that end of the board containing the entering section, and from right to left along the other end into the fourth section. Whenever either player gets all his men upon the fourth section, he may begin throwing them off; and the game is won by the first player accomplishing this result.