Classic Backgammon is a dice strategy game where you can play against another player or the computer. Each player starts off with 15 checkers that they must try to move off the board. Click the dice icon to roll the dice and then select a checker to move. When you select checkers to move the potential open spots you can move to are highlighted on the board. You can move two separate checkers with each moving the value of one of the die, or you can move one checker the sum distance. If you use a single checker to use the entire move you can stop at an intermediary open point in the middle which is equal to either die roll. If a point has 2 or more enemy pieces on it then that is called an anchor, and enemies are blocked from landing on that spot. If you land on a single enemy you knock them off the board and onto the center rail. They must roll the dice and put that checker back in play before they can make any other moves. When you roll the same number twice you get to move that number of spaces 4 times rather than twice. The move can be broken up between 1, 2, 3, or 4 checkers. You can't put any checkers into the tray until all of your checkers are on your home board (which means in the final quarter of the board). The first player to put all their checkers away wins. When you roll more than the number of spaces to the finish tray you may still make that move, provided you do not have a further out checker which could use the move. This is a JavaScript web application which uses cross-platform mobile-friendly HTML. All modern web browsers like Microsoft Edge, Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Opera should support it. This game works on just about any type of computing device including Microsoft Windows desktop computers, Apple OSX Mac computers, iOS powered tablets and phones like the iPad and iPhone, laptops like the Google Chromebook, and the many types of mobile phones from manufacturers like Samsung which are powered by Google Android.
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