Backgammon Glossary

 

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Backgame
Backgammon
Back Men
Bar
Bar Point(s)
Bearing Off
Block
Blot
Board
Builder
Burning the Pieces
Confrontation Game
Cooking the Pieces
Cube


BACKGAME: A strategy employed in hit when one is very far behind.


BACKGAMMON: When a player bears off all his pieces whereas his opponent still has pieces in the winner's home, if the game is hit. If the game is plakoto, moultezim, or gioul, the loser must still have pieces in his starting table. In all games the victory countstriple.


BACK MEN: A term used in hit to designate your two pieces resting in the opponent's home.


BAR: The middle strip of the backgammon board.

BAR POINT(S): In hit this is a player's seven position. In the other three games bar points are a player's five and seven points.

BEARING OFF: The act of removing your men (pieces) from the board after they have all entered their final destination.


BLOCK: A position on the board that you occupy and that cannot be used by your
opponent. In hit and plakoto you need two or more pieces on a position for a block. In moultezim and gioul you need one or more.

BLOT: A term used in hit and plakoto to denote a single piece sitting on a position,
and that can be hit or captured.

 
BOARD: The entire backgammon table. This term is also used loosely to mean one of the four tables.

BUILDER: Each extra piece resting on a point. Also called a rider.

BURNING THE PIECES: When a player is forced to place all his pieces on the last two positions of their final table, when it is not advantageous to do so.

CONFRONTATION GAME: A plakoto game during which no player has captured
any of the opponent's pieces.

COOKING THE PIECES: The act of placing your pieces at their final table in a way that helps you in bearing them off.

CUBE: See Doubling cube.