Playing backgammon has never been easier

Backgammon could really might be the oldest known board game with a history going back more than five thousand years. The simplicity of the game and also the ease in which the backgammon rules can be learned, is a known key factor in the game's popularity. Although this game has developed a number of variants in different regions across the world, the various versions share sufficient in common to allow players who learn how to play backgammon in one country, to be soon able to pick up the rules of the game in another part of the world. Another important factor to take into account is the impact of backgammon gambling. Basically, even more than playing for fun, the draw of backgammon gambling has brought in many new recruits to the game over the centuries and provided motivation for learning the rules well.

With the literacy spread over the last 150 years and the increasing amount of leisure time, new possibilities for learning backgammon opened up. Besides the old method of sons learning from fathers, or learning by watching other players, people began to write books about backgammon. In addition, clubs at school and at meeting places such as popular cafes, starting to appear. These provided many new opportunities for becoming acquainted with the game and learning its strategy.