Each player rolls a single dice each. The person with the highest number can use two dice for their first move. If you move one of your checkers onto a point occupied by one of your opponent’s checkers, your opponent’s checker is moved to the middle bar. They must move that checker before they can make any other moves. They can be moved onto any point that your opponent does not block. A point is blocked if your opponent has two or more checkers occupying the point.
Backgammon or Tavla is one of the oldest known board games for two players. Each player has fifteen pieces (checkers or men) that move between twenty-four triangles according to the roll of two dice.
