When you have a single piece on any point it is vulnerable. It is called a "blot".
If you put a second piece with it is is called "making the point". Same thing if you move two pieces to the same empty point.
If you have two or more pieces -- a "stack" -- on a point, it is called "owning the point".
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The playing piece of the game Backgammon is called a 'pip', a 'checker', a 'man' or a 'stone'.
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There are 24 points on a backgammon board. Backgammon is a two-player board game. Players take turns rolling a pair of dice, moving their pieces around the board. Backgammon is one of the oldest table games in the world.
A die. Plural dice
ABPA Backgammon was created in 1979.
The die you are referring to is actually called a 'doubling cube'; it is one way in which the stakes can be raised in a backgammon match. The use of the doubling cube only makes sense when a backgammon match is played to more than one game. The use of a doubling cube does not necessarily mean that a backgammon match is being played for money.
Backgammon is a two-person board game.
ABPA Backgammon was created in 1979.
ABPA Backgammon happened in 1979.
Backgammon, the board game, has no synonym. But, backgammon has different names in different languages: Tric-Trac in French, Puff or Poof in German, Gamao in Portuguese, Tavla (tables) in Turkish... Backgammon also has a second meaning of a triple score in the backgammon game.
Emotional Backgammon was created on 2003-##-12.