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<html> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" Content="Backgammon.htp#Backgammon_help"> <title>KSE Backgammon Help</title> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">  <a name="Backgammon_help"></a>KSE Backgammon Help <a href="Backgammon.htp#register">Product Registration</a> <a href="Backgammon.htp#page1">Rules</a> <a href="Backgammon.htp#page2">Moving checkers</a> <a href="Backgammon.htp#page3">Blocked points</a> <a href="Backgammon.htp#page4">Hit and re-enter</a> <a href="Backgammon.htp#page5">Bearing off</a> <a href="Backgammon.htp#page6">The doubling cube</a> <HR> <CITE>Copyright © 1997-2002 KSE Software (http://www.ksesoftware.com) All rights reserved. </CITE>  <hr>  <a name="register"></a>Product Registration <h6>Product Registration</h6> This is a 15-day-trial version of "Backgammon". The game can be tested for 15 days after installation on your Windows CE Device. If you purchase a software license from KSE Software you will get a Reg.-no. that will invalidate all restrictions. <h6>Registration Process</h6> When starting the game a dialog will remind you that this version is a trial version. Push the button "Register now", if you want to register the product immediately. If "Backgammon" is already running choose the command Register from the game-menu, then the register-dialog will appear. Insert your full name and press the Register-button. A new dialog will show you your registration data. Please insert the shown values in the registration form, which was filed on your desktop-PC during the installation. Please fill out the form completely and verify that the data in the fields User-Name and User-ID are identical with the values in the registration data-dialog of "Tetragon" on your Windows CE device. Send the registration form by email, fax or post to KSE Software. As soon as KSE Software has received the data you will be informed about your registration number. If you insert the registration number in the registration dialog and close the dialog pressing the "OK"-button, the trial version will be registered and will be converted into a full version. Enjoy the game!  <hr>  <a name="page1"></a>Rules of Backgammon Backgammon is an obstacle race between two players of which each has 15 checkers to play with. The checkers are moved around a track divided into 24 triangular-shaped divisions known as "points". The goal of the game is to be the first player to bring all of your checkers around the board and then off the board. The Backgammon board is divided down the center by a partition, known as the "bar" (see diagram), into an outer and home board. The side nearest to you is your outer and home board; the side farther away is your opponents outer and home board. The home board for the white player would be 1 to 6, for the black player it would be 19 to 24. The players will move their checkers therefore in a vice versa direction (white player from 24 to 1, and black player from 1 to 24). During the moves each player will be blocked by the other players checkers. When all checkers are assembled in your home board, they can be moved off the board. The first player to get all of his or her checkers off the board is the winner.  <hr>  <a name="page2"></a>Moving checkers and Doublets Checkers are moved by clicking on them with the pen, dragging them to the desired location and then releasing the pen on the screen. The computer will visually show you from which location the checker will be moved and to which location it can be moved. If the computer has hit any of your checkers, they will be on the bar. Each player’s turn consist of the roll of two dice. The player then moves one or more checkers in accordance with the numbers cast. If the dice roll is 3-4, the player can move one checker 7 spaces, or one checker three spaces and another checker four spaces. As many checkers as you like can be moved to one point. If the same number appears on both dice, for example 4-4 or 6-6 (known as doublets), the caster is entitled to four moves instead of two. Thus, if the dice roll is 4-4, the player can move up to four checkers, but each move must consist in four spaces.  <hr>  <a name="page3"></a>Blocked points A point is blocked, if there are two or more of the opponent’s checkers placed on the point. You cannot move your checkers on a blocked point, but you can jump around the blocked points if the cast die allows it. If only one part of the roll can be played legally, then you must play the higher die if possible, if not play the lower die.  <hr>  <a name="page4"></a>Hit and re-enter Checkers can only be hit, if they are single on a point. A hit checker will be removed from the board and placed on the bar. A checker that has been hit must re-enter with the next dice cast - if possible -. If a checker has been hit, it has to be re-entered in the opposing home board. A player cannot make any move until all of the player’s checkers that were on the bar have been brought back into play. Re-entry is made on a point equivalent to the number of one of the dice cast, providing that point is not blocked by the opponent’s checker.  <hr>  <a name="page5"></a>Bearing off Once a player has brought all of his or her checkers into the home board, the player can commence bearing off. A player cannot bear off checkers while that player has a checker on the bar, or outside the player’s home board. Thus if, in the process of bearing off, a player leaves one checker on a point and it is hit by the opponent, the player must first re-enter the checker in the opponent’s home board, and bring it around the board into the player’s own home board before the player can continue the bearing off process. In bearing off, you remove checkers from the points corresponding to the numbers on the dice cast. However, you are not compelled to remove a checker. You can, if possible, move a checker inside your home board a number of spaces equivalent to the number of the die. If you roll a number higher than the highest point on which you have a checker, you can apply that number to your highest occupied point. Thus, if you roll 6-2 and your 6-point has already been cleared but you have checkers on your 5-point, you can use your 6 to remove a checker from your 5-point. Gammon and Backgammon If you bear off all 15 of your checkers before your opponent has borne off a single checker, you win a gammon or double game. The number of points you win will be two times the number of the doubling cube. If you bear of all 15 of your checkers before your opponent has borne off a single checker and your opponent still has one or more checkers in your home board or on the bar, you win a backgammon or a triple game. The number of points you win will be three times the number on the doubling cube.  <hr>  <a name="page6"></a>The doubling cube Each face of the doubling cube bears a number to record progressive doubles and redoubles, starting with 2 and going on to 4, 8, 16, 32, 64. At any point during the game, a player who thinks he is sufficiently ahead can, when it is the player’s turn to play and before the dice are cast, propose to double the stake by turning the cube to 2. The opponent can decline to accept the double, in which case the opponent forfeits the game and loses 1 point, or accept the double, in which case the game continues with the stake at 2 points. The player who accepts the double now "owns" the cube - i.e. the accepting player has the option to redouble at any point during the rest of the game, but the opponent (the original doubler) can not. If, at a later stage the player exercises this option, the opponent is now faced with a similar choice. The opponent can either decline the redouble and so lose 2 points, or accept and play for 4, and he now "owns" the cube. Note: The doubling cube can only be used when it is the player’s turn to play and before the dice are cast. In the beginning of a game the doubling cube is available to both player's, but after accepting the double only one player "owns" the doubling cube.  </body> </html>