Bar point

How it works in play

Your bar point, the 7-point, sits just outside your home board, next to the bar. Made, it blocks the 6s of opposing checkers on your 1-point and joins your 6- and 8-points into a three-point block. That is why the opening 6-1 makes it at once with 13/7 8/7.

Related terms

• Point — One of the board’s 24 triangles. "To point on" a checker: make the point by landing two checkers on its blot.
• Prime — Consecutive made points (a 4-prime, 5-prime, or the impassable 6-prime).
• Golden point — The 5-point (offense) — or the 20-point as the defensive "golden anchor."
• Block — A made point that prevents the opponent’s checkers from landing on it.
• Midpoint — The 13-point.

Go deeper

• Opening roll 6-1, analysed
• Game plans: the priming game
• Backgammon strategy, from first roll to bear-off

In other languages

• العربيةخانة الحاجز (Bar point)
• ΕλληνικάΘέση της μπάρας (bar point)
• فارسیخانهٔ بار (Bar point)
• עבריתמשבצת הבאר (Bar point)
• РусскийБар-пункт (bar point)
• TürkçeBar kapısı