Zone

How it works in play

Once your checkers have passed every opposing checker, they can no longer block or hit anything: they have left the zone, and from then on they count only in the race.

Related terms

• Contact — A position where opposing checkers can still hit each other.
• Race — A position with no remaining contact between the two sides.
• Prime — Consecutive made points (a 4-prime, 5-prime, or the impassable 6-prime).
• Holding game — Strategy of holding an anchor in the opponent’s territory (typically the 20-point) and waiting for a shot.

Go deeper

• Game plans: the tactics behind every plan
• Backgammon strategy, from first roll to bear-off

In other languages

• العربيةمنطقة التلامس (Zone)
• ΕλληνικάΖώνη επαφής (zone)
• فارسیناحیهٔ تماس (Zone)
• עבריתאזור המגע (Zone)
• РусскийЗона (zone)
• TürkçeTemas bölgesi (Zone)