Backgammon terms
A Prime
A prime is six consecutive made points. If you make a prime in front of the opponent's checkers, he will not be able to get past you until you break one or more points of the prime.
A closed Board
A player who makes all six points of his home board is said to have a closed board. If you get one of your checkers hit when your opponent's board is closed, you are closed out and cannot make any moves until the opponent opens a point and allows you reenter.
The Ace point
The ace-point is your 1st point, the last point you can move your checkers to before bearing them off. Your two farthest back checkers start on the opponent's ace-point.
The Mid point
Your 13th point. Often called Mid point because it's the half point between your ace point and your opponent ace point.
The Bar point
The bar-point is your 7th point. It is the point next to the bar that has no checkers on it at the start of the game.
Gammon
If you bear off all fifteen of your checkers before your opponent has borne off any of theirs, you win a gammon, or double game.
Backgammon
If you bear off all fifteen of your checkers before your opponent has borne off any of theirs and they have one or more checkers in your home board or on the bar, you win a backgammon, or triple game.
Cocked dice
If a die lands on a checker, on the bar, or on the wrong side of the board they
are said to be cocked, then both dice must be rethrown.
Squeeze
To take advantage of the opponent's requirement make a move. You leave him a position in which the only move he can make hurts his position. Often this means he is forced to break a valuable defensive point earlier than he would like.
Stack
Four or more checkers placed on a point.(aka Candlesticks).
Straggler
The last lone checker heading for home.
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