pauloaguia: You'd better think about what you just said about clockwise and how it looks to each player. That's like saying we have a clock laying face up between us with you at the 6 and me at the 12 and the second hand appears to move in opposite directions! My clockwise movements will look the same no matter where the observer is placed if he's looking down upon the game. How can we be moving them in the same direction? That's not Backgammon as I know it.