backgamon Rules - Jacoby Rule
The Jacoby Rule makes gammons and backgamons count for their respective double and triple points only if there has been at least one use of the doubling cube in the game. This encourages a player with a large lead in a game to double, and thus likely end the game, rather than see the game out to its conclusion in hopes of a gammon or backgamon. The Jacoby Rule is widely used in money play, but is not used in match play.
If you want to learn more about backgamon rules, you can read more articles about backgamon :
- backgamon Rules - The doubling cube
- backgamon Rules - Beavers
- backgamon Rules - Raccoons
- backgamon Rules - Jacoby Rule
- backgamon Rules - Crawford Rule
- backgamon Rules - Automatic doubles