Q&A for How to Set up a Backgammon Board

No, you must move the checkers off the bar before you can move anything else.

Not necessarily. You can escape from the bar with either doubles or non-doubles provided any of the numbers rolled is an unblocked point in your opponent's home board. If you do roll doubles, you can move up to four of your bar checkers to that point, but if that point is blocked then you have to pass.

On your next turn, roll the dice and place your piece in the corresponding space in the first quarter of the board. If there are opposing players pieces on the spaces you rolled, you don't get to play and must wait for your next turn to try again.

Yes.

If you roll a number too high to advance any of your checkers forward, you can bear off your furthest back checker. If you just have a gap, like checkers on your 6 and 2 points, then you can only bear off if you roll a 6 or a 2; rolls of 3, 4, and 5 have to be played by moving a checker forward from the 6 point.

Read Win at Backgammon and its citations. Then download GNU Backgammon and play it in tutor mode.

You should use them separately to do it correctly.

As many of your checkers as you want, unless two or more of your opponent’s checkers are on the point. In that case, the point is temporarily claimed by the opponent.

Yes you roll again if you are able to use all the numbers given in the first double.

Four are used for playing the game and one is used to increase the bet of a game.

While this is technically correct, the board is generally setup from the perspective of the player whose home board in on their right.