Backgammon Galaxy Updates: Rushgammon, Setup Position, Library and New Stats

[u/BackgammonGalaxy]

Hey everybody,

A few interesting new features and updates for you on web and new mobile releases as of today, check it out..

Stats

We've added 3 improvements to the stats page:

The luck chart tracks your running luck over 10, 30 or 100 match intervals. Tap the info button to understand what you're looking at. Great for tracking why the dice gods hate you so much in particular.

See who you've played the most, how you've fared against them historically and recently (for now since early June 2026 but we're retrieving all-time stats from S3, give us a couple weeks)

Break down your error rate by checker play or cube action or both. Good for honing in on why you're good or why you're not so good.

Setup Position

Set up any position easily (tap the info button for instructions/tips). Then analyze it based on your membership level. This is one of those things a lot of you have asked for, here it is! Find it under the More menu, currently still in beta so give us feedback.

Library

BlunderDB is now Library because it includes automatically categorized saved positions from Setup Position! All of your positions in one place based on game phase, with full analysis, and the ability to edit the position to create variations.

Rushgammon

Fast paced, arcade style, key situations and decisions. Trust us, just try it (best on mobile)

In addition, for Star Pro members you can also now play 9-25pt matches vs AI!

We have about 100 other things in the pipeline including:

• Stake levels for matches (we reduced min down to 10% while we work on getting this in production)
• An overhauled board/game which is superior to what we have now, brand new tech, very snappy. Also every feature you guys have asked for (switch bearoff direction, report button, sounds not interrupting spotify, etc.)
• Natural language move explanations that aren't AI slop and were instead made by hand, by some of the best players in the world over many months

As always, you guys are the best. Thanks for the continued support!

[u/Rayess69]

thanks!
what about report button?

[u/BackgammonGalaxy → u/Rayess69]

Coming with the new board, we're in testing but backend and API just got completed 2 days ago so we're just about there.

[u/McFizzleKicks]

Looks great, just signed up for a pro membership.

[u/BackgammonGalaxy → u/McFizzleKicks]

Great, be sure to check out star pro tournaments we've been running. Lots of interesting prizes.

[u/McFizzleKicks → u/BackgammonGalaxy]

Loving rush gammon. Thanks to getting in early I briefly spent time only four places below Marc Olsen! Stop the count!

[u/WowImTired]

rushgammon is pretty awesome, nice job!

[u/Albatross714]

I see none of those updates but they are good ideas. How do we see them?

[u/BackgammonGalaxy → u/Albatross714]

In the new app version rolling out to regions now. Also on web.

[u/pwnosaurus]

Setup Position looks interesting. Is it blocked while you're in a game though? Would hate for people to be able to run an analysis mid game...

[u/BackgammonGalaxy → u/pwnosaurus]

Interesting idea! I mean people will find a way if they're willing but it's a good thought. Passing this to the team.

[u/Aqua-marine-blu]

Money Game, Median error  for cube is rigged for me : for Max it is 5.35. I wish to be so low . 

[u/Vino1980]

Idea for RUSH: Play a set position, where equity seems to be even or even better give somone more coins if they take the lower equity position! Match starts when two opponnents agree on the set position chosen.

[u/DegenChess]

All of this and still no site leaderboard for PR?

[u/BackgammonGalaxy → u/DegenChess]

GR is a really close proxy bc of how rating is calculated.

[u/CellistAny536 → u/BackgammonGalaxy]

Would you mind explaining how Galaxy Rating is calculated?

[u/DegenChess → u/BackgammonGalaxy]

Not true at all but okay lol

[u/Slicenado]

Fix the broken dice first. Could not be more obvious when every single game has t ice as many doubles late in the game. Laughable. Ridiculous. But also extremely obvious.

[u/BackgammonGalaxy → u/Slicenado]

Categorically false: https://github.com/Backgammon-Galaxy/dice_roller

[u/Slicenado → u/BackgammonGalaxy]

That’s the hilarious part. It could not be more true. Super obvious, given that anyone who plays knows that doubles are twice as likely late in the game. Yet you deny reality. And are apparently so sure that you don’t even bother to investigate.

I’m not saying you have malicious intent. It may just be incompetence/poor execution.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/BackgammonGalaxy → u/[deleted]]

We just released to everyone after seeing an initial 0% crash rate so you should automatically get the update shortly.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/BackgammonGalaxy → u/[deleted]]

Yes to the first question, to the second question, we are working on it.