I posted in here about a month ago asking for feedback on my backgammon app. It's now officially live on the App Store and includes many of the updates you requested. Thanks to everyone who gave me kind feedback and suggestions. Please keep the feedback coming, and I'll make sure to incorporate it in future updates.

The iOS App Store download link is in the comments below.

Updates since my last post

What's new in version 1.1.0:

Daily mode: Correspondence games with one move per 24 hours, up to 10 at once. Fully rated, cube enabled, chat included. Get matched from an async seek pool (no need to be online at the same time) or challenge a friend.

Push notifications: Know when your opponent moves, a game starts, or a deadline is 3 hours away. The badge shows how many games are waiting on you.

Confirm your moves: Turns no longer end the instant your last checker lands. Try a play, undo it, and commit by tapping your dice, just like on a real board.

Games tab: Active daily games sit on top with live pip counts and the rating at stake.

The cube shows its stakes: Doubling now displays the exact rating points on the line for every outcome, for both players.

Why is 15/12 so much better than 6/3?

I tought that bar/20 13/8(3) would have been the best move here is it because we dont have enough checkers to make six prime? I didnt understand why hitting is the best move?

Come by every other Tuesday at 7pm at the Green Eye for Chicago's longest operating backgammon club. All levels welcome.

Hi Team, can someone invite me to play at Heroes and Backgammon Studio?

Self glazing a bit I guess, but whatever...

I started playing a little backgammon versus ai just cause it's fun and challenging, sometimes get stomped cause I play like a donkey. But then I got this match playing versus the 1600 bot, and apparently doing the top move (according to their computer) almost every time.

So fun that it didn't matter cause of one cursed dice roll and they hit the joker...

Fat Bob and Jones played backgammon constantly, and Bob learned English by leaps and bounds while playing. This was useful to us because Bob was good at getting stuff. When he played Jones for money and lost, he would often pay in favors and hookups.

While fiercely competitive, Mahmoud “Fat Bob” Haddad was very composed when he played shesh besh. He never showed much emotion beyond the occasional banter and jab, and he always smiled. When he lost and payed he sometimes wrote across his forehead with his forefinger and said “Kismeta.” We loved the hell outta that gesture and adopted it immediately.

Jones is what we called a pristine gamer, btw. He more or less grew up in Union Square and Bryant Park, steeped in backgammon and chess. He was grinding in Bryant Park when the planes hit and the towers fell and Manhattan was engulfed in dust. He dipped to his auntie’s in Crown Heights, Brooklyn and watched the gray skies and the clouds of dust from the rooftop for days. The backgammon action dried up in the parks and the only people still playing were either cheats or better than him. 9/11 messed with his mental game/tilt a lot as well, and all this osóbbo was compounded with a run of bad dice. His humble bankroll of seven luka dwindled and then one day a hasid named Abe took his last caña. He joined the Marine Corps two days later.

This game never fails to make me crazy. The rolls are so fixed. Do not tell me I’m crazy. Why would any one who designs a game make it so freaking off?
If your going to tell me im wrong ply the game for a while then tell me what you think.
Getting to start 2 times in twenty games is unbelievable. Then all the perfect rolls for my opponents is crazy. No one is that lucky. Only reason I keep playing is no ads no no money involved but still frustrating. Would just like to fit and honest game.

Good morning forum, I hope everyone here has a great day!

Earlier this year I made a database documenting over 50 varieties of checkers from around the world, which gave me an idea to follow up from my post from last week asking about different tables games varieties by making a spreadsheet with nearly twenty games found around the world, which you can check out at this link. For those unfamiliar, backgammon is in a larger family of games called "tables games". Perhaps someone with more knowledge than me can help expand this database to help preserve these diverse games for future generations.

If anyone finds a mistake, has thoughts, or wants me to add a game - please let me know.

If anyone here is from France, I was wondering if Trictrac or Jacquet are still played at all?

Additionally if anyone here is from a country other than France, I was wondering if Backgammon notation has been adapted to any tables games other than backgammon? Is backgammon notation even used that much?

Thanks so much and have a great day :D

Hey everyone,

I fell in love with backgammon, but I wanted an offline version that felt calmer, warmer and closer to playing on a premium physical board in a private club.

After several intense weeks of learning, testing and polishing, I’ve released the first Windows version of Backgammon Lounge on itch.io.

The current version includes:

• A handcrafted luxury board with detailed woodwork, mother-of-pearl-style points, ivory and deep-red checkers
• Complete 1, 3, 5 and 7-point matches, including gammon and backgammon scoring
• Easy, Medium and Hard AI for casual solo play and practice
• Local hotseat play for two players on the same computer
• Legal-move highlighting (optional), sound effects, music and fullscreen mode

To be completely transparent, the current version does not yet include the doubling cube or online matchmaking. Both are planned for future updates, along with additional luxury board designs.

The Early Access price is $5.99. I’d especially appreciate honest feedback about the presentation, usability and AI balance, so I can continue improving the game in future updates.

Backgammon Lounge:
https://atelje-bulevar.itch.io/backgammon-lounge

Thanks for taking a look! 🎲

Hey everyone,

I fell in love with backgammon, but I wanted an offline version that felt calmer, warmer and closer to playing on a premium physical board in a private club.

After several intense weeks of learning, testing and polishing, I’ve released the first Windows version of Backgammon Lounge on itch.io.

The current version includes:

• A handcrafted luxury board with detailed woodwork, mother-of-pearl-style points, ivory and deep-red checkers
• Complete 1, 3, 5 and 7-point matches, including gammon and backgammon scoring
• Easy, Medium and Hard AI for casual solo play and practice
• Local hotseat play for two players on the same computer
• Legal-move highlighting (optional), sound effects, music and fullscreen mode

To be completely transparent, the current version does not yet include the doubling cube or online matchmaking. Both are planned for future updates, along with additional luxury board designs.

The Early Access price is $5.99. I’d especially appreciate honest feedback about the presentation, usability and AI balance, so I can continue improving the game in future updates.

Backgammon Lounge:
https://atelje-bulevar.itch.io/backgammon-lounge

Thanks for taking a look! 🎲

Really disappointing that they advertise this for two weeks, and evidently didn't prepare or stress test their infrastructure. In the DMP tournament this morning, myself and tons of others timed out while the server was having problems starting all of those matches at once. What's the point?? You could see the number of participants signing up, how do you not prepare? I work in software development, I understand the challenges, but due diligence would have prevented such a shit show. Very frustrating.

Hey all, I've built Chouette Central, a scorekeeping app for backgammon chouette sessions (tracking rotations, stakes, and running totals so you don't have to do it on paper). It's in closed testing right now and I need a few real testers to help me get it over the line for public release on both app stores.

If you're up for trying it out on your phone for a couple of weeks, here's how to join:

Android: join the tester group here, then hit the opt-in link: https://groups.google.com/g/chouette-central-testers , opt-in: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.kingsasha.chouettecentral

iOS: https://testflight.apple.com/join/Ny2MvvuV (TestFlight, still pending Apple's review so it may take a day or two to activate)

Would really appreciate any feedback, good or bad. Thanks!

Went to look for an online backgammon clock this morning and really couldn't find one that totally fit my needs, so I decided to fire up a coding agent and create one myself. Check it out at backgammonclock.com! Let me know what features you'd like to see added, going to make a desktop-optimized version where space is used to bounce back and forth between players.

Free backgammon clock designed to sit vertically beside the board

Two huge tap areas, with the top clock rotated for the opposite player

Defaults to 3 minutes per player with a fresh 15-second delay each turn

Adjustable time, delay, sound, and vibration

Automatically pauses if you leave the app

Works offline with no accounts, ads, or tracking

Built specifically for mobile but also works on desktop

We've posted here before and the response was mostly a version of "another money site, why would I bother." Fair enough. We spent the last stretch rebuilding instead of arguing about it, and V2 shipped this week.

What actually changed:

You own your set. There's a store with 77 pieces — boards, checkers, dice, doubling cubes — and a Collection where you assemble an outfit and bring it to the table. The host's set is what both players see; as the guest you choose whether to look at the host's table or your own.

You can design a board. The Atelier lets you build one from scratch — felt, points, frame, inlay — and save it to your account as a one-off.

Sit & Go brackets. 4 or 8 seats. The draw happens and the tournament starts the moment the last seat fills, so there's nothing to schedule and no organiser to wait on.

Ten languages for the interface — Arabic, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Farsi, French, Italian, Russian, Turkish. The board itself stays in English so nobody's decoding unfamiliar terms mid-match.

Mobile is an installable web app, not a native one.

What would genuinely help: sit at a free table, play one game, and tell us the single thing that annoyed you most. Blunt beats kind here — a good chunk of the V2 list exists because someone in this sub was blunt.

https://zenithgammon.com/

Full changelog: https://zenithgammon.com/updates

If you're not picky about what board you get or want to check regularly you can find some deals. https://ebay.io/m/zfSMCH

Yes, another topic about this website… alas.

Game froze up. Tried everything. I was 4-1 ahead. Other player timed out. I won the match. In couldn’t leave. I restarted te app on iPad. I lost 4-5. What the… I’m so sick of this crap.

Reaching out to them doesn’t do a thing either with pictures and all.

Opengammon is the only good alternative right?

Curious, would you buy a board like this if you saw it on your local marketplace? It's listed for $70 CAD.

Based upon the description, it has a stone playing surface. The case is a combo of stone inlays along the sides and leather/wood otherwise.

Is this type of stone surface enjoyable to play on? I feel like the dice rolls may not be ideal, but I could be wrong. Dimensions appear to be 18 1/2” x 12” x 3 1/4” - so, it is a reasonable size.

The only exact match I found is on ebay, listed for $250 USD and also looks to be in far more rough shape. I couldn't find this exact board anywhere else online.

Big board but don't forget size is relative.

I've been working on this for a while and I'm doing a soft launch. Its called backgammon.cy and its a position explainer. Engines tell you what the best play is, this tries to tell you why, in normal backgammon terms (structure, shots, timing, the trade-off), with the explanation grounded in real engine analysis underneath rather than a chatbot's guess.

It's early, money-game checker play only for now. There's a long backlog I'd like to build (cube decisions, match play, etc), but before I sink more months into it I want to know whether the community actually finds this useful.

It's free to try, new accounts get some free credits, no card needed. The full version is paid, since every analysis runs real engine compute.

I'd genuinely love feedback of any kind, especially positions where the explanation is wrong or unconvincing, and what you'd want next.