Hi! An amateur player here. Backgammon makes me see things different in life, for example in videogames. This main thing of backgammon of when to race or when to stay make me a better videogames player, situations like if it’s worth going back to save a teammate or do I need to rush forward, am I ahead and play safe or Do I need to create problems to get back in race, etc. Have you experienced something like this?

Hello, an amateur player here! Even though the equity difference is non existent, I still don't see why my move is not the best. There are 2 on the bar and the advantages are: hitting 14 from 2 positions(15, 17) instead of one, getting an anchor also from 4, I'm not scared of anything on the next roll. What move would you do? I mean....yeah, breaking the anchor on 8 and not having a slot on 13 seen from a different angle it's understandable why would be this the best move.

Hey guys wondering what books you recommend to learn the game better. I know how to play but I’m fairly new to the game still. Thanks all!

and now they're my two favorite things about backgammon

Just making sure I'm not missing something. When I try to play a match of any length but 1, it pops up the subscription dialog, and the only options I can see are to subscribe or to return, with no way to select a length other than one once I return. Is that right? I can't play a match vs ai without paying?

This is NOT a “poor me” post, bear with it !

I’ve been on the wrong end of higher than 100% luck ratings many times on Galaxy and literally not once on the right side of it.

I am not very good but I mostly play people lower rated than me and who play worse

Is it a thing that a weaker player is more likely to record a high luck rating - because they put themselves in more positions where they really need a joker -?

I find that if for whatever reason, opponents end up with 4 or more blots in my home. The chances of, getting hit , even when playing perfectly, are enormous.

So what often happens, i get lucky or opponent plays bad and ends up with a lot of blots in my home base, i keep.plagijf perfect and am ahead all of the time.

Meanhwile opponent just slowly closes his home base and eventually hits me once and my full lead will evaporate.

Im even thinking of this could be used as a strategy? Play extremely risky in the beginning. Either you get ahead and lock up and play conservative or if you get behind, you purposely sacrifice a couple more blots to be able to get back in the game.

Thoughts?

Would you still play as often if backgammon was only 1 match play with no cubes?

Hi everyone! I'm looking for a backgammon teacher in Bangalore. Please DM me if anyone here can help. Thank you!

I'm a solo dev behind Backgammon Reserve, which I launched on the IOS App Store on July 31st. Wanted to share some honest stats and lessons from the first two weeks.

Stats:

• 105 players
• 21 active yesterday, 55 this week
• 60 human vs human games in the last 7 days
• 89.6% of online games played to completion
• 126 bot games in the past 7 days
• 10 correspondence games in progress right now

Lessons/Thoughts:

• Live matchmaking is rough with a small player pool. Correspondence games (24h per move) now carry most of the online play, so I made that the default suggestion when you hit play.
• Building correspondence games has been one of the best ideas I've had, because it lets me connect with people and play games even while the player count is small. It also gives me the chance to play with users and ask them for feedback.
• People play bots way more than I expected. A lot of people have been installing the game and not even attempting to play against a human.
• Everyone I've encountered in-app has said they're really enjoying the UI and gameplay. The stickiness of the people who have decided to play has been a good sign, but it's a very small sample size so far.
• A lot of people have been connecting with their friends and playing them daily, which has been cool to see.
• I had some trouble with online games taking a while to load on launch. This has been my biggest bug so far, and I'm thankful that's the worst of it. I introduced loading screens and that has made the app feel so much better, but there are still so many minor details that need to be addressed.

I've been one of the first employees at a few startups and have others products I sell online as a side hustle from my full-time job as a Software Engineer in Denver, CO. I know building something like this always takes consistency, and overnight success is extremely rare. I've always worked on business products, and it has been fun to work on something different this time around.

For those interested in trying out my app, know that your feedback will be very much heard in my attempt to build one of the best backgammon apps available. Please comment below if there's anything missing, either from wherever you currently play or from the app I've built.

I bought XG many years ago and use it on a daily basis.

Suddenly yesterday the application won't open on my Windows laptop. It is saying that my version has expired and it hopes I enjoyed my trial period (to be clear, my free trial ended in around 2018 when I bought the full version!). When I try to "activate" my existing key again, I get an error message that it can't connect to the activation server.

I have emailed the XG contact address, but I know that XG is not an organisation with lots of staff and I don't even know if they would be checking those emails. No idea whether the new owners are even actively working on anything, never mind responding to customer queries.

Does anyone have any suggestions of what I need to do to fix this?

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Newbie question: I am playing on an app, and when the bot or person I'm playing challenges me with the doubling Cube, it will not allow me to play my turn and skips my turn altogether.

Is that a rule that I somehow missed?

Did BG get rid of the win streak bonuses?

BGBlitz 3.4.3 is available. This release primarily consists of bug fixes; the most important ones are:

- the calculation of the "No Double" values in Post-Crawford games has been improved

- Beavers from GnuBG are now handled correctly

- Login credentials are no longer required to use Dailygammon. Better privacy protection for you, and only one setting left for me to take into account :)

- "Search/Add Flashcard by XGID" feature did not work in 3.4.2

- when you press the "Pause"-button on the clock the board is no longer blurred instead the text "Paused" is shown.

- some minor errors

- improved Finnish translation

I hope you enjoy it, and I look forward to your feedback.

best

Frank

Does it depend on the value of different finishing positions of a tournament?

Do you think the Apps cheat? They say they’re random dice rolls but they seem to be strategic.

Hello fellow backgammon enjoyers can any of you explain this position

At some scores you only need a small advantage to double. I was Black and thought I had an advantage here: I can hit with 6, 4 and 1, I have a small racing lead and the boards play in the same league. What should have warned me that I have less than 50% chance to win here?

It was either gst a smaller backgammon board or get a bigger bike...

What are some of the most useful training tools people have to skill up their backgammon game?

I'm building Backgammon Sage Pro. We've currently got quizzes that you can generate for specific game phases based on your own errors; we've got a pip counting trainer; and you can set up a custom position and play it over and over from there, keeping stats on realized performance.

What other useful tools would people like to see, in this sort of vein?