I just lost a 3 point tournament match to an 870 rated player who played the match at 1.08 pr. Everyone can get lucky once in a while, but I see this fairly often.

Are some players purposely sabotaging their ratings so they look weaker when they play unrated single games and tournaments? Is it really worth the trouble? Am I just crazy?

Ok I know that mathematically and statistically the dice in apps aren't supposed to be rigged, but I was playing XG Mobile and ran an experiment. I was playing with the digital dice for a couple days and just was getting absolutely trounced constantly. I discovered that you can run manual dice and tried it out... rolling real dice for myself and the computer. I used precision dice I got from backgammon galaxy. It was like night and day. No longer was my every lone checker being taken to the bar and it seemed much more like a realistic game vs getting completely trounced at every moment. Could it really be that just by chance my luck completely changed when I used the real dice? I played a few games with the manual dice and it really was a completely different experience vs the digital dice on the app. How can this be explained?

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Hello,

Back in July I posted the first public version of boardbattle.io and I received some really useful feedback on my [Backgammon](https://boardbattle.io/backgammon) game. I took a lot of into consideration and made a number of changes and fixes, so I'm just wondering if anyone would like to test it out? No registration required if you don't want to, you can play as a guest, albeit unrated games only. There's not a huge amount of players currently, so it may be hard to find a game, but if you message me I'll be up for playing (I'm not very good mind!)

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Stuck on a 5 Pr. Most blunders are checker plays in middle games/end of games. Feel like I’m stuck on this Pr. Any advice on how to navigate checker play blunders while playing a 5? Any way to think/consider before making a checker play etc. any advice would be appreciated

Does anyone have a good recommendation for an arm/phone-holding setup for irl match recording?

I played a single 16pt game, with a great gammon position. Opponnent resign with only one point for me. Analysis advice to double with a 6 prime in my home.

What I have missed ?

Usually after a match the app gives me a rating and shows me some of my weaker moves and shows what the best move would have been. For much of today however it's not doing that. It does show the relevant screen but all the numbers stay blank and the analysis button is greyed out. Are others experiencing this, meaning it's maybe a server issue, or is it just me?

Specifically the 2026 new updated version from the website.

Anyone tried it?
How does it hold up?
Is it as easy to assemble and fold up as they say?

https://shop.backgammongalaxy.com/products/foldable-dice-tower?srsltid=AfmBOoqgqGHB9uApxzvakqzxn6bT6zDdoDcy7TzVsTtdjr-goWqAGQOX

Hi. Does anybody know how to add sites to XG? That is, suppose I import a text transcript which contains the line

; [Site "BackgammonSage"]

I want it to recognize the site Sage as one of the sites available to play on and show up in the Drop Down (in the top right) of a Profile Page and I want this match to be assigned to that site.

Why aren’t there cafes, or hangouts where they supply various board games for people to come and play? Meet people, hang out, drink wine, tea, coffee etc…

Is it just me, or just this seem like an untapped need?

For those who have it, is it worth it?

I’m basically a noob who is keen to improve. It has a claim you improve faster but nowhere does it say what you actually get!

Has anyone played on the boards they’re using? They appear to be Manopoulos Grand Prix tournament editions. I have an FM Gammon Black Pearl and a Crisloid tournament attache so not really in the market but couldn’t find any reviews online.

https://www.manopoulos.com/products/luxury-handcrafted-wooden-backgammon-set-grand-prix-tournament-edition-red

Come on players in the Baton Rouge area, show support for our club , I’ve resurrected it after 12 years, looking for experienced and novice players,

In October we will be having our 2nd BG Tournament for Charity, Mary Bird Perkins Breast cancer ,
Let’s show support for a worthy charity

Mike

Second City Backgammon Club - Chicago’s premier backgammon club 🎲
Beginner? Expert? Or rejoining after a long hiatus? Everyone’s welcome at our Backgammon Socials! Find us on Instagram and Luma.

We hosted a Backgammon Social at kibbitznest in Chicago. Such a cool venue - highly recommend going there to read, work, or play games with friends.

More beginners this time around with a few intermediates sprinkled in. I gave a couple of Backgammon 101 crash courses, and it was off to the races.

If you haven't already, find/start a club near you!

Artgammon has some really awesome looking checkers on their website they are advertising as Bakelite. Anyone have a set of these they can comment on? Interesting how they compare to vintage bakelite and/or Crisloid, FM gammon style checkers?

Just had a couple of very good games against a pretty poor sport, but it ended well.

He beat me first game and sent the message “u just lost” when he won. Not v sporting but I put it down to language barriers.

Second game, I’m 3-2 up and he’s doubled me. We’re bearing off and with a couple of rolls left he messages “u lost again”.

I roll a double six and win the game.

He timed out…

I think a "rigged dice!!!" would be pretty funny

Hi all,

I've added a mode where you can play rated puzzles that adjust the difficulty as you improve. Every puzzle on the server is verified against my game's engine and top backgammon engines. I'd really love your honest feedback on it.

I also added dice stats and a luck analysis feature, plus a way to play the computer using physical dice where you enter the values manually, for anyone who suspects the game is rigged (a recurring allegation in my 1 star reviews).

And there's now a mode where you can run analysis from a custom position, and after each game you can review it for blunders and mistakes.

I've put a ridiculous amount of time into this game. Designing it, building it, getting it onto the stores, and fixing all random bugs along the way. Really curious what people think.

The engine I'm using (WildBG) isn't the strongest yet but it's solid, and I've got ideas to improve it or train my own that can be on par with or even better than the top engines.

You can try it on iOS here:
https://apps.apple.com/tr/app/backgammon-online-offline/id6761428153

or Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.backgammononlineandoffline.app&hl=en

Any feedback, comment, or note is hugely appreciated :)

I'm an intermediate player and make my fair share of blunders. A very cool feature for learning would be to have custom lessons pull from recent blunders or even different blunders categories. I like the lessons but many focus on when to double/pass. I feel like that would really accelerate improvement.