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?

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?

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

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!)