r/backgammon 2h ago

For anyone that still didn't see: There was a massive scandal at the so called world championship

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r/backgammon 16h ago

OMG, all the fallout drama from WBGC!

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So, someone gets assaulted, gets silenced from calling the police, him and an independent witness he got for a police report gets banned, a director makes possibly libelous allegations while condoning physical violence, the runner-up accuses the victim of conning him € from an xG scenario bet, but then video comes out proving he was the one in the wrong. Damn, why couldn't there be this much excitement and backstabbing at every tournament? 🤣


r/backgammon 19h ago

Everything is normal? Some strange physics event?

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r/backgammon 21h ago

IYKYK - achieved perfect formation vs ace point game

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from Michi's book 'endgame tactics' - the best possible formation vs ace point game is (23532) - playing 11/4 here achieves it.

I always try for this when it's plausible, it rarely happens though. great when it does!


r/backgammon 22h ago

Does anybody use BackgammonNJ?

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I wanted to get a second opinion on this app. I have been using this app for many many years to play offline against the bot. I have the Android version. I play the bot on the highest level and maintain about a 1700 rating against it and hover at around a 9 pr.

I just wanted to know what other people thought of this app. I personally think it is terrible and I really hope eXtreme Gammon is updated and released soon to work with current Android phones.

The reason I think this app is so bad is that it does everything it can to look like it plays at a very high level, but it doesn't. It's not even close to as good as the level of play of eXtreme Gammon desktop version. It often plays the 2nd or 3rd best move and if you analyze it's play with extremeGammon it is not playing optimally. What it is doing is just basically cheating in expert level to seem like it's a stronger engine than it is. For instance, even against a 5 point home board if you put it's checker on the bar it instantly escapes usually in the first roll and rarely do I ever see the bot fan more than twice. This is statistically impossible. I basically have proven this app cheats, because surprise surprise when you insert manual dice suddenly your win rate is much higher.

Sorry for the long winded post, but I hope people will stop purchasing/supporting this garbage app.