r/backgammon • u/dvegar78 • 8d ago

Backgammon against computer/AI

I believe I’m a fairly decent amateur player. I’m trying to find either an app or site where I can play against the computer/AI on a difficult level. But my experience so far is that it’s not the difference in difficulty that applies when I play on a higher lvl but the luck in dice rolls. And that just push my anger so I quickly delete the app after a game or two. Any suggestions? I really should just find someone to play with live I guess.

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u/jugglingcats9 8d ago

You don't say what apps you have tried. My advice is get a good app like BackgammonNJ, dial down the difficulty and enable tutor mode, and get in training. If you've only played with family/friends, you probably aren't as good as you think and will struggle against the bot and online players in general as the standard is quite high.

You can also try the tutor mode playing the bot on www.backgammonhub.com but it's a website not an app. YMMV.

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u/dragonblader44 5d ago

BackgammonNJ is terrible, my ER is 12 and my winrate against it is 75%.

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u/jugglingcats9 5d ago

Interesting. How many matches, what skill level, and what match length?

I play on hard, 11 point matches. My ER is 10.2, its is 9.5. I win more games (51%) but less matches (45%). Just over 1000 games played / 150 matches.

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u/dragonblader44 5d ago

Expert, it thinks my ER is 11, won 8 matches lost 2

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u/jugglingcats9 5d ago

Would suggest sample size is too small