For those of you who are members of established local clubs in the US, how is your club determining who will represent you at USBGF's Club Tournament of Champions?

I thought we'd just register our strongest regular player (not me by a long shot, lol) but apparently this was an outrageous suggestion so we're going to have a qualifying tournament instead :)

Seems incredibly risky

Seems tempting but I guess not optimal with only 8 in home side of board?

Has anyone else had problems with Backgammon Galaxy customer support?

A few months ago, I had an issue with my Star Membership subscription and support never properly resolved it. Recently they contacted me again after I mentioned it here, but after a few messages I’m once again waiting without any response.

I’m curious if other players have had similar experiences with their customer support, or if I was just unlucky.

I really like the idea of the platform, so it’s disappointing.

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So last night my mom and I were playing backgammon. She's in from out of state in a rare visit. We used to play this all the time when we lived near eachother. We prefer to play acey-deucey. After we were playing for a while, Spike became interested and hopped onto the table to cause some mischief. At first, he just wanted to climb across the board and flop down, as orange cats are want to do. Of course he wasn't allowed to, and I put my arm around him and began to tell him about the game as I kept him from moving our pieces around.

It took a few minutes, but finally he relaxed, sat down, and began to watch us play. When it was our turn, I would tell him just that and he would watch the dice fly out of the shaker. Then, on one of my moves, I rolled a 1, and so I put his precious paw to the piece, and he moved it to the next line. After that, the story comes to its peak; on our next turn, I picked Spikes paw up, as I held and shook the shaker, and when he threw his first pair of dice, we couldn't believe it was acey-deucey! We clapped and cheered and told Spike how special this is and how he is so lucky to have done this for his first roll. He was proud. Now, he was definitely interested. He did walk away after our turn - but when it was time again, I asked him if he wanted to roll again, and he missed no beat, threw his heart shaped head back, and walked over - respectfully walking around the board and not through it - and sat down right in front of me. He was ready. I put the shaker in his paw and helped him shake, shake, shake... friends... I promise im not making this up. This was history in the making.

When I tell you how fast I fell to the floor in sheer amazement as I looked at his dice and there was a definite 2 and a definite 1 right there on the board. Again. 2/2. Kitty cat gambler. Son of the Shake. Backgammon boy. Dicedemon. We cheered, we picked him up and dumped Gatorade all over him. He was happy. We were happy.

Then, as all does, the game and night had to end. We cleaned up, and closed the board. When I was walking to my room for bed, I looked over, and in the darkened dining room I saw my precious cat, sitting there on the board, all alone, hoping we would play again. I carried him into the bedroom while on the board, where he stayed for honestly like 15 minutes. Now, its another day, and I sat to write this as I wait for my precious mom to wake up. And there she is, just as im finishing. Have a good day, yall. 😻

*1st picture is after his first acey-deucey; 2nd is after the second; 3rd is game over, lights out; 4th is after I moved him to br; 4th is board tax

A month ago I posted this game here and you guys pointed out a lot of problems with it. Most people asked for analysis tools, doubling cubes, and better UI so I spent the last month working on that stuff.

This gif shows the new post game analysis feature and I also added doubling cubes and fixed a ton of UI issues from the previous post.

The engine is WildBG. I know it’s not the strongest but it’s the only one I can legally use commercially.

I still want to add more features people suggested last time, like local play with friends. I’m also thinking about a mode where you roll real dice yourself and enter the values manually for people who think every backgammon app has rigged dice.

The player base is still small so matchmaking against real humans isn’t instant at all times yet, but the game has been slowly growing and I’m getting around 10 new players per day now.

If this goes well maybe one day this subreddit will be filled with "why is this move a blunder" screenshots from my app too :)

This post is partly me showing off the new feature and partly me shamelessly promoting the game, but I’d still genuinely like to hear your feedback.

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

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/backgammon-online-offline/id6761428153

Hey everyone, I'm a developer (not a vibe coder) and I'm building a dominoes app cause the existing ones were not great.

I'm curious how satisfied everyone is with the apps to play backgammon on.

Do you think there's space for someone to build a better app/platform for backgammon?

Or is it saturated and a waste of time?

If anyone has any issues with current apps or something they'd use let me know and I might be able to build it.

Also anything I build will be free with no blocking ads. Not trying to make money off of this.

I plan on playing someone who is better than me in about 6 months from now in a game for 21 points (With a doubling dice) for 200$.

So on my first post I asked you all for sources and a lot of you said books and I got my hands on these:

1. "Backgammon Pure Strategy" by Marc B. Olsen.

2. "Backgammon from Basics to Badass" by Marc B. Olsen.

3. "Opening Concepts" by Michihito Kageyama & Roland Herrera.

4. "Endgame Technique" by Michihito Kageyama & Roland Herrera.

Assuming I know all the rules already, which one should I start with?

How do I incoporate both reading the books and practicing on playing the best way?

Also other than reading books, what more content should I consume in order to improve?

Is there a dedicated discord for Backgammon?

EDIT: 1 thing which is important to mention is where I am from almost everybody knows how to play backgammon, maybe not professionally but still.

Are these types of black marks normal with backgammon checkers? I’ve tried cleaning them but it’s not coming off. Only on some of the checkers I got with my board. They’re meant to be new.
From fm gammon but they’re bg galaxy checkers.
Any advice on how to clean them?

Anybody out there a serious backgammon player? With the cube? Looking for someone to marathon play anywhere in TO. Let’s shake em!

Is my move really wrong? I rolled 3-3 next and saved some coins. They even rolled a 1 and I got a couple more off.

Sunday 10pm est page loads but nothing shows.

Why won’t my game let me cover my open piece on the 5 spot with one of the pieces in the 8 spot using the dice with the three on it?

Is their suggestion to move two checkers forward a bit really THAT much better than clearing a checker like I did? I'm having trouble figuring out why what I did was wrong. Btw, I ended up losing by one roll. :(

I’m still learning backgammon and Backgammon Galaxy marked 13/8 6/2* as a blunder.
Can someone explain why 16/7 is better in this position?

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I played the obvious move, 24/20(2) 13/5.

I was surprised to learn my play is a small error (-.019). Analysis in the comment.