Celebrating 10 years in backgammon games

The Doubling Cube Process

by Phil Simborg
8 September 2009


Phil Simborg

There has long been a debate about what is more important - good checker play or good cube skills. To me, it doesn't matter: they are both critical. I have found, however, that most beginners and intermediate players (who I have been teaching for over 20 years) find the use of the doubling cube more difficult than checker play. If you check their errors on a bot (Extreme, GNU or Snowie) you will often see that the most costly errors are cube errors.
 

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