5 Exercises To Improve Your Backgammon Game

by Phil Simborg
2 February 2010

Phil Simborg

I have done ALL of these exercises many times, and I continue to do them all from time to time to sharpen my game. My bot of choice is ExtremeGammon, but you can certainly do all of these exercises on Snowie or GNU…EG is just faster and gives you a quicker, more accurate analysis (and it's easier to use, and YES, I did help with the development of EG and I am prejudiced, but people like Neil and Mochy also make EG their bot of choice.)

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Subject: Re: 5 Exercises To Improve Your Backgammon Game

From: ScottyK

Date: 03 Feb 2010 10:15 EST

Phil,

Dont you mean above the error parameter is 0.020 for Open, 0.030 Advanced and 0.040 for Advanced?

Subject: Re: 5 Exercises To Improve Your Backgammon Game

From: PhilSimborg Member has a photo available

Date: 03 Feb 2010 10:22 EST

good catch. You got the idea....beginners should not worry as much about the smaller errors, and those are the ones under 2.0.

Subject: Re: 5 Exercises To Improve Your Backgammon Game

From: Timothy075931

Date: 05 Feb 2010 19:52 EST

Good suggestions, Phil.

I'd just like to point out that the % wins and % gammons reported by the bots are CUBELESS wins and gammons, which are not the same as ACTUAL wins and gammons when the cube is in play. As far as I know the only way at present to get ACTUAL wins and gammons is to do a live-cube rollout with GNU Backgammon and use the "View Statistics" feature.

In many positions the difference between cubeless numbers and actual numbers is small, but in other positions the difference can be significant.

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