If you want to improve your backgammon game and make changes needed to thrive and prosper as a player, one of the things you might want to do would be to go over matches between two top players. To that I say "Yes, Oui Cannes".
As much as I love competing at backgammon tournaments, I have really gotten bored with them after several years of competing. They could all be a lot more fun and interesting with a few changes. Here's a list of what I would like to see.
Backgammon is the oldest game on the planet. The unique combination of mathematical calculations, strategy and luck helped the game to survive in spite of many other popular games such as chess, bridge, bingo and poker.
Canadian backgammon expert Jay Bidal continues his column delving into the checker and cube intricacies of match play. This 4-game backgammon match analysis, the 12th in his series, begins with game 1.
Snowie 4 Pro analyzes the Final 21-point backgammon match played between Fabrizio Lo Surdo and Matvey "Falafel" Natanzon at the 2008 French Backgammon Open.
Achim Mueller reports from the 6th Annual French Backgammon Open held in Enghien les Bains, France. Fabrizio Lo Surdo of Italy is the new French Open Backgammon Champion.
Jake Jacobs finds one of the world's best sushi restaurants, and delivers this report on the 2008 Japan Backgammon Open, held from October 11-13, 2008 in Tokyo, Japan.
Canadian backgammon expert Jay Bidal continues his column delving into the checker and cube intricacies of match play. This 8-game backgammon match analysis, the 11th in his series and the first user-submitted match, concludes with detailed statistics.
Canadian backgammon expert Jay Bidal continues his column delving into the checker and cube intricacies of match play. This 8-game backgammon match analysis, the 11th in his series and the first user-submitted match, concludes with game 8.
Using any reasonable match equity table is better than not using anything, but now there are multiple tables in use. Woolsey has a commonly used MET, but Snowie uses its own MET, and GNU uses a different table by default. What happens when the tables conflict?
Canadian backgammon expert Jay Bidal continues his column delving into the checker and cube intricacies of match play. This 8-game backgammon match analysis, the 11th in his series and the first user-submitted match, continues with game 7.
Jake and Phil probably thought I was too smart to fall into the insidious trap they prepared for me. They were wrong! They tossed me something that programs don't deal with very well, thus making the discovery of evidence to strengthen observations elusive.
Mary Hickey reports from the 2008 Mid-Atlantic Backgammon Championships, held at the Towson Marriott Hotel in Towson, Maryland, from October 17 to October 19, 2008.
In 2005, I had never heard of Richard Munitz. By 2006, he was just about all I heard about. Richard burst upon the backgammon scene with an impressive three wins to take the top spot on the American Backgammon Tour, nearly ten points clear of 2nd place finisher Gregg Cattanach.
Canadian backgammon expert Jay Bidal continues his column delving into the checker and cube intricacies of match play. This 8-game backgammon match analysis, the 11th in his series and the first user-submitted match, continues with game 6.
Opening 6-1 is an example of a change to the starting position that produces a tilt toward slotting the five point with aces on the third roll. We consider some backgammon checker play problems that present the slot-or-split problem in this context.
We often have to make decisions about doubling and taking when all 30 checkers are on the backgammon board and there are many factors to consider. Decisions can be complicated even when there are only a few checkers on the board!
Canadian backgammon expert Jay Bidal continues his column delving into the checker and cube intricacies of match play. This 8-game backgammon match analysis, the 11th in his series and the first user-submitted match, continues with game 5.
Jake Jacobs posts a list of problems recorded by Masanori Itikawa, an online backgammon player known as Othello. If Othello was tricked by these positions perhaps there lurks within the essence of backgammon itself an Iago waiting to snare us.
The "Art of Reconciliation" Exhibition at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library in Washington DC features sixty backgammon boards incorporated into individual works of art. The exhibition runs until May 18, 2008.
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