jryden: Thanks... I didnt resign it though, unless I did it on accident?

I know it can and will happen in backgammon. It has just been my luck lately, and I like to whine!

But one thing.... I think it is different in a cubed match.... when you are up 4 to 2 , why would you risk getting sacked for 2 points when you dont have to risk it? Any way you look at it, it takes a lot of luck to get your home set up right, first, then have your opponent leave one open to hit, then on top of all that they have to hit the roll!!! I think it is too much luck to risk when you are up 4 to 2 in a 5 point match!

Not to mention that she could have run a long time ago and been guaranteed of only losing one point, and it ends up that she may lose it anyway, even after all of the luck she had! I think I am more inclined to take the one point loss. than risk being gammoned (which could have easily happened!) Unless maybe, your opponent is so good that you dont like yourself even in a 4 to 3 match to 5!

Czuch Czuckers: If you are up 4-2, there is no difference between losing 1 or 2 points: The next frame is for the match anyway, since you would double immediately next frame.

grenv: ahhh, no more crawford rule then? That makes more sense to me now then. What about the possibility of a double gammon?

So it seems that the double cube is good to get you a win in a race, but bad if you are a better player overall? Since if you get ahead in a match, your opponent doesnt have to win as amny games to beat you!

Czuch Czuckers: Remember this one?

Backgammon (pgt vs. Czuch Czuckers)

pgt: Obviously you did!! hahah That makes a great point, we only remember our bad beats, and not the other way around!
Thanks for the reminder!

Czuch Czuckers: Nonsense. Use of the doubling cube is a skill in itself. It has the opposite affect you describe.

And another thing... you were 4-2 up in that match at the time, so complaining about lack of luck seems a little silly. Go and look at how you got the 4 points in the first place.

grenv: I was actually down 4 to 2! wasnt i?

Czuch Czuckers: No! I remembered it because I WON it!

grenv: yeah, you had me scared for a moment there!! But I was definitely down 4 to 2!!! So it must be her lucky game playing you were referring to?

pgt: ***** You just prove my point about unlucky dice even more!!! :) hahah

See.... how can anyone risk be beaten like Vikings here Backgammon (Vikings vs. Czuch Czuckers)
When they are up 4 to 2 in a 5 point match?????

Czuch Czuckers: simple, I'm gonna come back and whoop your tanned side just like last time we played

Czuch Czuckers: The risk of backgammon is quite small and usually negligible when making calculations (unless you're a computer).

Hi all, im back... sorry if anyone missed me, and sorry to anyone I offended by using the letters U and F in an inappropriate manner, it was meant in a good natured way, but apparently some global didnt take it that way, and anyway, if anyone else besides them was offended I apologize!

Does anybody know who has made the most moves during a game of Cloning? It would be very interesting to see.

BACKGAMMON 2100+ 7 POINTS MATCH--10 PLAYERS
Backgammon tourney for those who don't like the cube :)

Binabik: BACKGAMMON 2100+ 7 POINTS MATCH--10 PLAYERS
3 more players please?

You cannot sign up for this tournament because you have no BKR for null.


What does the above mean

alanback: It was Binabik's tournament below. so i still dont understand it lol

Oceans Apart: Huh? That's strange, I just went to that tourney and now there's no one signed up and it does display the "null" message.... Has to be a glitch, though I did specify 2100 - plus....

Binabik: lol even though i am just outside the 2100 all it should have said ws something like " You are not allowed to sign up for this tournament because your BKR is blah blah blah" if ya get what i mean lol

Oceans Apart: I just got this message:

mukali

Tournament: null

These players have been removed from your tournament because they didn't have enough empty slots for new tournament games.


Now the whole tourney seems to have disappeared?

Binabik: How do I report this to Fencer, in a pm?

Binabik: I tell ya what send me an invite and we can play amongst ourselves, like we normally do  lmao

Binabik: Try bug tracker, that way you can see if it is already a fault reported.

skipinnz: Thanks, I just did...
and did you notice that now the tourney apparently has been renamed "null"?

One for the Gammon players:

MadMonkeys 'Gammon' Stakes (8)

Still waiting for the race checkers display...
In Backgammon de Clonage (nabla contre Mirda), how many checkers does my opponent have on the bar ?

nabla: 4

nabla: Or 1 if you mean checkers that he has to move out before moving anything else.

nabla: 4 checkers, of which 2 are race checkers and 2 "get-off-the-bar-first" checkers. It's easy to see, the race checkers are black with a tiny light edge, and the other checkers have tiny light edges and are black otherwise.

Looking once more at the move list I see that I was wrong. But I can't see anything by just looking at the images.

AbigailII, fakarten: Thank you for the help. By counting I found 2, but I am all but sure, and I can't see any difference in the images either.

nabla: black with a tiny light edge = tiny light edges and are black otherwise :)

"black with a tiny light edge", "tiny light edges and are black otherwise"

I'm really slow today.. He was just kidding. :)

Hrqls: Hehe well done Abigail :-)

nabla:never thought to look at the edges I always looked for the black hole in the middle to identify the race checkers. LOL

where can I find any strategy help with grasshopper, please?

ruby2shoes: There is a short explanation on the galore pages: http://www.bkgm.com/variants/Grasshopper.html

a set number of passes one has to make in grasshopper before its declared a draw
Grasshopper (Gammonator vs. "Snoopy")
or do the 2 ppl have to declare the draw themselves

gogul: thanks to Gogul for sending me the link. It repeated the rules but did have a little help too....

"Snoopy": right now you have to agree to a draw

I have two games in the waiting games for backgammon (+2200) to test the new autopass. So if my opponent doesn´t choose this feature the games would be without it and I´d delete these games. Please, I have those games to test the autopass.

Join the Top Fellowship.

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Is this a glitch? I cant move one of my white ones on 3 to 7.. do i just not under stand the rules?

Rose: You have to use both dice if possible, and if you do what you want to do - that will leave you with no move for the 1 die.

So you need to move the 7 to 11, then use the 1 to move 11 to 12.

Rose: You must use both dice whenever possible, so 7/11/12 is the only move.