Vikings: If that proved to be too much information, the point in question could just be shown as guarded without giving the number of pieces on it.

I would still like to try the game first with it showing all the pieces on a point if the dice would let you move there even if the point is guarded. There would still be plenty of darkness in such a game. Too much darkness and it'd just turn into a running lucky game. I don't know if it'd work or not. Too much information and it'd be very much like regular Backgammon, that I agree with.

Let's pretend it's the start of the game and I roll 5-3.Even before this roll I know the four points where all of your pieces are and how many are on them even though I cannot see any of your pieces. This is analogous to the start of a Dark Chess game. I can see my four points and the rest of the table would be dark. Now the roll of 5-3 would show me your two runners on my 1 point, the 3 point, the 5 point, the 16 point(Your outer table 9 point), your 5 pieces on your 6 point, and your 4 point.

Whatever move I decide to make will be unknown to you until you roll the dice. Now this is where how the game would be played will make a difference. Will the game show my dice roll or not? If it doesn't show the roll, then you'll always be in the dark except for those cases of when your next roll happens to reveal where I might have moved from an earlier position. If it does show the roll, then you'll have information about where I might have moved, but you won't necessarily know where I moved.

As the game progresses, they'll be an increase in information as the pieces become spread out and some rolls would reveal a lot of the table. And then, just like Dark Chess, it would get real dark as the last of the pieces passed each other and it became a running game. I can imagine other scenarios, such as me having five or six points guarded in a row. No matter what roll I received it would show up a lot of points in front of this and be very dark behind it. When both people have all the pieces in their home bases it would be a very dark board. Here again, the information shown would make a difference. Are born off pieces shown? I think they should be, but it could work without showing them too. This is sometihing I don't like about how Dark Chess is on this site as compared to IYT version, the promoting of Pawns and showing them and the piece promoted to. BrainKing reveals nothing about this happening. IYT, will either take the piece out of the opponent's captured pieces bag, or in the case of an extra Queen or third Rook, Knight, or Bishop, will show that an extra piece is on the board though it doesn't reveal its position. Both ways are playable, but it makes a difference in the play at times.