coan.net: For a computer - they can look ahead 20 moves - they can easily see what the more common rolls will result (More people will roll a total of 7 then roll a total of 3.)

Backgammon computers typically look only a few moves ahead, 2 or 3 for Snowie and GnuBg, 3 or 4 with eXtreme Gammon.

However, that's something of a misleading value because even looking no moves ahead, a backgammon program will still be extremely strong. That's because the static evaluation of a position already includes the statistics of looking ahead to the end of millions of games.