Book Suggestions
- After Magriel (Robert-Jan Veldhuizen+, Aug 2000)
- Annotated matches (Walter Trice, Jan 2000)
- Best books from the bot era (Chuck Bower+, Nov 2007)
- Best next step (Gregg Cattanach+, July 2002)
- Bibliography (Carl Tait, Apr 2000)
- Books for advanced players (Edward D. Collins, June 2003)
- Books for serious players (Douglas Zare, Feb 2003)
- Books on match play (Keene Marin+, Sept 2005)
- Buyer's guide (Chuck Bower, Feb 1998)
- How to read backgammon books (Gary Wong, Jan 1998)
- Ideal book on backgammon (Laury Chizlett, Apr 2000)
- Informal book survey (Chuck Bower+, Dec 2005)
- John Bazigos's suggestions (Mika Johnsson, July 1993)
- Magriel, Robertie, and Kleinman (Gregg Cattanach, May 2000)
- Marty Storer's reading list (Larry Hunter, May 1992)
- Recommended Backgammon Books (Butch Meese, Jan 1984)
- Survey of some available books (William Hill, Jan 1998)
- Three underrated books (Mary Hickey, July 2003)
- What's a good second book? (Tommy+, Dec 2000)
- Which book by Chris Bray should I buy? (Timothy Chow+, July 2012)
Books
- Bagai: Classic Backgammon Revisited (Gregg Cattanach, Feb 2002)
- Bagai: Classic Backgammon Revisited #100 (Raccoon, Nov 2004)
- Bagai: Classic Backgammon Revisited--Errata (Jeremy Bagai+, Apr 2005)
- Ball: Alpha Backgammon (James Takahashi+, May 1994)
- Ballard & Weaver: Backgammon Openings Book A (Marty Storer, Jan 2008)
- Ballard & Weaver: Backgammon Openings Book A (Mislav Radica, Nov 2007)
- Ballard & Weaver: Backgammon Openings Book A (Rob Adams+, Oct 2007)
- Ballard & Weaver: Backgammon Openings Book A (Gregg Cattanach, Oct 2007)
- Ballard & Weaver: Backgammon Openings Book A (Neil Kazaross+, Jan 2005)
- Ballard & Weaver: Backgammon Openings--Volunteers needed (Nack Ballard, June 2007)
- Barr: Barr on Backgammon (Walter Swan+, Feb 1996)
- Becker: Backgammon for Blood (Gus, Mar 2003)
- Becker: Backgammon for Blood (PTaber+, June 1999)
- Becker: Backgammon for Blood (Michael Fuhrmann, Aug 1997)
- Becker: Backgammon for Blood (Daniel Murphy, July 1997)
- Becker: Backgammon for Blood (Durf Freund+, May 1994)
- Bell: Winning with the Doubling Cube (&Atilda;˜ystein Johansen+, Apr 2006)
- Bell: Winning with the Doubling Cube (André Nicoulin, Oct 2000)
- Bell: Winning with the Doubling Cube (David Montgomery, May 1999)
- Bell: Winning with the Doubling Cube (Peter Bell, Aug 1998)
- Bell: Winning with the Doubling Cube (Jacques Torrione, Feb 1998)
- Bell: Winning with the Doubling Cube (Robert Scibelli, Dec 1997)
- Bell: Winning with the Doubling Cube (Kevin Bastian, Nov 1997)
- Bray: Backgammon for Blood (Chris Bray, Sept 2007)
- Bray: Backgammon to Win (Chris Bray, June 2007)
- Bray: Backgammon to Win, second edition (Chris Bray, Aug 2012)
- Bray: Backgammon--An Independent View (Chris Bray, May 1998)
- Bray: Backgammon--An Independent View Revisited (Chris Bray+, Jan 2005)
- Bray: Second Wind (Chris Bray, May 2007)
- Bray: What Colour is the Wind? (Chris Bray+, June 2002)
- Bray: What Colour is the Wind?--Rerelease (Chris Bray, Sept 2006)
- Brooks: Backgammon's Best Openings and Replies (Chuck Bower+, Dec 2004)
- Clay: Backgammon Winning Strategies (Michael Strato, Nov 1999)
- Clay: Backgammon Winning Strategies (Gary Wong, Jan 1998)
- Cooke & Bradshaw: Backgammon--The Cruelest Game (Chuck Bower+, Aug 1998)
- Cooke & Orléan: Championship Backgammon (Timothy Chow+, Apr 2011)
- Cooke & Orléan: Championship Backgammon (Marty Storer, Sept 2004)
- Cooke: Paradoxes and Probabilities (Neil Kazaross+, Sept 2004)
- Cooke: Paradoxes and Probabilities (Peter van Arkel+, Sept 2002)
- Cooke: Paradoxes and Probabilities (Donald Kahn, Dec 1998)
- Cooke: Paradoxes and Probabilities (Stephen Turner, Apr 1996)
- Corbett: Backgammon Problems (Stick+, Jan 2008)
- Deyong: The Playboy Book of Backgammon (Shuman Lloyd Lee, Aug 1991)
- Dwek: Backgammon for Profit (Bob Stringer, Sept 2002)
- Euler: Everyday Errors in Checker Play (BaronGossettEulerPhD+, June 2012)
- Garal: Fair Backgammon Tournament Rules (Jakob Garal, June 2007)
- Heinrich & Woolsey: New Ideas in Backgammon (Douglas Zare, Mar 2003)
- Heinrich & Woolsey: New Ideas in Backgammon (Craig E. Groeschel+, Sept 1998)
- Heinrich & Woolsey: New Ideas in Backgammon (David Montgomery, May 1997)
- Heyken & Fischer: The Backgammon Handbook (Martin Fischer, Sept 1998)
- Heyken & Fischer: The Backgammon Handbook (Marina Smith, Feb 1998)
- Hickey & Storer: What's Your Game Plan? (Timothy Chow, May 2011)
- Jacoby & Crawford: The Backgammon Book (Patrick Wilken, Aug 1991)
- Kansil: The Backgammon Quiz Book (Daniel Murphy, July 1997)
- Kansil: The Backgammon Quiz Book--Five problems (Chuck Bower, Oct 1997)
- Kennedy & Papazian: Backgammon Master Games (Ben Fairbank+, Apr 1999)
- Kershaw: Backgammon Funfair (Tom Keith+, July 2012)
- Kershaw: Backgammon Funfair (Peter Bennet, May 2012)
- Lamford: 100 Backgammon Puzzles (Harold Simon+, Oct 2001)
- Lamford: 100 Backgammon Puzzles (Mark Driver, July 2001)
- Lamford: 100 Backgammon Puzzles--Snowie analysis (Michael Schell, Oct 2001)
- Lamford: Improve Your Backgammon (Alef Rosenbaum, May 2003)
- Leet: Winning Backgammon (Ryan Long, Apr 2002)
- Leet: Winning Backgammon (MW Book Review, July 1999)
- Lortz: Double ... now: An Authentic Cube Remedy (Chuck Bower+, Jan 2004)
- Mabardi & Luce: Vanity Fair's Backgammon to Win (Paul Tanenbaum, Feb 1998)
- Magriel: Backgammon (Baldo+, Mar 2004)
- Magriel: Backgammon (Neil Kazaross, July 2003)
- Magriel: Backgammon (Chuck Bower, Nov 1999)
- Magriel: Backgammon (Dean Gay, Sept 1999)
- Magriel: Backgammon (David Montgomery+, Aug 1997)
- Magriel: Backgammon--2004 Edition (Tom Keith+, Dec 2004)
- Magriel: Backgammon--GnuBG evaluations (Randy, July 2008)
- Martyn: Phillip Martyn on Backgammon (Steve Brorens+, Nov 1996)
- Munchkin: Gambling Wizards (Chuck Bower, Aug 2003)
- Obolensky & James: Backgammon the Action Game (Edward D. Collins+, Oct 1999)
- Reese & Brinig: Backgammon: The Modern Game (Al Mirpuri+, Sept 2011)
- Robertie: 501 Essential Backgammon Problems (Paul Epstein, July 2005)
- Robertie: 501 Essential Backgammon Problems (Albert Silver, Nov 2002)
- Robertie: 501 Essential Backgammon Problems (Tore Fredriksen, July 2002)
- Robertie: 501 Essential Backgammon Problems (Erik M Sørensen, May 2000)
- Robertie: 501 Essential Backgammon Problems (Daniel Hollis, May 2000)
- Robertie: 501 Essential Backgammon Problems #75 (Hardy Hübener+, Nov 2005)
- Robertie: Advanced Backgammon (Doni+, Jan 2005)
- Robertie: Advanced Backgammon (Scott Steiner+, Sept 2002)
- Robertie: Advanced Backgammon (James Eibisch, Jan 1998)
- Robertie: Advanced Backgammon (Allen R. Adams, Nov 1995)
- Robertie: Advanced Backgammon #165 (Peter Grotrian+, Mar 2005)
- Robertie: Advanced Backgammon--Errata (Matt Senecal+, Nov 2004)
- Robertie: Advanced Backgammon--JF rollouts (Øystein Johansen, June 2001)
- Robertie: Advanced Backgammon--JF rollouts (Alexander Nitschke, Feb 1997)
- Robertie: Advanced Backgammon--JF rollouts (Peter Fankhauser, Jan 1996)
- Robertie: Backgammon for Winners (Carl Tait, Aug 1998)
- Robertie: Backgammon for Winners (Gerry Tesauro, Oct 1993)
- Robertie: Modern Backgammon (Mattias+, Apr 2003)
- Robertie: Modern Backgammon (Gregg Cattanach, Oct 2002)
- Robertie: Modern Backgammon (Frank Mazza+, May 2002)
- Robertie: Reno 1986 (AH+, Aug 2007)
- Shiina: Cube Action 1000 (Mochy, Feb 2013)
- Steed: Backgammon: The Meanest Game (Albert Steg, Aug 1998)
- Stern: Backgammon: The Quick Course to Winning Play (Mark Driver, May 2001)
- Storer: Backgammon Praxis (Chase+, Apr 2007)
- Storer: Backgammon Praxis (Marty Storer+, May 2004)
- Thorne's Backgammon Tactics (Reprint) (Sam Sloan, July 2012)
- Tremaine: Amazing Book of Backgammon (Jim Wallace, Feb 1998)
- Trice: Backgammon Boot Camp--2nd edition (Jeremy Bagai+, June 2007)
- Tzannes brothers: Backgammon Games and Strategies (Mark Driver, Apr 2001)
- Tzannes brothers: Backgammon Games and Strategies (Albert Steg, May 1994)
- Tzannes brothers: How Good Are You at Backgammon? (Mark Driver, July 2001)
- Wiggins: Boards, Blots, and Double Shots (Ned Cross+, Mar 2004)
- Williams: Backgammon Live in London (Sean Williams+, June 2008)
- Woolsey & Beadles: 52 Great Backgammon Tips (Paul Epstein+, Dec 2007)
- Woolsey & Beadles: 52 Great Backgammon Tips (Mislav Radica+, Oct 2007)
- Woolsey & Jones: Understanding Backgammon (Jon Nall+, Feb 2004)
- Woolsey: How to Play Tournament Backgammon (John Bazigos, Oct 1994)
- Woolsey: The Backgammon Encyclopedia Vol 1 (Dean Gay+, Feb 2004)
Cheating
- Advantages of online play (Donald Kahn, Nov 1999)
- Avoiding loaded dice (Gregg Cattanach, June 2000)
- Collusion in Monte Carlo (Kit Woolsey, Aug 1995)
- Dealing with live-play cheating (Gregg Cattanach+, May 2006)
- Dice magicians (Paul Weaver, July 2010)
- Dice manipulation (Paul Epstein, Nov 2005)
- Dice manipulation (Kit Woolsey, Jan 1995)
- Gamesmanship vs. cheating (Albert Steg+, May 1994)
- How to tell when somebody's cheating (Michael Halpenny+, Feb 2001)
- How to tell you're playing a computer (Douglas Zare, Dec 2003)
- Premature roll and late pick-up (Ian Shaw, Feb 2002)
- Taking advantage of computer players (Matthew J. Reklaitis, July 1997)
- Using computer to aid online play (Paul Weaver, July 2006)
- Using computer to aid online play (Ken Arnold+, Mar 2006)
- Using computer to aid online play (Patti Beadles+, Jan 2003)
- With a baffle box (Joe Russell, Aug 2009)
Chouettes
- Automatic doubles with carryover (Alexander Zamanian, Jan 1999)
- California rule (Peter Anderson+, Nov 2001)
- Captain drops and others take (Grafix8888+, Sept 2000)
- Chouette cube strategy (Stanley E. Richards+, Mar 2011)
- Cube proxy (Ilia Guzei+, June 2003)
- Dream chouette (Phil Simborg+, Sept 2009)
- Extras (Daniel Murphy, Feb 1997)
- Extras (Albert Steg, July 1996)
- Extras (Anthony R Wuersch, Mar 1995)
- Fish-hunt rules (Chuck Bower+, Feb 2006)
- Interlocking chouette (wintom+, Jan 2008)
- Jacoby rule (Doug Doub+, Aug 2005)
- Legal plays only (Gregg Cattanach+, Aug 2001)
- Los Angeles Rules (Joe Russell, Apr 2013)
- Los Angeles Rules (Justin N.+, Aug 2011)
- Lure of the chouette (Bob Koca+, July 2004)
- Mandatory beaver (Roland Scheicher+, Mar 2002)
- Mandatory beaver (David Montgomery, Jan 1999)
- Money management (Albert Steg, Sept 1998)
- Online chouette rules (John Graas, July 2003)
- Order of succession (leobueno+, Aug 2011)
- Order of succession (Albert Steg, June 1995)
- Procedure when captain doubles (Bill Riles+, Feb 2010)
- Split cube actions (Neil Kazaross, June 2003)
- Strategy (Michael J. Zehr, Sept 1998)
- Variable stakes (Christopher Yep+, Apr 2000)
- Waiting for teammate to double (Øystein Johansen+, July 2001)
- When box takes a partner (Dan Pelton+, Mar 2009)
- When does player retain the box? (Daniel Murphy, Jan 1997)
- When is consulting allowed? (Dave+, Mar 2000)
Computer Dice
- Dice on backgammon servers (Hank Youngerman, July 2001)
- Does Agushak Backgammon cheat? (Mr Nabutovsky, June 2000)
- Does BG by George cheat? (George Sutty, Nov 1995)
- Does Backgammon NJ cheat? (Greg+, June 2010)
- Does Cybergammon cheat? (Goto Informatique, Aug 1996)
- Does David's Backgammon cheat? (Joseph B. Calderone, June 1998)
- Does GNU Backgammon cheat? (Robert-Jan Veldhuizen, Nov 2002)
- Does Gammontool cheat? (Jim Hurley, Sept 1991)
- Does Hyper-Gammon cheat? (ZZyzx, June 1996)
- Does Jellyfish cheat? (Fredrik Dahl, June 1997)
- Does MVP Backgammon cheat? (Mark Betz, Oct 1996)
- Does MonteCarlo cheat? (Matt Reklaitis, June 1998)
- Does Motif cheat? (Rick Kiesau+, Mar 2004)
- Does Motif cheat? (Billie Patterson, Feb 2003)
- Does Motif cheat? (Robert D. Johnson, Oct 1996)
- Does Snowie cheat? (André Nicoulin, Sept 1998)
- Does TD-Gammon cheat? (Gerry Tesauro, Feb 1997)
- Error rates with computer dice (NoChinDeluxe+, Feb 2011)
- FIBS: Analysis of 10 million rolls (Stephen Turner, Apr 1997)
- FIBS: Are the dice biased? (Kit Woolsey, Oct 1996)
- FIBS: Entering from the bar (Tom Keith+, Apr 1997)
- GamesGrid: Too many jokers? (Gregg Cattanach, Sept 2001)
- GridGammon: Are the dice random? (leobueno+, Sept 2011)
- Jellyfish: How to check the dice (John Goodwin, May 1998)
- Jellyfish: Proof it doesn't cheat (Gary Wong, July 1998)
- MSN Zone: Security flaw (happyjuggler0, June 2004)
- Official complaint form (Gary Wong, June 1998)
- Randomness testing (Brett Meyer+, Dec 2010)
- Safe Harbor Games dice (Michael Petch+, Aug 2011)
- Synopsis of "cheating" postings (Ray Karmo, Feb 2002)
- Testing for bias (Kit Woolsey, Jan 1995)
- The dice sure seem unfair! (Michael Sullivan, Apr 2004)
- Too many repeated rolls? (Stephen Turner, Mar 1994)
- Winning and losing streaks (Daniel Murphy, Mar 1998)
Cube Handling
- Against a weaker opponent (Kit Woolsey, July 1994)
- Closed board cube decisions (Dan Pelton+, Jan 2009)
- Cube concepts (Peter Bell, Aug 1995)
- Early game blitzes (kruidenbuiltje, Jan 2011)
- Early-late ratio (Tom Keith, Sept 2003)
- Endgame close out: Michael's 432 rule (Michael Bo Hansen+, Feb 1998)
- Endgame close out: Spleischft formula (Simon Larsen, Sept 1999)
- Endgame closeout: win percentages (David Rubin+, Oct 2010)
- Evaluating the position (Daniel Murphy, Feb 2001)
- Evaluating the position (Daniel Murphy, Mar 2000)
- How does rake affect cube actions? (Paul Epstein+, Sept 2005)
- How to use the doubling cube (Michael J. Zehr, Nov 1993)
- Liveliness of the cube (Kit Woolsey, Apr 1997)
- PRAT--Position, Race, and Threats (Alan Webb, Feb 2001)
- Playing your opponent (Morris Pearl+, Jan 2002)
- References (Chuck Bower, Nov 1997)
- Robertie's rule (Chuck Bower, Sept 2006)
- Rough guidelines (Michael J. Zehr, Dec 1993)
- Tells (Tad Bright+, Nov 2003)
- The take/pass decision (Otis+, Aug 2007)
- Too good to double (Michael J. Zehr, May 1997)
- Too good to double--Janowski's formula (Chuck Bower, Jan 1997)
- Value of an ace-point game (Raccoon+, June 2006)
- Value of an ace-point game (Øystein Johansen, Aug 2000)
- Volatility (Chuck Bower, Oct 1998)
- Volatility (Kit Woolsey, Sept 1996)
- When to accept a double (Daniel Murphy+, Feb 2001)
- When to beaver (Walter Trice, Aug 1999)
- When to double (Kit Woolsey, Nov 1994)
- With the Jacoby rule (KL Gerber+, Nov 2002)
- With the Jacoby rule (Gary Wong, Dec 1997)
- Woolsey's law (PersianLord+, Mar 2008)
- Woolsey's law (Kit Woolsey, Sept 1996)
- Words of wisdom (Chris C., Dec 2003)
Cube Handling in Races
- Bower's modified Thorp count (Chuck Bower, July 1997)
- Calculating winning chances (Raccoon, Jan 2007)
- Calculating winning chances (OpenWheel+, Nov 2005)
- Doubling formulas (Michael J. Zehr, Jan 1995)
- Doubling in a long race (Brian Sheppard, Feb 1998)
- EPC example (adambulldog+, Jan 2011)
- EPC example: stack and straggler (neilkaz+, Jan 2009)
- EPC examples: stack and straggler (Carlo Melzi+, Dec 2008)
- Effective pipcount (Douglas Zare, Sept 2003)
- Effective pipcount and type of position (Douglas Zare, Jan 2004)
- Kleinman count (Øystein Johansen+, Feb 2001)
- Kleinman count (André Nicoulin, Sept 1998)
- Kleinman count (Chuck Bower, Mar 1998)
- Lamford's race forumla (Michael Schell, Aug 2001)
- N-roll vs n-roll bearoff (David Rubin+, July 2008)
- N-roll vs n-roll bearoff (Gregg Cattanach, Nov 2002)
- N-roll vs n-roll bearoff (Chuck Bower+, Dec 1997)
- Near end of game (Daniel Murphy, Mar 1997)
- Near end of game (David Montgomery, Feb 1997)
- Near end of game (Ron Karr, Feb 1997)
- One checker model (Kit Woolsey+, Feb 1998)
- Pip count percentage (Jeff Mogath+, Feb 2001)
- Pip-count formulas (Tom Keith+, June 2004)
- Thorp count (Chuck Bower, Jan 1997)
- Thorp count (Simon Woodhead, Sept 1991)
- Thorp count questions (Chuck Bower, Sept 1999)
- Value of a pip (Tom Keith, June 2004)
- Ward's racing formula (Marty Storer, Jan 1992)
- What's your favorite formula? (Timothy Chow+, Aug 2012)
Equipment
- Bakelite checkers (Albert Steg, Nov 1998)
- Board design (Chuck Bower, Feb 2004)
- Board design (Adam Stocks, July 2002)
- Board design (Gregg Cattanach, Dec 2000)
- Board design (Michael Poche+, Dec 1998)
- Board design (Albert Steg, Jan 1998)
- Boards (Bert Van Kerckhove+, Aug 2002)
- Boards--Custom-made (N Merrigan, Mar 2003)
- Boards--Dal Negro (Erin+, Jan 2004)
- Boards--Features to look for (Matthew Mueller+, Dec 2000)
- Boards--Hardwood Creations (Ben Fairbank, May 1998)
- Boards--Tak Morioka (Gregg Cattanach, Feb 2002)
- Boards--Tak Morioka (Ed Zell, Jan 1999)
- Boards--Zavoral (Robert Zavoral, Oct 1999)
- Buying a tournament board (Chuck Bower, June 2011)
- Care of backgammon boards (Ken Bame+, Mar 2009)
- Checkers (Mike O.+, Feb 2003)
- Checkers (Chuck Bower, Nov 1997)
- Dice (Gregg Cattanach, July 2004)
- Dice cups (David Montgomery, Nov 1999)
- Dice cups (Leo Bueno, Feb 1998)
- How much to spend on a board? (Ian Shaw, Apr 2004)
- Leather boards (HGM+, Dec 1999)
- Luxury boards (Paul Vianna+, Feb 2010)
- Meyer Dice Tube issues (Stick+, July 2010)
- Meyer Dice Tube usage (Justin Nunez+, Feb 2011)
- Meyer Dice Tube--Why I hate it (Bob Glass+, Dec 2010)
- Moderately priced boards (William Womack+, Feb 2010)
- Precision dice (Patti Beadles+, Jan 2001)
- Precision dice (Larry Strommen, Feb 1998)
- Precision dice (Chuck Bower+, Feb 1998)
- Replacing cork on backgammon boards (JP White, Apr 2003)
- Suppliers--BG Shop (Michael Nelson, Jan 2002)
- Suppliers--Backgammon boards (CKT, July 2004)
- Suppliers--Backgammon boards (Ian Shaw+, June 2002)
- Suppliers--Where to buy dice (Andrew B.+, Jan 2008)
- Suppliers--Yenigun (yenigun, Sept 2005)
- What finish to use on a cork board? (JP White+, Apr 2003)
- What is "standard size"? (Daniel Murphy, Mar 2001)
- What is "tournament size"? (Rodrigo Andrade+, July 1999)
- Woodworking--Finishing a board (M Moore+, Jan 2008)
Etiquette
- Am I too slow? (sevenout+, Apr 2004)
- Am I too slow? (Stephen Turner, Jan 2002)
- Am I too slow? (Daniel Murphy, June 1997)
- Commenting on dice (Ron Barry+, Mar 2001)
- Dealing with droppers (Bill Hill, Dec 1998)
- Dealing with droppers (Patti Beadles, Mar 1996)
- Dice cup (Walt Swan, June 2000)
- Direction of play (Ric Gerace+, Aug 2001)
- Doubling opponent out (bustedchucks+, June 2005)
- Doubling to end a game early (Douglas Zare, Aug 2001)
- Etiquette for online play (Dean Ayer+, June 1997)
- Going for backgammon in a one-point match (Douglas Zare, Nov 2000)
- How long to wait? (Marsha Wisniski+, Dec 1997)
- Listening to music while playing (Max Urban+, Oct 2009)
- Moving hit checker first (Timothy Chow+, Oct 2009)
- Premature shaking (Paul Epstein+, July 2005)
- Rolling the dice (Julius Selbach+, July 2005)
- Rude conduct (Igor Schein+, Mar 2003)
- Under resigning (Bob Newell+, Aug 2004)
- Under resigning (Ilya Vinogradsky+, May 1994)
- When to quit (Albert Steg, Nov 1998)
- Why I never complain about the dice (Phil Simborg, Mar 2004)
Extreme Gammon
- Extra elements in a MAT file (eXtreme Gammon, Dec 2009)
- Rollout settings (pontiac+, Jan 2012)
Fun and frustration
- A game brings you money (Michael J. Zehr, Feb 1996)
- A story from my youth (neilkaz, Aug 2008)
- Backgammon at 50 (Mary Hickey, July 2005)
- Backgammon by mail (MelRae, Aug 1997)
- Backgammon haikus (Phil Simborg, July 2004)
- Backgammon hustler (Socks, Apr 2004)
- Backgammon laws (Walt Swan, Dec 1999)
- Beginner's luck (Paul Tanenbaum, May 1999)
- Characters we all know (Alan Webb, Feb 1999)
- Choking under pressure (Kevin Bastian, Dec 1997)
- Danish Championship semifinal match (Daniel Murphy+, Nov 2004)
- Don't come looking for sympathy ... (Ian Shaw, Nov 2004)
- "Good roll!" (jfk+, Jan 1998)
- Hard luck story contest (Einar Tryggvason, Apr 1996)
- "I resign" (neilkaz, June 2011)
- Lonely checker's lament (Luvrhino+, Aug 2001)
- Losing streaks (Stanley E. Richards+, June 2006)
- Losing streaks (Leo Bueno+, Nov 1999)
- Losing streaks (Jim Peplow, July 1998)
- New Year's resolutions (Alan Webb, Jan 2000)
- One-liners (scuba, Jan 2007)
- Simborg's laws of backgammon (NYCGuy, June 1997)
- Some learning humor (Daniel Murphy, Aug 2011)
- Ten commandments of backgammon (Morten Wang, Nov 1997)
- The square thing (David B. Sandler, June 1996)
- Translation fun (James Eibisch, Feb 1998)
- What are the chances? (Pete+, Mar 2003)
- Wishing good luck (Michel Tarragnat, Apr 2005)
GNU Backgammon
- Analyzing GamesGrid matches (Roy Passfield, Dec 2001)
- Batch analysis tool (Øystein Johansen, June 2004)
- Cache size (Ned Cross+, Mar 2004)
- Compiling for Windows (Øystein Johansen, Jan 2002)
- Edit mode removing checker from bar (Scott Steiner+, May 2003)
- Entering an annotated match (Albert Silver, Dec 2003)
- Error rates: Gnu vs. Snowie (Raccoon, Mar 2006)
- Even-ply/odd-ply effect (Raccoon, Nov 2004)
- Even-ply/odd-ply effect (Tom Keith+, Oct 2003)
- Even-ply/odd-ply effect (Scott Steiner+, Dec 2002)
- Filter settings (Robert-Jan Veldhuizen, Nov 2004)
- Gnu 0.13 versus Jellyfish and Snowie (Torsten Schoop, Aug 2003)
- Gnu 0.13 vs. Snowie 4 (Albert Silver, June 2003)
- Gnu 0.14 vs. Jellyfish (Michael Howard+, July 2003)
- Gnu versus Snowie and Jellyfish (Michael Depreli, Oct 2005)
- How luck factor is calculated (Gregg Cattanach, Aug 2002)
- How rollouts work (Gary Wong, July 1999)
- How to enter an illegal move (Øystein Johansen, Aug 2003)
- Importing .gam files (PAR+, Mar 2005)
- Importing PartyGammon matches (rew+, July 2006)
- Improving your game using GnuBG (D.U.G.+, Nov 2002)
- Installing on Windows (maareyes, Oct 2001)
- Interpreting JSD's (Adrian Wright+, Feb 2005)
- JSD's and confidence intervals (Daniel Murphy+, Jan 2005)
- Logging rollouts (Øystein Johansen, Oct 2004)
- Luck rate (Kees van den Doel+, May 2002)
- MWC versus Equity (EMG) (Ken+, Apr 2005)
- Manually entering first roll (Andreas Graf+, Apr 2005)
- Match equity tables (Raccoon, July 2005)
- Personal reflections (Louis Nardy Pillards, Sept 2002)
- Playing two computers against each other (Stanley E. Richards+, Mar 2008)
- Python scripting (Øystein Johansen+, Nov 2004)
- Quasi-random dice in rollouts (Ian Shaw, Mar 2004)
- Question marks in game list (Jim Segrave, July 2005)
- Questions and answers (Jim Segrave+, Jan 2003)
- Questions and answers (Jørn Thyssen, Aug 2002)
- Restarting a rollout with different settings (Jim Segrave, Apr 2005)
- Restarting a rollout with different settings (Robert-Jan Veldhuizen, Apr 2004)
- Rollout settings (geoff arnold+, Apr 2007)
- Rollout settings (Stick+, Nov 2005)
- Rollout settings (Robert-Jan Veldhuizen, Mar 2004)
- Rollout settings (Ian Dunstan, Aug 2003)
- Rollout settings for the impatient (Robert-Jan Veldhuizen, June 2004)
- Running rollouts in background (Bruce+, Apr 2004)
- Saving rollout results from command-line interface (Jeremy Bagai+, Apr 2006)
- Saving rollouts (Mislav Radica+, May 2006)
- Setting GnuBG's playing strength (JP White, Sept 2001)
- Setting skill level (Jim Segrave, Apr 2004)
- Setting up and saving a rollout (Albert Silver, Dec 2003)
- What's GNU? (Gary Wong, Oct 2001)
- Which player is player 0? (Neil Kazaross+, Oct 2004)
History
- Backgammon in China (Mark Driver, Jan 2001)
- Backgammon variants (Raccoon, Aug 2003)
- Books on the history of backgammon (Albert Steg, Aug 1998)
- Changes in backgammon over the years (Joe Russell, July 2009)
- Doubling in the 17th Century? (David Levy+, Dec 2003)
- Murray's "History of Boardgames Other than Chess" (Dean Jameson, Apr 2002)
- Origin of backgammon (Greycat Sharpclaw, Oct 1997)
- Recent changes (Joe Russell+, July 2009)
- The effect of bots on the game (Daniel Murphy+, May 2005)
- The name "backgammon" (Jive Dadson+, Dec 2002)
- The name "backgammon" (Marina Smith, Jan 1998)
- The name "backgammon" (Albert Steg, Mar 1995)
Jellyfish
- Backgame play (Brian Sheppard, Feb 1997)
- Bearoff database bug (Vince Mounts+, May 1998)
- Cube strategy (Fredrik Dahl, July 1995)
- Doubling at 2-away, 2-away (Michael Bo Hansen, May 1998)
- JF tackles New Ideas in Backgammon (Nigel Gibbions+, Mar 1998)
- Review of JF Player 3.0 (Geoff Oliver, Apr 1997)
- Review of JF Tutor 1.0 (John Bazigos, Feb 1995)
- Showdown in Texas (Chuck Bower, July 1997)
- Strengths and weaknesses (Daniel Murphy, Jan 1998)
- What is a Jellyfish? (John S Mamoun, Dec 1996)
- Why the name? (Fredrik Dahl, Dec 1996)
Learning
- Advancing beyond intermediate (James Eibisch, July 1998)
- Beginners' mistakes (Alan Webb+, Nov 1999)
- Best way for a beginner to learn (Koyunbaba+, July 2007)
- Committing to memory (RobertFontaine+, Feb 2011)
- Getting better than "awful" (Morph+, May 2004)
- How to excel in backgammon (Max Levenstein+, Aug 2011)
- How to improve (N Merrigan, Jan 2007)
- How to improve (Albert Steg, Feb 1996)
- How to improve cube handling (RealNick+, Jan 2011)
- How to learn and improve (Hristov, Aug 2005)
- Lowering your error rate (Stick Rice+, Apr 2009)
- Maintaining your game (Robert-Jan Veldhuizen, Apr 2005)
- Matchqiz and Jellyfish (Gilles Baudrillard, May 1997)
- Missing candidate plays (Klaus Evers+, Apr 2009)
- Most efficient way to learn (Stick+, May 2007)
- Practice and preparation (Ian Shaw+, Mar 2004)
- Practice/study plan (Marcus Brooks+, Nov 1995)
- Reference positions (Chuck Bower, July 1999)
- Study Methodology (Phil Simborg, Dec 2012)
- Study method (Jason Lee+, Jan 2012)
- Study plan (Tenland+, Nov 2012)
- Taking your game up a level (CW+, Aug 2002)
- Taking your game up a level (Ron Karr, Aug 1996)
- The backgammon cake (Daniel Murphy, Nov 1997)
- The best way to learn (Chuck Bower+, Oct 2003)
- Three steps to better play (David Montgomery, July 1998)
- Using Jellyfish tutor (Stephen Hubbard, Sept 1997)
- What more can I do? (Alison Wylie+, Apr 2000)
- Zen in the art of backgammon (Robban+, Aug 2009)
Luck versus Skill
- Are good players just luckier? (Douglas Zare, Sept 2000)
- Are luck and skill related? (Eskimo+, Feb 2003)
- Does backgammon need less luck? (Raccoon, Jan 2008)
- How much of backgammon is luck? (Wai Mun Yoon, Jan 1998)
- How much skill versus luck? (Alexandre Sierra, Nov 2000)
- How much skill versus luck? (JP White+, Aug 2000)
- How often to win with perfect play? (Robert-Jan Veldhuizen, Nov 2000)
- Is backgammon gambling? (Luc Palmans+, Oct 2010)
- Is backgammon gambling? (Kevin D. McLeaster, Sept 1997)
- Is there really luck in backgammon? (benf+, Jan 2012)
- Recognizing luck (Walter Trice, Dec 2004)
- Strange result (az-willie+, Mar 2003)
- The Bower Luck-O-Meter (Gary Wong, Aug 1998)
- Why are stronger players luckier? (Bob Sweeney+, Oct 2002)
Magazines & E-zines
- BlotBlog (Jens Göring, Apr 2006)
- GammonLife (Michael Strato, July 2006)
- List of articles (Mika Johnsson, Sept 1993)
- Available newsletters (Robert A. Meese, Jr., May 1993)
- Backgammon Today (Mario Kühl, Apr 2002)
- Essential Backgammon (Dan Frank, Mar 1998)
- GammOnLine (Raccoon+, Jan 2006)
- GammOnLine (sevenout+, May 2004)
- GammOnLine (JP White+, Apr 2000)
- GammOnLine (Adam V+, Nov 1999)
- GammOnLine announcement (Kit Woolsey+, June 1999)
- GammOnLine--Sold to Play65 (Daniel Murphy+, June 2007)
- GammonVillage announcement (Michael Strato, Dec 1999)
- GammonVillage vs. GammOnLine (Albert Silver, Sept 2003)
- Inside Backgammon (Chuck Bower, Oct 1997)
- Inside Backgammon R.I.P. (Chris Bray, June 1999)
Match Archives
- Big Brother (Mark Damish, Oct 1995)
- Big Brother Statistics (Peter Fankhauser, Jan 1996)
- Big Brother file viewer (Vince Mounts, June 1998)
- Database software (Achim Müller, July 1997)
- Dueller: Jellyfish vs. Snowie (Tony Lezard, Jan 2002)
- LittleSister (Francois Hochede, May 2002)
- Monte Carlo 2001 Final (Daniel Murphy, July 2001)
- Standard notation/archive format (Mark Damish, Oct 1994)
- Where to get matches to download (Stick, Apr 2006)
- Where to get matches to download (KaRaNLiK+, Oct 2005)
Match Equities
- Constructing a match equity table (Walter Trice, Apr 2000)
- Does it matter which match equity table you use? (Klaus Evers+, Nov 2005)
- Does it matter which match equity table you use? (Achim Mueller+, Dec 2003)
- Does it matter which match equity table you use? (Chuck Bower+, Sept 2001)
- ME Table: Big Brother (Peter Fankhauser, July 1996)
- ME Table: Dunstan (Ian Dunstan+, Aug 2004)
- ME Table: Escoffery (David Escoffery, Nov 1991)
- ME Table: Friedman (Elliott C Winslow, Oct 1991)
- ME Table: Kazaross (Neil Kazaross, Dec 2003)
- ME Table: Kazaross-XG2 (neilkaz, Aug 2011)
- ME Table: Rockwell-Kazaross (Chuck Bower+, June 2010)
- ME Table: Snowie (Chase, Apr 2002)
- ME Table: Snowie (Harald Retter, Aug 1998)
- ME Table: Woolsey (Raccoon, Apr 2006)
- ME Table: Woolsey (Kit Woolsey, May 1994)
- ME Table: Woolsey (William R. Tallmadge, Jan 1994)
- ME Table: Zadeh (Jørn Thyssen, Mar 2004)
- ME Table: Zorba (Robert-Jan Veldhuizen+, Dec 2003)
- ME at 1-away/2-away (crawford) (Fabrice Liardet+, Nov 2007)
- ME at 1-away/2-away (crawford) (Ian Shaw+, Apr 2003)
- Match equities--an alternate view (Durf Freund, Oct 1994)
- Neil's new numbers (neilkaz, Aug 2011)
- Neil's numbers (Kit Woolsey+, Oct 1994)
- On calculating match equity tables (Neil Kazaross, July 2004)
- Turner formula (Gregg Cattanach, Feb 2003)
- Turner formula (Stephen Turner, June 1994)
- Using a match equity table (Michael J. Zehr, June 1992)
- Value of free drop (Neil Kazaross, Oct 2002)
- Which match equity table is best? (Martin Krainer+, Oct 2003)
- Which match equity table is best? (Ian Shaw+, Dec 2001)
- Why use a match equity table? (Kit Woolsey, Feb 1999)
- Worth memorizing? (Alef Rosenbaum+, Feb 2003)
Match Play
- 1-away/1-away: advice from Bernhard Kaiser (Darse Billings, July 1995)
- 1-away/1-away: advice from Stick (Stick+, Mar 2007)
- 1-away/1-away: and similar scores (Lou Poppler, Aug 1995)
- 2-away/3-away: playing for gammon (Tom Keith, Feb 1996)
- 2-away/4-away: Neil's rule of 80 (Neil Kazaross, June 2004)
- 2-away/4-away: cube strategy (Tom Keith, Dec 1996)
- 2-away/4-away: practical issues (Mark Damish, Jan 1996)
- 2-away/4-away: trailer's initial double (Kit Woolsey, Jan 1996)
- 3-away/4-away: opponent's recube (William C. Bitting+, Feb 1997)
- 3-away/4-away: racing cube (Bill Calton+, Nov 2012)
- 3-away/4-away: tricky cube decision (Kit Woolsey+, July 1994)
- 3-away/4-away: what's the correct equity? (Tom Keith, Sept 1997)
- 4-away/4-away: take/drop point (Gary Wong, Oct 1997)
- 5-away/11-away: redouble to 8 (Gavin Anderson, Oct 1998)
- 7-away/11-away: volatile recube decision (Kit Woolsey, May 1997)
- Both too good and not good enough to double (Paul Epstein+, Sept 2007)
- Comparing 2-away/3-away and 2-away/4-away (Douglas Zare, Mar 2002)
- Crawford rule (Chuck Bower, May 1998)
- Crawford rule (Kit Woolsey, Mar 1997)
- Crawford rule--Why just one game? (Walter Trice, Jan 2000)
- Crawford rule--history (Michael Strato, Jan 2001)
- Delayed mandatory double (tem_sat+, Oct 2010)
- Delayed mandatory double (Donald Kahn+, Dec 1997)
- Doubling when facing a gammon loss (Kit Woolsey, Jan 1999)
- Doubling when opponent is 2-away (David Montgomery, Dec 1997)
- Doubling when you're an underdog (Stein Kulseth, Dec 1997)
- Doubling window with gammons (Jason Lee+, Jan 2009)
- Free drop (Ian Shaw, May 1999)
- Free drop (Willis Elias+, Oct 1994)
- Gammonless takepoint formula (Adam Stocks, June 2002)
- Going for gammon when opp has free drop (Kit Woolsey, Jan 1998)
- Going for gammon when opp has free drop (Kit Woolsey, Apr 1995)
- Holland rule (Neil Kazaross, Apr 2010)
- Holland rule (Kit Woolsey, Dec 1994)
- Leading 2-away with good gammon chances (Douglas Zare, Feb 2004)
- Match play 101 (Max Urban+, Oct 2009)
- Matches to a set number of games (Tom Keith+, Oct 1998)
- Playing when opponent has free drop (Gilles Baudrillard+, Dec 1996)
- Post-crawford doubling (Scott Steiner+, Feb 2004)
- Post-crawford doubling (Maik Stiebler+, Dec 2002)
- Post-crawford doubling (Gus+, Sept 2002)
- Post-crawford mistakes (Rob Adams, Sept 2007)
- Post-crawford/2-away: too good to double (Robert-Jan Veldhuizen, July 2004)
- Slotting when opponent has free drop (onur alan+, Apr 2013)
- Take points (fiore+, Feb 2005)
- Tips to improve cube handling (Lucky Jim+, Jan 2010)
- When to free drop (Dan Pelton+, Oct 2006)
- When to free drop (Tom Keith+, July 2005)
- When to free drop (Gregg Cattanach, Dec 2004)
- When to free drop (Kit Woolsey, Feb 1998)
- When to free drop (Chuck Bower, Jan 1998)
- Which format most favors the favorite? (Daniel Murphy+, Jan 2006)
Match Play at 2-away/2-away
- Basic strategy (Darse Billings, Feb 1995)
- Counterexample? (Jim Williams+, Mar 1998)
- Do you need an advantage to cube? (Keene Marin+, Feb 2006)
- Double immediately? (Chuck Bower, Oct 1998)
- Ever too good to double? (Kit Woolsey, July 1995)
- Minimum game winning chances to double (Walter Trice, Mar 1999)
- Practical strategy (Walter Trice, July 1995)
- Practical strategy (Albert Steg+, Feb 1995)
- Proof for doubling immediately (Robert Koca+, May 1994)
- Proof of doubling with market losers (Walter Trice+, July 2001)
- Sample game (Ron Karr, Dec 1996)
Miscellaneous
- Backgammon computers (Graham Bayne+, Mar 2005)
- Backgammon in famous paintings (Dan Scoones, Mar 2000)
- Backgammon versus poker (Peter Hallberg, June 2006)
- Backgammon's popularity (Anon+, Sept 2003)
- Board orientation (Daniel Murphy, Mar 1999)
- Calculation versus instinct (Kit Woolsey, Jan 1998)
- Checker play versus cube play (Gregg Cattanach, Oct 2004)
- Checker play versus cube play (David Montgomery, Jan 1998)
- Copying positions from books (Stick+, Nov 2005)
- Famous people who play (Carem Wiklicm+, Dec 2002)
- Free lesson (Donald Kahn, Apr 1999)
- General tips (Hank Youngerman, Aug 1998)
- Giants of Backgammon list (Raccoon+, Mar 2006)
- Handicapping (Kees van den Doel+, Aug 2003)
- Handicapping (flash, Aug 1998)
- Handicapping--Pass or pick a roll (Michael J. Zehr, Dec 1997)
- Handicapping--Rerolling 5-4 (Mary Hickey, Feb 2004)
- How bots rate you (Phil Simborg, Mar 2010)
- Initiatives by local clubs (Raccoon, Mar 2006)
- Is online gambling legal in the U.S.? (Chuck Bower+, June 2006)
- Maximizing earnings (Stanley E. Richards+, Oct 2005)
- Money management (Carly Robson+, Jan 2009)
- Money management (Gnoh Mon+, July 2004)
- Money management (Adam Stocks, Jan 2003)
- Money management and the Kelly Criterion (Stuart Thomson+, June 1999)
- Notation (Dean Gay, Feb 2000)
- Notation (Kit Woolsey, July 1995)
- Position cards (Francois Hochede, Jan 2004)
- Posted diagrams are scrunched up (Dale+, Sept 2000)
- Top women players (Tami+, Nov 2006)
- Typesetting backgammon (Jason Lee+, Apr 2006)
- What is Zbot? (Douglas Zare+, Dec 2003)
- What is backgammon? (David C. Oshel, Aug 1997)
- Why do people play for money? (Hank Youngerman+, Sept 2005)
- World Champions (John Bazigos, June 1994)
- rec.games.backgammon mini-FAQ (Daniel Murphy, Mar 1998)
Opening Rolls
- At different match scores (Louis Nardy Pillards, July 2002)
- Average advantage of winning opening roll (Chuck Bower, Oct 1998)
- Choosing a strategy (Daniel Murphy, June 2001)
- Early game rule of thumb (Rich Munitz, Feb 2009)
- Factors to consider (Kit Woolsey, July 1994)
- How computers play (Kit Woolsey, Mar 1995)
- Magriel's Chapter 5 (Hayden Alfano+, May 2006)
- Mloner vs Jellyfish (Kit Woolsey, Dec 1995)
- Nactating a whole game (Nack Ballard+, Jan 2011)
- Nactation (Jim Stutz+, June 2010)
- Nactation overview (Nack Ballard, Oct 2009)
- Nactation--Why use it? (leobueno+, Jan 2011)
- Opening 1's: Split or slot? (Douglas Zare, Dec 2003)
- Opening 21: Rollout (Stick, Mar 2006)
- Opening 21: Split or slot? (Dick Adams+, Dec 2003)
- Opening 32: Rollout (Stick, Feb 2006)
- Opening 43: In GOL online match (Raccoon+, Feb 2004)
- Opening 43: Pros and cons (Stick+, Jan 2006)
- Opening 43: Which split is better? (Peter Backgren+, Aug 2000)
- Opening 43: Which split is better? (Michael J. Zehr+, Mar 1996)
- Opening 51: Rollout (Stick, Feb 2006)
- Opening 52: Merits of splitting (Peter Bell, Apr 1995)
- Opening 53: Magriel's recommendation (George Parker+, July 1997)
- Opening 53: Split to 21? (Alex Zamanian, Aug 2000)
- Opening 53: Why make the three point? (Kit Woolsey+, Feb 1996)
- Opening 6's: Slot the bar point? (Chuck Bower+, Feb 2000)
- Opening 6's: Slot the bar point? (David Montgomery, June 1995)
- Opening 62: Could running be best? (Gary Wong, Sept 1997)
- Opening 62: Split, run, or slot? (Chuck Bower, May 1997)
- Opening 63: Middle Eastern split? (Mark+, Apr 2002)
- Opening 63: Slot the four point? (Dennis Cartwright+, Mar 2002)
- Opening 64: Make the two point? (William Hill+, Jan 1998)
- Opening 64: Make the two point? (Darse Billings, Feb 1995)
- Opening 64: Rollout (Peter Grotrian, Jan 2006)
- Opening 64: Split to 20? (Peter Bell, June 1995)
- Opening 64: Three choices (Brian Sheppard, July 1997)
- Opening 65: Becker on lover's leap (Jeffrey Spiegler+, Aug 1991)
- Opening 65: Computer rankings (Chuck Bower, Jan 1997)
- Opening rolls ranked (Arthur+, Apr 2005)
- Rollouts of opening 21 and replies (Alexander Nitschke, Oct 1997)
- Rollouts of openings (Tom Keith+, Jan 2006)
- Rollouts: Expert Backgammon (Tom Fahland, Aug 1994)
- Rollouts: Jellyfish 3.0 (Midas+, Sept 1997)
- Rollouts: Jellyfish 3.0 level 6 (Chuck Bower, Feb 1999)
- Rollouts: Snowie 4.1 (Rene Cerutti, Apr 2004)
- Slotting the four point (Joe Loria+, Oct 1999)
- Snowie's openers and replies (rcerutti, Feb 1999)
- Splitting versus building (Dave Slayton+, Aug 2000)
- Splitting versus slotting (Daniel Murphy, Apr 2001)
- Splitting versus slotting (Daniel Murphy, Sept 1997)
- Trice's rankings (Marty Storer, Feb 1992)
Pip Counting
- Casting out crossovers (Mark Denihan, Oct 1996)
- Cluster counting (camelx+, May 2005)
- Counting half rolls (Bob Hoey, Apr 1998)
- Half-crossover method (Douglas Zare, Mar 2002)
- Live play versus online (Stanley E. Richards+, Apr 2006)
- Live play versus online (Rich+, Mar 2006)
- Mental shift (Stephen Turner, Oct 1996)
- Modified direct count (Daithi, Mar 2011)
- Opposing sums and differences (Donald Kahn, Apr 1998)
- Running pip count (Rodrigo Andrade+, Apr 1998)
- Symmetry method, Grouping men (Brian Sheppard, Jan 1997)
- The 51/21 count (kruidenbuiltje, Mar 2011)
- Tips (Patti Beadles, Dec 1994)
- Tips for counting pips (neilkaz, Sept 2010)
Play Sites
- Arkadium (Michael Volpatt, Oct 2003)
- BG Room (Stanley E. Richards+, Oct 2007)
- Backgammon4Money--Announcement (Will Edison, Dec 2001)
- Best value (Kenny Lee Smith+, June 1998)
- Club Games (Ashton Haze, Sept 2005)
- Club Games (Tomawaky+, May 2005)
- Comparison of rakes (Raccoon, Dec 2006)
- Comparison of rakes (Raccoon, July 2006)
- Comparison of rakes (Hank Youngerman+, Oct 2005)
- Comparison of rakes (Daniel, Aug 2005)
- DailyGammon (Dan Wittkopp+, July 2004)
- DailyGammon (Scott Steiner+, Apr 2004)
- DailyGammon (Phil Vanicek, May 2001)
- FIBS vs. GamesGrid (Bob Stringer, May 2000)
- FIBS--Financial support (Kit Woolsey, Aug 1997)
- FIBS--Original announcement (Andreas Schneider, July 1992)
- FIBS--Top Tournament Performers (Osman Guner, July 2003)
- FIBS--Your worst fears (Richard Greenberg, Nov 1995)
- Fair Backgammon (info, May 2006)
- Free online tournaments (Ricardo Hui+, Mar 2009)
- Friendly play site (Ian Dunstan+, Feb 2006)
- GameDesire (Maciej Mróz, Sept 2004)
- GameSite2000--Announcment (GameSite 2000, Jan 2000)
- Games4Dollars (Info Team, Apr 2004)
- GamesGrid vs FIBS (Jim Cochrane, Jan 1999)
- GamesGrid--Announcement (CyberArts Inc., June 1996)
- GamesGrid--Comparison to FIBS (Ken Arnold, May 1997)
- GamesGrid--Second version (Ken Arnold, Sept 1996)
- GamesGrid--Update (Ken Arnold, Mar 1998)
- Gammon Empire--Announcement (Jerry, Nov 2004)
- Gammon11 (sirkaber, May 2006)
- HigherGames--Announcement (Michael Gilbert, Dec 2003)
- ItsYourTurn--Announcement (Tom Buhrman, Sept 1999)
- Ladbrokes.com (mccm1976, May 2006)
- Link to review of play sites (cindybel+, May 2006)
- MSN Gaming Zone--Overall experience (Mark Ferrante+, Nov 1997)
- MSN Gaming Zone--Thoughts (Gregg Cattanach, Dec 1998)
- MoneyGaming.com (max+, July 2005)
- NOBS (Lou Poppler+, Aug 1996)
- Overview (chinaski+, June 2008)
- Overview (Alan Webb, Jan 1999)
- PiranhaGammon (Piranha, Dec 2007)
- Play site wish list (Perry Gartner+, Dec 2012)
- Play65/GammonEmpire (Butch Meese+, July 2005)
- Play65/GammonEmpire (Daniel Murphy+, Dec 2004)
- Play65/GammonEmpire vs. TrueMoneyGames (oneprime+, Feb 2005)
- Play65/GammonEmpire--Are they the same? (Tony Yarwood+, Aug 2005)
- Play65/GammonEmpire--Review (Tom Keith+, Sept 2005)
- Play65/GammonEmpire--Withdrawal symptoms (David Warmind+, May 2007)
- Play65/GammonEmpire--Withdrawal symptoms (Erik Sorensen+, Apr 2007)
- Playmaker World--Announcement (Michael Crane, Nov 2001)
- Playsite--Announcement (Seth Tapper, Mar 1997)
- Ratings comparison (Daniel Murphy, Aug 1999)
- Richard's Play-by-E-mail Server (Richard Rognlie, May 1997)
- TrueMoneygames--Announcement (TrueMoneygames Info, Apr 2002)
- VOG (Glenn+, Feb 2000)
- Where to play for money (mginat+, May 2006)
- Where to play for money (Victor Zanfer+, Apr 2005)
- Yahoo Games (Steve Fiete+, Mar 1998)
- Yahoo Games--Ratings (Neil GoBlu+, July 2000)
- melBG--Announcement (David Kinston, Dec 2000)
Probability and Statistics
- Average game and match length (JP White, Dec 2000)
- Average luck of each roll (Timothy Chow+, Mar 2013)
- Average luck of each roll (Jørn Thyssen+, Feb 2004)
- Calculating winning chances (Douglas Zare, June 2000)
- Chance of rolling x doubles in y rolls (Raccoon+, July 2007)
- Chance of rolling x or more pips in y rolls (Tom Keith, Feb 2004)
- Clumping of random numbers (Gary Wong, Sept 1998)
- Counting shots (Koyunbaba+, June 2007)
- Counting shots (John Little+, Mar 2007)
- Distribution of points per game (Roland Sutter, June 1999)
- Distribution of points per game (Stig Eide+, Sept 1995)
- Expected variation in points after a series of games (Achim Müller+, Feb 1999)
- How many games to decide who's better? (Stephen Turner, Mar 1997)
- How often is too often? (Gary Wong, Oct 1998)
- Losing after bearing off 14 checkers (Daniel Murphy, July 1999)
- Number of games per match (Jason Lee+, Jan 2005)
- Number of rolls to enter x checkers from bar (Michael Depreli+, Mar 2011)
- Visualizing odds (Daithi, Mar 2011)
Programming
- Adjusting to a weaker opponent (Brian Sheppard, July 1997)
- Anticomputer positions (Bill Taylor+, June 1998)
- BKG 9.8 vs. Villa (Raccoon+, Aug 2006)
- BKG 9.8 vs. Villa (Andreas Schneider, June 1992)
- BKG beats world champion (Marty Storer, Sept 1991)
- Backgames (David Montgomery+, June 1998)
- Blockading feature (Sam Pottle+, Feb 1999)
- Board encoding for neural network (Brian Sheppard, Feb 1997)
- Bot weaknesses (Douglas Zare, Mar 2003)
- Building and training a neural-net player (Brian Sheppard, Aug 1998)
- How to count plies? (Chuck Bower+, Jan 2004)
- How to count plies? (tanglebear+, Mar 2003)
- Ideas for improving computer play (David Montgomery, Feb 1994)
- Ideas on computer players (Brian Sheppard, Feb 1997)
- Introduction (Gareth McCaughan, Oct 1994)
- Measuring Difficulty (John Robson+, Feb 2005)
- Methods of encoding positions (Gary Wong, Jan 2001)
- N-ply algorithm (eXtreme Gammon, Jan 2011)
- Neural net questions (Brian Sheppard, Mar 1999)
- Pruning the list of moves (David Montgomery+, Feb 1994)
- Search in Trees with Chance Nodes (Thomas Hauk, Feb 2004)
- Source code (Gary Wong, Dec 1999)
- TD-Gammon vs. Robertie (David Escoffery, June 1992)
- Training for different gammon values (Gerry Tesauro, Feb 1996)
- Training neural nets (Walter Trice, Nov 2000)
- Variance reduction in races (David Montgomery+, Dec 1998)
- Variance reduction of rollouts (Michael J. Zehr+, Aug 1998)
- Variance reduction of rollouts (Jim Williams, June 1997)
- What is a "neural net"? (Gary Wong, Oct 1998)
- Writing a backgammon program (Gary Wong, Jan 1999)
Propositions
- Choose roll vs. double roll (Larry Deckel, Jan 1997)
- Choose roll vs. double-roll (Rafy Marootians+, Mar 1994)
- Eight checkers vs. fifteen (Raccoon, Feb 2006)
- Fifteen on the bar (Pete+, Nov 2002)
- Monte Carlo 1998 (Daniel Murphy, Feb 2006)
- No ones (Murat Kalinyaprak, Oct 2002)
- Opening 11 vs. Owning the cube (Bob Ebbeler+, Aug 1999)
- Tino Road Position (Arthur+, Apr 2005)
- Up in the air (Daniel Murphy, Feb 2006)
Puzzles
- 13 blots (Timothy Chow+, Aug 2009)
Alice, who is not on the bar, discovers that however she plays she ends up with 13 blots. What is her position and roll?
- All-time best roll (Kit Woolsey+, Dec 1997)
What position and roll give the greatest gain in equity?
- All-time worst roll (Tim Chow+, Feb 2009)
Find a position that goes from White being too good to double to Black being too good to double.
- All-time worst roll (Michael J. Zehr, Jan 1998)
What position and roll give the greatest loss in equity?
- Back to Nack (Zorba+, Oct 2005)
How can you go from the backgammon starting position to Nackgammon?
- Cube ownership determines correct play (Kit Woolsey, Jan 1995)
Find a position and roll where the correct play depends on who owns the cube.
- Highest possible gammon rate (Robert-Jan Veldhuizen+, May 2004)
What is the highest possible gammon rate in an undecided game?
- Infinite loops (Timothy Chow, Mar 2013)
- Is this position reachable? (Timothy Chow+, Feb 2013)
- Janowski Paradox (Robert-Jan Veldhuizen+, Nov 2000)
Position that's a redouble but not a double?
- Least shots on a blot within direct range (Raymond Kershaw, Dec 1998)
Find a position with no men on bar that has the least number of shots out of 36 to hit a blot within direct range.
- Legal but not likely (David desJardins, July 2000)
Find a position that can be legally reached but never through optimum play.
- Lowest probability of winning (masque de Z+, Apr 2012)
What is the smallest win probability in backgammon, greater than zero.
- Mirror puzzle (Nack Ballard, Apr 2010)
Go from the starting position to the mirror position (colors reversed)
- Most checkers on the bar (Tommy K., May 1997)
What is the maximum total possible checkers on the bar?
- Most possible plays (Kees van den Doel+, May 2002)
Find the position and dice roll which have the most possible plays.
- Not-so-greedy bearoff (Kit Woolsey, Mar 1997)
Find a no-contact position where it is better to move a checker than bear one off.
- Not-so-greedy bearoff (Walter Trice, Dec 1994)
Find a no-contact position where it is better to move a checker than bear one off.
- Priming puzzle (Gregg Cattanach+, May 2005)
From the starting position, form a full 6-prime in three rolls.
- Pruce's paradox (Alan Pruce+, Dec 2012)
- Quiz (Martin Krainer, Oct 2003)
- Replace the missing checkers (Gary Wong+, Oct 1998)
- Returning to the start (Nack Ballard, May 2010)
What is the least number of rolls that can return a game to the starting position?
- Returning to the start (Tom Keith+, Nov 1996)
What is the least number of rolls that can return a game to the starting position?
- Shortest game (Stephen Turner+, Jan 1996)
What is the shortest (cubeless) game in which both players play reasonably?
- Small chance of ending in doubles (Walter Trice, Dec 1999)
Find a position where the probability of the game ending in doubles is less than 1/6.
- Three-cube position (Timothy Chow+, Sept 2011)
Find a position and roll for which three different checker plays are best, depending on the location of the cube.
- Trivia question (Walter Trice, Dec 1998)
What is the symmetric bearoff with the smallest pip count that is not an initial double?
- Worst possible checker play (Gregg Cattanach+, June 2004)
What position and roll have the largest difference between best and worst play?
- Worst possible opening move (Gregg Cattanach, June 2004)
What is the worst possible first move given any choice of dice?
- Worst symmetric bearoff of 8 checkers (Gregg Cattanach+, Jan 2004)
What symmetric arrangement of 8 checkers in each player's home board gives roller least chance to win?
- Worst takable position (Christopher Yep, Jan 1994)
What position has lowest chance of winning but is a correct take if doubled?
- Zero equity positions (Kit Woolsey, Apr 1995)
Find a position with exactly zero equity in (1) money play or (2) cubeless.
Ratings
- Constructing a ratings system (Matti Rinta-Nikkola, Dec 1998)
- Converting to points-per-game (David Montgomery, Aug 1998)
- Cube error rates (Joe Russell+, July 2009)
- Different length matches (Jim Williams+, Oct 1998)
- Different length matches (Tom Keith, May 1998)
- ELO system (seeker, Nov 1995)
- Effect of droppers on ratings (Gary Wong+, Feb 1998)
- Emperical analysis (Gary Wong, Oct 1998)
- Error rates (David Levy, July 2009)
- Experience required for accurate rating (Jon Brown+, Nov 2002)
- FIBS rating distribution (Gary Wong, Nov 2000)
- FIBS rating formula (Patti Beadles, Dec 2003)
- FIBS vs. GamesGrid ratings (Raccoon+, Mar 2006)
- Fastest way to improve your rating (Backgammon Man+, May 2004)
- Field size and ratings spread (Daniel Murphy+, June 2000)
- Improving the rating system (Matti Rinta-Nikkola, Nov 2000)
- KG rating list (Daniel Murphy, Feb 2006)
- KG rating list (Tapio Palmroth, Oct 2002)
- MSN Zone ratings flaw (Hank Youngerman, May 2004)
- No limit to ratings (David desJardins+, Dec 1998)
- On different sites (Bob Newell+, Apr 2004)
- Opponent's strength (William Hill+, Apr 1998)
- Possible adjustments (Christopher Yep+, Oct 1998)
- Rating versus error rate (Douglas Zare, July 2006)
- Ratings and rankings (Chuck Bower, Dec 1997)
- Ratings and rankings (Jim Wallace, Nov 1997)
- Ratings on Gamesgrid (Gregg Cattanach, Dec 2001)
- Ratings variation (Kevin Bastian+, Feb 1999)
- Ratings variation (FLMaster39+, Aug 1997)
- Ratings variation (Ed Rybak+, Sept 1994)
- Strange behavior with large rating difference (Ron Karr, May 1996)
- Table of ratings changes (Patti Beadles, Aug 1994)
- Table of win rates (William C. Bitting, Aug 1995)
- Unbounded rating theorem (David desJardins+, Dec 1998)
- What are rating points? (Lou Poppler, Apr 1995)
- Why high ratings for one-point matches? (David Montgomery, Sept 1995)
Rollouts
- Advice (David Montgomery, Apr 1996)
- Cautionary tale (Kit Woolsey, Sept 1995)
- Combining rollouts (Gregg Cattanach+, Dec 2003)
- Confidence intervals (Bob Koca, Nov 2010)
- Confidence intervals (Timothy Chow, May 2010)
- Confidence intervals (Gerry Tesauro, Feb 1994)
- Cubeless vs centered-cube rollouts (Ron Karr, Dec 1997)
- Duplicate dice (David Montgomery, June 1998)
- How reliable are rollouts? (David Montgomery, Aug 1999)
- Level-5 versus level-6 rollouts (Michael J. Zehr, June 1998)
- Level-5 versus level-6 rollouts (Chuck Bower, Aug 1997)
- Positions with inaccurate rollouts (Douglas Zare, Oct 2002)
- Reporting results of rollouts (David Montgomery, June 1995)
- Rollout settings (Lokicol+, Apr 2010)
- Settlement limit (Michael J. Zehr, Apr 1998)
- Settlement limit (Kit Woolsey, Dec 1997)
- Settlement limit in races (Alexander Nitschke, Dec 1997)
- Some guidelines (Kit Woolsey, Apr 1996)
- Standard error and JSD (rambiz+, Feb 2011)
- Standard error and JSD (Stick+, Oct 2007)
- Systematic error (Chuck Bower, Oct 1996)
- Tips for doing rollouts (Douglas Zare, June 2002)
- Truncated rollouts (Gregg Cattanach, Oct 2002)
- Truncated rollouts: pros and cons (Jason Lee+, Jan 2006)
- What is a rollout? (Gregg Cattanach, Dec 1999)
Rules
- Bearing off question (Colin Wiel+, July 2000)
- Can a beaver be dropped? (Robert-Jan Veldhuizen+, Mar 2006)
- Can a beaver be dropped? (Stein Kulseth, May 2000)
- Changing dice (Julian Hayward, Feb 1998)
- Checker shuffling (James Johnson+, June 2000)
- Gentleman's previlege (Daniel+, Sept 2005)
- Hit and run (Rich+, Jan 2000)
- "Illegal moves" rule (Chuck Bower+, May 2004)
- Illegal plays (Bob+, Aug 2002)
- Illegal plays (Marc Gray, Nov 1995)
- Illegal plays that can't be condoned (Matt Cohn-Geier+, Feb 2011)
- Is stalemate possible? (Jan Andrew Bloxham+, July 1995)
- Jacoby rule (Daniel Murphy, Dec 1997)
- Jacoby rule ambiguity? (Chuck Bower+, Mar 2011)
- Jacoby rule--Good or bad? (neilkaz+, May 2006)
- Legal roll (Sture Lifh+, July 2004)
- Legal roll (Gregg Cattanach, Oct 2001)
- Moving checkers unambiguously (Timothy Chow+, Oct 2009)
- Moving checkers with two hands (Michael Strato+, June 2000)
- Must a hit checker be placed on the bar? (Dani+, May 2006)
- Pick and pass and bearing off (SimonW+, Jan 2005)
- Play cubeless at 2away/2away? (Raccoon+, Oct 2005)
- Repairing an illegal play (Michael J. Zehr, Apr 1995)
- Resigning (Bob Lang+, Aug 2002)
- Rolling on wrong side of board (Ian Shaw+, Aug 2004)
- Rolling on wrong side of board (Kit Woolsey, Jan 1999)
- Rolling on wrong side of board (Kit Woolsey, Sept 1998)
- Rolling on wrong side of board (Bob Hoey, Apr 1998)
- Rolling too soon (TonyM+, Feb 2007)
- Rolling too soon (Stephen Turner, Feb 1998)
- Rolling too soon (James Grenier+, Sept 1996)
- Talking during play (EdmondT+, Dec 2000)
- Touch-move rule in backgammon? (Ken Bame+, Nov 2006)
- Touch-move rule in backgammon? (Austefjord+, May 2002)
- U.S. backgammon tournament rules (Butch Meese, Nov 1997)
- When do you give up your chance to double? (Paul Epstein+, July 2005)
- When is a move over? (JP White, May 2000)
- Overview (Daniel Murphy, Apr 2001)
Rulings
- Checker knocked off bar (Chuck Bower+, Sept 2003)
- Clock rules and gin positions (Chris Yep+, Dec 2007)
- Clock rules end of turn (Jason Lee+, Dec 2007)
- Cocked dice (Rodney Lighton+, July 2012)
- Cocked dice (Ed Rosenblum+, Dec 2009)
- Cocked dice (Chuck Bower+, July 2003)
- Cocked die on first roll (Cloyd Laporte+, Nov 2006)
- Crawford game double (Øystein Johansen+, June 2004)
- Crawford game double (Joe+, May 2004)
- Crawford game double (Raccoon+, Sept 2003)
- Crawford game double (Claes Thornberg+, Apr 1998)
- Dice sliding (Chris Yep+, Dec 2007)
- Disagreement on final cube (Chuck Bower+, May 2004)
- Disagreement over cocked dice (DeaconBlue+, May 2005)
- Disputed roll (Roland Scheicher+, Mar 2004)
- Disputed roll (Chuck Bower+, Mar 2000)
- Doubling to wrong value (Stein Kulseth+, Nov 1998)
- Equipment changes (Jason Lee+, Feb 2004)
- Error in setup (Stick+, Dec 2007)
- Incorrect setup (Ken+, Mar 2004)
- Kibitzing (Ilia Guzei+, Feb 2006)
- Misplaced cube (Ned Cross+, Mar 2004)
- Misplacing a checker off the board (Sam Pottle+, Apr 2006)
- Misplacing a checker on the bar (Jeb Horton, Dec 2002)
- Moving checkers before you roll (Gregg Cattanach+, Mar 2006)
- Moving with two hands (Jason Lee+, Jan 2011)
- Opening roll loser picks up his die (Chuck Bower+, Oct 2007)
- Playing to wrong match length (Klaus Evers+, Jan 2006)
- Playing to wrong match length (Marty Storer+, Mar 2005)
- Playing to wrong match length (Steve Mellen, Feb 1998)
- Playing wrong opponent (Hank Youngerman+, Oct 2005)
- Premature actions (Raccoon+, Feb 2008)
- Premature roll (Chris Yep+, Dec 2007)
- Repositioning dice without notice (Chuck Bower+, Oct 2007)
- Rerolling cocked dice too quickly (Raccoon+, Nov 2006)
- Rolling 2 dice instead of 1 to start (Bob Koca+, Oct 2007)
- Rolling when opponent is closed out (Raccoon+, Nov 2006)
- Rolling wrong dice (TarHeelFan+, Sept 2005)
- Taking photos of positions (Stick+, Dec 2007)
- Touching the doubling cube (Ken Bame+, Nov 2006)
- Touching the doubling cube (Chuck Bower+, Apr 1998)
- Two cubes on the board (Jason Lee+, July 2005)
- Video dispute resolution (Jason Lee+, Feb 2006)
- When are the dice "up"? (Ilia Guzei+, Feb 2006)
- Writing down positions (Klaus Evers+, Jan 2006)
Snowie
- Announcement (Olivier Egger, Apr 1998)
- Checker-play-according-to-score bug (Peter Schneider+, June 2001)
- Error rates (Gregg Cattanach, Oct 2000)
- Hints and questions (Achim Müller+, Aug 1998)
- Luck calculation (Gregg Cattanach+, Dec 1999)
- Questions and answers (David Montgomery, Dec 1998)
- Running in low priority (lmfback+, Oct 2004)
- Snowie 4.0 (SnowieGroup Info, Oct 2002)
- Snowie 4.3 update (Gregg Cattanach, July 2005)
- Snowie cube evaluation (Kit Woolsey, Sept 2007)
- Snowie vs GNU (Stanley E. Richards+, Oct 2005)
- Snowie vs. Jellyfish (Mark Driver, Apr 2001)
- Snowie vs. Jellyfish (Daniel Murphy, Oct 2000)
- Snowie vs. Jellyfish (Gregg Cattanach+, Sept 2000)
- Snowie vs. Jellyfish (Wayne Crookes, Jan 1999)
- Snowie vs. Jellyfish (Kenneth M. Arnold+, May 1998)
- Terminology (Alexander Nitschke, Sept 1998)
- Using rollouts (Michael J. Zehr+, Oct 1998)
Software
- Html/Php: BG Replay (match replayer) (Paul Stephens, Mar 2005)
- Java: BG-Blitz (player, analyzer) (Frank Berger+, Sept 1998)
- Java: BG-Blitz--How strong? (Misja+, Nov 2005)
- Java: BG-Blitz--How strong? (montygram+, June 2005)
- Java: BG-Blitz--Version 2.0 (Frank Berger+, Apr 2006)
- Java: Chouette calculator (Gamer Cafe Software, June 1997)
- Mac: Expert Backgammon (player) (Butch Meese+, Feb 1993)
- Mac: Play-O-Matic (game replayer) (Paul Ferguson, Feb 1997)
- Palm OS: Agushka (player) (pip_panther, May 2000)
- Palm OS: SlapGammon (player) (GandyDancer+, May 2003)
- Palm OS: SlapGammon (player) (Alan Cairns, Apr 2002)
- Palm OS: SlapGammon (player) (Michael Plog, Jan 2002)
- Windows CE: BGLightCE (Andy Rudnitsky+, Sept 2002)
- Windows: BG by George (player) (Stuart Cracraft+, July 1991)
- Windows: Backgammon Varia (player) (Peter van Campen, Mar 1996)
- Windows: Backgammon-To-Lose (Gamer Cafe Software, Mar 1998)
- Windows: Blowfish (analyser) (Mike Rudman, Dec 2001)
- Windows: Cybergammon (player) (John S Mamoun, Jan 1998)
- Windows: Database interface (Hugh Sconyers, Jan 1998)
- Windows: Dueller (bot-vs-bot intermediary) (Tony Lezard, Oct 2002)
- Windows: Exact Bearoff (analyzer) (Michel Grimminck, Dec 1999)
- Windows: Jellyfish 3.0 (player, analyzer) (Fredrik Dahl, June 1997)
- Windows: MVP Backgammon (player) (Michael Quinn, Feb 1996)
- Windows: Monte Carlo (player) (Gamer Cafe Software, June 1998)
- Windows: Penguin backgammon (player) (Pojchara Jatupoj, Sept 2003)
- Windows: Sconyers's bearoff database (Hugh Sconyers+, June 2003)
- Windows: Snowie 3 (player, analyzer) (André Nicoulin, Dec 1999)
- Windows: Soumille, The First Trictrac Program (David Levy, May 2003)
Source Code
- Benchmark player "pubeval.c" (Gerry Tesauro, Feb 1993)
- GamesGrid .CBG viewer in flex (Gary Wong, Sept 1997)
- Match equity calculator (Claes Thornberg, Sept 1996)
- Move generator (Gary Wong, Oct 1998)
- Rfibs and sfibs recorder and replayer (Jan Spitzkowsky, Aug 1994)
- race2.c (Marc Ringuette, Dec 1993)
- race4.c (Marc Ringuette, Dec 1993)
Strategy--Backgames
- After an early blitz attempt (Daniel Murphy, Apr 1997)
- But they're so much fun! (Laury Chizlett+, Oct 2000)
- Checker problem (David Montgomery+, May 1995)
- Defending against a backgame (KL Gerber+, Jan 2003)
- Defending against a backgame (Michael J. Zehr, Jan 1995)
- How many men back? (Brian Sheppard, July 1997)
- Play for a backgame from the start? (Alan Webb+, Dec 1998)
- What is a backgame? (Daniel Murphy, Apr 2001)
- When to double (David Montgomery, May 1995)
- Which anchor is best? (Kit Woolsey, July 1996)
- Which anchor to break (Brian Sheppard, May 1997)
- Which anchors are best? (sebalotek+, Jan 2012)
- Which anchors are best? (Adam Stocks, Apr 2002)
- Which anchors are best? (Mary Hickey, Mar 2001)
- Which anchors are best? (Jerry Weaver+, Apr 1998)
- Which anchors are best? (Chuck Bower, Jan 1997)
- Which anchors are best? (Marc Gray, Nov 1995)
Strategy--Bearing Off
- Greedy bearoff exception (Stick+, Jan 2011)
- Playing for gammon (Max Levenstein+, Aug 2011)
- Rules of thumb (Rich Munitz+, Oct 2009)
- Wastage (David Montgomery, Apr 1996)
- Wastage--Positions that minimize (Stig Eide, Apr 1996)
- Which gaps to fill (Kit Woolsey, Mar 1996)
- Winning the bearoff race (Dave Flaks+, Jan 2001)
Strategy--Checker play
- Avoiding major oversights (Chuck Bower+, Mar 2008)
- Bearing off with contact (Walter Trice, Dec 1999)
- Bearing off with contact (Daniel Murphy, Mar 1998)
- Blitzing strategy (Michael J. Zehr, July 1997)
- Blitzing strategy (Fredrik Dahl, July 1997)
- Blitzing technique (Albert Silver+, July 2003)
- Breaking anchor (abc, Mar 2004)
- Breaking contact (Alan Webb+, Oct 1999)
- Coming under the gun (Kit Woolsey, July 1996)
- Common errors (David Levy, Oct 2009)
- Containment positions (Brian Sheppard, July 1998)
- Coup Classique (Paul Epstein+, Dec 2006)
- Cube ownership considerations (Kit Woolsey, Apr 1996)
- Cube-influenced checker play (Rew Francis+, Apr 2003)
- Defending against a blitz (Michael J. Zehr, Jan 1995)
- Estimating in volatile situations (Kit Woolsey, Mar 1997)
- Gammonish positions (Michael Manolios, Nov 1999)
- Golden point (Henry Logan+, Nov 2002)
- Hitting loose in your home board (Douglas Zare, June 2000)
- Holding games (Casual_Observer, Jan 1999)
- How to trap an anchor (Timothy Chow+, Apr 2010)
- Jacoby rule consideration (Ron Karr, Nov 1996)
- Kamikaze plays (christian munk-christensen+, Nov 2010)
- Kleinman Count for bringing checkers home (Øystein Johansen, Feb 2001)
- Late loose hits (Douglas Zare+, Aug 2007)
- Mutual holding game (Ron Karr, Dec 1996)
- Pay now or pay later? (Stuart Katz, MD, Nov 1997)
- Pay now or pay later? (Stephen Turner, Mar 1997)
- Pay now or play later? (Hank Youngerman+, Sept 1998)
- Play versus a novice (Courtney S Foster+, Apr 2004)
- Playing doublets (Grunty, Jan 2008)
- Playing when opponent has one man back (Kit Woolsey, May 1995)
- Prime versus prime (Albert Silver+, Aug 2006)
- Prime versus prime (Michael J. Zehr, Mar 1996)
- Saving gammon (Bill Riles, Oct 2009)
- Saving gammon (Ron Karr, Dec 1997)
- Splitting your back men (KL Gerber+, Nov 2002)
- Splitting your back men (David Montgomery, June 1995)
- Trap play problem (Brian Sheppard, Feb 1997)
- When in doubt (Stick+, Apr 2011)
- When to run the last checker (Stick Rice+, Jan 2009)
- When you can't decide (John O'Hagan, Oct 2009)
Terminology
- Alphabet soup (Tom Keith, Apr 2004)
- "Anchor and guard" position (Chase+, Apr 2010)
- "Back game" (Marty Storer, Jan 2004)
- "Baffle box" (garyo+, Mar 2005)
- "Bagai position" (Timothy Chow, Dec 2012)
- "Banana split" (Rich Munitz+, June 2011)
- "Banana split" (Adam Stocks+, Sept 2004)
- "Beavers" (Sander van Rijnswou, May 1999)
- "Beavers" (Shuman Lloyd Lee, Aug 1991)
- "Blunder", "whopper" (Raccoon+, July 2005)
- "Bot" (Pit Bull+, Mar 2004)
- "Bronstein" clock setting (rew+, Sept 2012)
- "Calcutta auction" (Roland Scheicher+, Dec 2001)
- "Chouette" (Roland Scheicher+, Mar 2002)
- "Cube provocation play" (Chuck Bower+, Apr 2007)
- "Dance" (William R. Tallmadge, May 1998)
- "Dropper" (Robert D. Johnson, Sept 1996)
- "Duplication" and "diversification" (Simon Woodhead, Nov 1991)
- "Equity" (Gregg Cattanach, Aug 2000)
- "Equity" (Gary Wong, Dec 1998)
- "Equity" (Chuck Bower, Oct 1996)
- "Equity" (Michael J. Zehr, Mar 1996)
- "Equity", "volatility", "claim", "market" (Erik Gravgaard, June 1995)
- "Freeroll" (montygram, Nov 2005)
- "Gammon price" (Ron Karr, Aug 1996)
- "Gammon rate", "gammon price" (David Montgomery, June 1995)
- "Gammon-go" (GG) and "gammon-save" (GS) (Mary Hickey, Feb 2004)
- "Gammon-go" (GG) and "gammon-save" (GS) (Marty Storer, Oct 2002)
- "Gammon-go" (GG) (Chuck Bower, Jan 2004)
- "Golden point" (Daniel Murphy, Dec 2004)
- "Holding game" (Alan Webb+, Dec 1998)
- "In the box" (Ken Bame+, Sept 2012)
- International phrase dictionary (David Allen Sorensen, Sept 1997)
- "Joker" (Richard Divdesman, Sept 1998)
- "Kamikaze play" (Bill Patterson+, June 2011)
- "Kauder paradox" (Carl Tait+, Nov 1995)
- "Latto paradox" (Jean-Pierre Seiman+, July 2004)
- "Lose your market" (Shuman Lloyd Lee+, Aug 1991)
- "MCV" (Mislav Radica+, Oct 2009)
- "PRaT" (Raccoon+, Jan 2007)
- "Phantom double hit" (Marty Storer, May 2010)
- "Polish prime" (Jason Lee+, Jan 2006)
- "Pure play" (Daniel Murphy, Nov 2000)
- "Pure play" (Casey Forrest+, Feb 1996)
- "Raccoon" (Steven Keats, Feb 2011)
- "Root number" (Ken Bame, June 2004)
- "Russian Bridges" (leobueno+, Mar 2013)
- "Short play" (AJ+, July 2012)
- "Speed board" (Gregg Cattanach, June 2004)
- "Splot" (mamabear, Apr 2007)
- "Squeeze", "trap play" (Philippe Michel+, Feb 1997)
- "Suicide play" (Brian Sheppard, Aug 1997)
- "Swing tournament" (Carlo Melzi+, Mar 2006)
- "Table stakes" (Carlo Melzi, Sept 2002)
- "Technical play" (Adam Stocks+, July 2002)
- "Thematic" (Beauregard+, Aug 2009)
- "Thorp count" (Stephen Turner, June 1996)
- "Time," "timing," "checker," "dancing" (Marty Storer, Apr 1992)
- Turkish names for rolls (Lars Soezueer, Mar 1997)
- "Vigorish" (Anthony R Wuersch, Feb 1995)
- "Volatility" (Michael J. Zehr, June 1998)
- "Wash" (Hardy Hübener+, Sept 2004)
- "Wash" (Brian Sheppard, July 1997)
- "Weaver" (Alan Webb+, May 2000)
- "Zone" of attack (Matt Reklaitis+, Dec 2007)
Theory
- Derivation of drop points (Michael J. Zehr, Apr 1998)
- Double/take/drop rates (Gary Wong, June 1999)
- Drop rate on initial doubles (Gary Wong, July 1998)
- Error rate--Why count forced moves? (Ian Shaw+, Apr 2009)
- Error rates--Repeated ND errors (Joe Russell+, July 2009)
- Inconsistencies in how EMG equity is calculated (Jeremy Bagai, Nov 2007)
- Janowski's formulas (Joern Thyssen+, Aug 2000)
- Janowski's formulas (Stig Eide, Sept 1999)
- Jump Model for money game cube decisions (Mark Higgins+, Mar 2012)
- Number of distinct positions (Walter Trice, June 1997)
- Number of no-contact positions (Darse Billings+, Mar 2004)
- Optimal strategy? (Gary Wong, July 1998)
- Proof that backgammon terminates (Robert Koca+, May 1994)
- Solvability of backgammon (Gary Wong, June 1998)
- Undefined equity (Paul Tanenbaum+, Aug 1997)
- Under-doubling dice (Bill Taylor, Dec 1997)
- Variance reduction (Oliver Riordan, July 2003)
Tournaments
- Adjusting to face-to-face play (Paul Epstein+, Feb 2006)
- Adjusting to face-to-face play (Daniel Murphy, June 1999)
- Avoiding disputes (Kit Woolsey+, Oct 2007)
- Baffle box to roll dice (Ken Bame, Mar 2012)
- Calcutta auctions (David Moeser, Nov 2001)
- Calcutta auctions (Roland Scheicher+, Dec 1998)
- Calcutta auctions (Anthony R Wuersch, Oct 1994)
- Calcutta problems (Marty Storer, Dec 2002)
- Clock ethics (Patrick Gibson+, Mar 2009)
- Clock rules--Digital clocks (Chuck Bower+, Oct 2003)
- Clock rules--End of turn (Carlo Melzi+, July 2001)
- Clock rules--How do they work? (Gregg Cattanach, Oct 2002)
- Clock rules--Illegal move (Brendan Burgess+, Feb 2000)
- Clock rules--Why forfeit instead of penalty points? (neilkaz, Sept 2010)
- Clocks and older players (Stick+, July 2010)
- Clocks--Arguments against them (Timothy Chow, Jan 2011)
- Clocks--Common arguments against (Chuck Bower, Feb 2006)
- Clocks--Losing on time (Jason Lee+, Mar 2004)
- Clocks--Pros and cons (Michael Strato+, Jan 2004)
- Clocks--Should they be part of the game? (Kit Woolsey, June 1995)
- Clocks--Why use them (Stick, Jan 2011)
- Compensating for byes (Hank Youngerman+, Dec 1998)
- Factors that affect attendance (Stick, Oct 2009)
- "Fighter's bracket" (Chuck Bower+, Sept 2010)
- First backgammon tournament (Mislav Radica+, May 2007)
- First backgammon tournament (Ed Collins+, Dec 2006)
- Hedging (Jason Lee+, Apr 2009)
- Hedging (Marv Porten+, Feb 2009)
- Hedging (Tad Bright+, Jan 2003)
- Hitting clock instead of rolling (Bob Glass+, Mar 2010)
- Keeping score during a match (Gregg Cattanach, June 2007)
- Links to tournament rules (Daniel Murphy, Oct 2009)
- Major tournament attendance 1998-2008 (Daniel Murphy, July 2008)
- Making notes during play (Randy Pals+, Aug 2008)
- Manually recording a match (Kevin P+, Apr 2007)
- Manually recording a match (gammonus+, Feb 2006)
- Manually recording a match (Daniel Murphy, Aug 1999)
- New U.S. Rules (Gregg Cattanach+, Dec 2007)
- Newbie questions (Donald Kahn, Oct 1999)
- Playing at Monte Carlo (Achim, July 2007)
- Playing-off 3 remaining players (Gregg Cattanach+, Apr 2007)
- Recording matches (Robert Maier, May 2009)
- Recording matches (Chuck Bower+, Sept 2003)
- Recording matches (Sean Dakin+, Aug 1999)
- Round robins (Hank Youngerman, Nov 2001)
- Rules for doubles play (with a partner) (steve+, May 2012)
- Seeding (Roland Scheicher+, Dec 1998)
- Skill level (Kirk J. Rupnik+, Nov 1998)
- Skill levels (Leonardo Jerkovic, Aug 2012)
- "Stop pots" (Chuck Bower+, Sept 2010)
- Swiss format (Osman Guner+, May 2001)
- Swiss format (Osman Guner, Oct 1998)
- Swiss format (Hank Youngerman+, Mar 1998)
- Tournament formats (MikeMadMonk+, May 2003)
- Tournament rules (Daniel Murphy, Apr 2001)
- Tournament rules links (Daniel Murphy, Oct 2009)
- Types of events (Daniel Murphy, Nov 1997)
- Uniform rules and procedures? (Michael Crane+, Mar 2003)
- Variable side pools (Art Grater+, July 2011)
- Vegas trip report (fall 2004) (Gregg Cattanach, Nov 2004)
- Vegas trip report (spring 2005) (Gregg Cattanach, May 2005)
- Videotaping matches (André Nicoulin+, Nov 2000)
- What is a "Monrad format"? (Daniel Murphy, Sept 2000)
- What is a "side pool"? (Daniel Murphy, Nov 1997)
Variations
- Acey-deucy (J. Nagel, Dec 2004)
- Acey-deucy (Steve Ewert, June 1998)
- Acey-deucy (Lee+, Jan 1997)
- Acey-deucy (John David Galt+, Dec 1995)
- Acey-deucy (James Eibisch, Apr 1995)
- Backwards play (Colin Bell+, Feb 1996)
- Bad advice (Jason Lee+, Mar 2004)
- Best-of-n variant of match play (Tim Chow+, Feb 2009)
- Bluff Cube (Timothy Chow+, Dec 2012)
- BluffGammon (Christian Munk-Christensen, June 2009)
- Cancelgammon (Ilia Guzei+, Mar 2004)
- Domino backgammon (Laury Chizlett, Sept 1999)
- Duodecagammon (David Moeser, Dec 2000)
- Duplicate backgammon (Dean Gay+, Jan 1997)
- Duplicate backgammon (Albert Steg, Feb 1996)
- Exact bearoff (Chris Moellering+, Dec 2002)
- Fevga (George, Sept 2004)
- Fevga (or Moultezim) (Igor Sheyn+, May 1995)
- Freeze-out match (Dave Brotherton, July 1998)
- Gabgammon (jckz, Oct 2005)
- Greek backgammon (Alexandre Charitopoulos, Aug 2003)
- Greek backgammon (Alexandros Chatzipetros, June 1997)
- Greek backgammon (Marc Jacobs+, Feb 1994)
- Hit man (Matt Reklaitis, Jan 2004)
- Hyper backgammon (Gregg Cattanach+, Dec 2000)
- Hyper backgammon (Michael A Urban, Oct 1993)
- International backgammon (Bob Lancaster+, Oct 2002)
- Jacquet (Mark Driver, June 2001)
- Joker cube (Joe Russell+, May 2011)
- Khachapuri (Michael Petch+, Sept 2010)
- Kleinman's tandem backgammon (Fabrice Liardet+, May 2010)
- LongRun (Bill Hickey, Mar 2010)
- Longgammon (Michael Strato, Dec 2000)
- Low number first, fixed dice, others. (Walter Trice, Jan 1997)
- Mexican (Tom Henry, Apr 1997)
- Middle Eastern backgammon (Alan Cairns, Mar 2002)
- Misere (backgammon to lose) (Jason Lee+, July 2004)
- Misere (backgammon to lose) (Jason Lee+, Apr 1995)
- Misere, Chase, Skewed dice (Stein Kulseth, Jan 1997)
- Nackgammon (Ken Arnold, July 1996)
- Nackgammon Shuffle (Stick, Sept 2011)
- Nackgammon opening moves (Warwick+, Feb 2002)
- Narde (narde, Nov 2006)
- Nardi (KL Gerber+, Nov 2002)
- No hit (RedTop+, May 2004)
- Nuclear backgammon (Walt Swan, Apr 1997)
- Old English (Nick Wedd+, Feb 1996)
- One roll lookahead (Stephen Turner, Mar 1997)
- Opening slot rule (Gregg Cattanach, June 2006)
- Other variations (Douglas Zare, Feb 2000)
- Plakoto (Ed Dengler+, May 1995)
- Plakoto (Pasteel M., Feb 1994)
- Plakoto express (Athansios Vagias, Feb 2005)
- Portes (George, Sept 2004)
- Roll-over (Edward D. Collins, Oct 1997)
- Russian backgammon (Daavid Turnbull, Aug 1991)
- SassanGammon (Chiva Tafazzoli+, June 2009)
- Shesh Besh (G.S., May 2003)
- Simborg Rule (Scott+, Feb 2005)
- Slot backgammon (Fabrice Liardet+, Aug 2008)
- Sudden death, Woodpecker, Gerhardsen (Fredrik Dahl, Jan 1997)
- Tablestakes betting (TrueMoneygames, June 2002)
- Takhteh (Bruce Scott+, Mar 2003)
- Tandem Backgammon (Mislav Kovacic, Feb 2012)
- Tavla (Arda Findikoglu, Nov 2004)
- Tavla (ucc02cx+, Feb 1997)
- Tavli (Portes, Plakoto, and Fevga) (Jens Larsen, July 1997)
- Tavli question (Brus+, Apr 2011)
- Tracy turn around (Michael J. Zehr, Feb 1996)
- Tri-gammon (Gregg Cattanach, Sept 2000)
- Trictrac (David Levy+, May 1998)
- Trigammon (James Eibisch, Jan 1997)
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