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The Art of the Double

The importance of the doubling dice cannot be overly stressed and the equity calculations are similar to online poker calculations in poker hands like you would see in the cash games at sites like www.pokerstars.co.uk . Without it, backgammon can be a relative game of chance within a 30-40% margin. With it, luck only comes [...]

Be Unconventional

After all is said and done with the mathematics and “right moves” in backgammon, you need to move to another level. You will, after your initial birth into the game, hopefully be by now a convert! What this means is that the books out there become somewhat redundant for you- as you will be playing [...]

Opening rolls: Playing an Opening 32

A usual trick question that arises when you are learning how to play backgammon is “What position is the most common to come up in backgammon?”The answer is inevitably the starting position. Since this position is the one that comes out the most frequently when playing backgammon it is quite important that you really know [...]

Backgammon Variant: American Acey Deucey (Part 4)

At any time that you have one or more checkers on the bar the first thing that you should doe is to reenter the checkers into the home board of your opponent. You reenter a checker by moving it to an open point that corresponds to one of the numbers of the rolled dice. If [...]

Backgammon Variant: American Acey Deucey (Part 3)

In American Acey Deucey the roll of a 1 and 2, called the acey deucey, is particularly useful and valuable. When a player rolls a 1 and 2 the following happens:* First, the player plays the 1 and the 2 using the normal rules * The player then names any roll of doubles that he [...]

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