Monday, October 13, 2008

Online Games.."Backgammon'

When a player enters the online backgammon world, he wants to play against someone on his own level, especially when playing backgammon for money. When you play a live backgammon game, you can check the level of your opponent simply by asking. On the online backgammon it's different, all the information you have is your opponent nick name. To solve this problem, the biggest online backgammon communities developed a ranking system that indicates the backgammon online skills of the players.

Here is an example to a rating method (the picture is from the Gammon Empire online backgammon software).

rating

The system is using the statistics of every player for ranking and the rating helps you decide against whom you want to play.

Having studied opening moves for many years, having had the benefit of experience, the use of computer softwares, and tremendous personal skill and intuition, the experts have virtually all agreed on the best opening moves for every possible dice combination can be. If you don't want to reduce your odds of winning do not make any move other than what the experts recommend. Let's simply go now through the list of what is the best opening moves, and reasonable variations for it...

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