I've been long believing that 3-pt anchor is better than other anchors, either advanced (4-pt,5-pt and 7-pt) or deep (1-pt and 2-pt), at least in the initial stages of the game. Here is my thesis:

Most of the times, BG games go such a way that one player has a lead in race and the other is following a holding/back game strategy. Of course, many times there are holding vs holding,...

This position was taken from a match between a fibster (White) and MonteCarlo bot (gray)  this afternoon.



The human player (White) had 97% chance to hit: 35 of all rolls other than 1-1, and guess what happened, he rolled 1-1.  .  Every 2,3,4,5 and 6...

You can view at joost the first four episodes of the WSOB 2007-2008 taking place in London

- Quarter-Final
- 1st Semi-Final
- 2nd Semi-Final
- And...

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During 2007, FIBS was the venue for a great year of backgammon action in FibsLeague.

2222 matches were played between 191 players during the year and it ended with a final invitational tournament for the 12 best players, called...

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Backgammon Masters online Backgammon operator - which operates the BM backgammon application has successfully completed its pilot for performing of signature verification.

The signature verification system works in order to verify members for VIP status.
BM has embedded the new patent pending Signature Link technology into their...

This week GamesGrid announced they will be shutting down their backgammon server at the end of May (effective immediately all money play has been suspended.)

More information is on the main page of the GamesGrid web site at www.gamesgrid.com

Thanks Fergy for submitting this news.

This match will start on Sunday 24th February at 1800UTC. The format will be best of three nine point matches.
Peggels from Germany qualified in 11th place from the 2007 order of merit and fought his way to the final by defeating don (USA)2-1, Rourke (New Zealand)2-0 and lastly mradica (Croatia)in the semi-final by 2-1. After losing the first match 9-0, Peggels levelled the tie with a 9-6...