Backgammon offers a great variety of strategies that can be applied in a number of situations. Still, many games end up in a race and there are a lot of players who enter a race at the earliest possibility. Only God knows what kind of kick they get out of it, one would think that a full-steam Blitz or priming game would offer a much more interesting game. Nevertheless, many games do end up in a race regardless whether you want to avoid it or not and since chances are that you’ll meet a lot of players on your favorite online backgammon site who just love an old-fashioned race, here it comes: how to play a Race.

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We all want to become good backgammon players, right? We read books, play online backgammon or invite our friends for an evening of backgammon minitournaments, seek out backgammon strategy guides, discuss tricky situations on various forums, etc. We do our best to improve our game the way WE think we should be doing. But what if a leading backgammon authority would give you a number of advice how to become a good backgammon player? What if that leading authority would be Philip Vischjager, the 2006 backgammon World Champion? Would you follow his advice?

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The blitz is a backgammon strategy many backgammon players describe as one of the most exciting backgammon strategies around. It involves aggressive attacking and when well executed the defender can’t do much except hope for the best. Gammons and dramatic swings of fortune are also at the very heart of a blitz and make interesting online backgammon matches.

This article teaches you how to recognize a starting blitz, what are the objectives on both sides and how to reach those objectives, as well as the key doubling strategies involved in a typical blitz.

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As promised in the first part of our Backgame article we continue now with the advanced strategical elements of a backgame. If you haven’t read the first part yet, read the Introduction to Backgame article. In this second part we will have a closer look at timing, doubling strategies and various anchor positions in a backgame.

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After a couple of slightly lighter off-topic game reviews it is time to get back to real online backgammon business. In this article we introduce you a typical backgammon situation called backgame and look at the basic strategies both for the leading and the trailing player.

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There are three types of online backgammon players: those who play backgammon the foolish way, those who play it the safe way and those that play it the winning way. Ask around and you’ll see that confidence in own backgammon skills is soaring high among backgammon player and that most believe they play backgammon the winning way - pretty much like most car driver’s believe they are better than average drivers. Too bad that the majority of those people are deluding themselves.

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After reviewing Handmark’s Backgammon for Palm OS v4.1 that we really liked we just couldn’t stop there. So we decided to make another detour from the regular online backgammon stuff, went out on the net, looked around and selected Backgammon Pro for Palm OS v1.27 from Stand Alone, Inc. for our next review. In comparison with Handmark’s Backgammon v4.1, Backgammon Pro is a clearly more advanced backgammon software with loads of settings available. But how does it compare to it on the fun factor?

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The backgammon World Championship in Monte Carlo was the main backgammon event of the year. Philip Vischjager from the Netherlands won the tournament and became the 31st Backgammon World Champion. WinningBackgammon.info decided to go to Philip and ask a few questions about the past, present and future.

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In today’s mobile world your mobile device can be both a powerful business tool and an entertainment center. So why not carry your favourite game with you at all times? Winningbackgammon.info tested two excellent mobile backgammon software: Backgammon for Palm OS v4.1 from Handmark and Backgammon Pro for Palm OS v1.27 from Stand Alone, Inc. First we’ll have a look at Handmark’s interpretation of backgammon.

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