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December 3rd, 2006
As online backgammon popularity is increasing by the day it is a good moment to revisit hypergammon, one of the most popular variants of backgammon. In this article we will go through hypergammon rules and strategy of this very fast and exciting game.
November 26th, 2006
Last time we went through the game tactics on how to save the gammon. Now we can look at the other side of the coin; the situation when you can and should push for a gammon win. It is important that you are able to recognize the window of opportunity when to play for a gammon and that you are familiar at least with the essentials of the tactics. A well executed gammon win can effectively demoralize your online backgammon opponents and smoothen your way to a match win.
November 19th, 2006
Have a look at the picture below. Black is to play 4-4, what is the correct move? If you think it is to escape the two back men by playing 23/15 (2), well, it’s not. If you are wondering why, read on. This time it’s about optimized backgammon damage control.
November 9th, 2006
Times are rough for online gaming these days. The rules of the industry are being redefined and it’s us, the gamers, who feel the direct impact of it all… that all being the infamous Unlawful Internet Gaming bill. But wait - things are not as bad as they would seem at first! In fact, for online backgammon it doesn’t look bad at all.
September 26th, 2006
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.
September 20th, 2006
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?
September 17th, 2006
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.
September 14th, 2006
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.
September 12th, 2006
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.
September 12th, 2006
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.
There are over 10,000 players inGammon Empire
at any given moment.