Online Backgammon Guide

Online Backgammon is the easiest way to play backgammon these days. It is safer, fairer and more convenient than the traditional over-the-board type of play. Plus, online backgammon platforms are available 24/7, and you can always find someone to play with, for fun or for real money (at least at the biggest backgammon rooms).

Some of the advantages of online backgammon are known to everyone who have ever played an online game before - you can play at anytime, from everywhere, meet new people of different ages, sexes and locations, pay using variety of deposit methods, etc. However, online backgammon has some unique feature making internet backgammon more appealing even to the most devoted supporters of real life backgammon. Here are some of them:

Fair Play

Playing online backgammon is essentially fairer and more secure for several reasons:

• Backgammon softwares are programmed to recognize illegal moves and disable them, so if a players attempts to cheat by making one, he will fail.


• The dice used in most online backgammon websites are being tested periodically by an independent company for their randomness, so using a rigged dice when playing online is impossible.


• When playing for real money, the backgammon room is responsible for the payment to the winning player, so even if your opponent escapes without paying his dues, you will not have to chase him.

Automatic Backgammon Board Setup

Playing online backgammon also saves you the bother of setting the backgammon board at the start of each game, so you can play a long series of online backgammon games without taking care of this wearisome procedure.

Backgammon Game History and Analysis

If you are serious about backgammon, you are probably accustomed to record your games and analyze them using Snowie, GNU or any other backgammon bot. When playing backgammon online, it is much easier, since your entire game history is saved automatically. Thus, you can view and analyze your past backgammon games to improve your future games.

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