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I am a member of The Danish Backgammon Federation and I play in the Danish teams tournament for the team Rulle Marie. My member number is 10610 and my highest ranking on the Danish ranking list is about 20. I play very few tournaments and I do not have many results but I am the Danish champion 2004.
Rules and regulations can be found at Backgammon Galore. I have made a version of the Chouette rules and a printable version of the rules in PDF-format. Besides this I have made a full page Chouette scoresheet in PDF-format that fits the rules.
Backgammon Galore is probably one of the most popular backgammon place on the net. It contains computer analyzed matches and articles. Here you have a commented match between Kit Woolsey and Jeremy Bagai and between the computer programs Snowie 2.0 and JellyFish 3.5. It is good training for both beginners and skilled backgammon players to read commented matches especialy the ones commented by humans. Backgammon by the Bay provide some annotated games and problem sets thats good for learning too. Here a human comment his blunders. You can also read books to get better and here you have some book reviews.
Another way to get better at backgammon is to play and discus the game with better players. An effective way to do this is by playing Chouette. This can be expensive since most players will require that you play for money because of the nature of the game. People tend to take to many cubes if you do not play for money (this is such an interesting position - lets see what happens). An alternative is to play strip backgammon but I will not go further in to that here.
There is one type of opponents that will not require that you play for money and at the same time are very strong.
This type is called computer programs and you can download a strong free computer opponent.
The computer programs GNU Backgammon (free), JellyFish and Snowie enables a limited form of discussion
while playing against them.
More computer programs can be found at Chicago Point Backgammon Links.
There are a couple of places on the net, where you can play backgammon. E.g. I play on the First International Backgammon Server (FIBS) under the alias maxfriis. From here you can play now via. a non graphical connection to FIBS. Login as guest and follow the instructions. Here is a description of the commands used on FIBS. More FIBS-links can be found at Chicago Point Backgammon Links. Beginners that do not want to use time on finding out about FIBS commands (though they are pretty simple) can play now via. the Java based Yahoo! Games but the user interface is clearly inferior to FIBS's.
Beginners can look at my Opening rolls and my No-contact Basics page.
The pages give very limmited information so after viewing it you can look at pip counting technique by Sho. If you have special problems with dice and probability look at Ed's basic page on dice and the laws of probability and then at his simple backgammon lesson. Finally Ed have made some problems illustrating different thought patterns used in backgammon. If you have problems with Backgammon Glossary look at the backgammon glossary at Gammoned.com or at Backgammon Galore.
For advanced beginners and intermediate players I have made a page about The Doubling Strategy in Backgammon.
In matches its extra complicated to handle the double cube correctly. Learn more about this in the online article Backgammon Match Play and the Doubling Strategy. Rick Janowski has made a theoretical article on live cube take-points which is used by most backgammon computerprogrammers.
If you want a little more information about no-contact positions you should take a look at the articles Effective Pip Count and Tom Keith's Cube Handling In Races.
Finally I have made a backgammon quiz that I hope you can have some fun with.
Well you probably know better your self. I will list a few links some experts use however.
The most complete and nicest link collection on the web is Chicago Point Backgammon Links. Here is the Backgammon newsgroup rec.games.backgammon and here you have an archive with selected past articles in the newsgroup. You can also search Google News Groups for past articles (most experts in anything use search rather than links). If your looking for more discusions (e.g. cube actions and checker play) look at the Danish debate pages (in Danish mostely).
Last this page contain more backgammon links. You can also browse the backgammon pages of the Open Directory Project. If you would like to link my pages and need an image icon please browse to this section.
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