Play Backgammon for free. The software is downloadable and has a chat feature included when playing against other players. Tournaments can also be played for Fun. To start playing simply download and open a new table or join a table.
Dice and deliberation
The main tool for backgammon whether you play on or offline is the dice.
The question that everyone will ask at one time or another in the online backgammon game is this Are the dice fixed? It is a reasonable question too, because unlike offline backgammon, the web based version is relying on software to deliver the functionality of the dice, so this leads to the next question is the software fixed? Of course whatever site you play with, will absolutely 110% say their dice are not fixed, but how do you prove it? Maybe these next few lines will help.
No matter what machine you use, or the system that you apply, random number generation is not a perfect art. Take a look at the various lottery outlets around the world and see how they are prone to fail, even one of the oldest systems ERNIE the UK's Premium Bond Random number generator has had failures, but in the majority of cases they are merely glitches in the system.
In the case of a gambling site, a much more in-depth analysis is necessary to evaluate the process. So here goes. In a given 24 hour period the system generated 8 million dice rolls, the dice are pre-rolled for each millisecond of an hour, now given that we receive the request at a precise millisecond the dice then become yours. As there are 3600 seconds in an hour and 1000 milliseconds in a second, there makes 3.6 million possible dice rolls you could have. Therefore the chances of the dice being fixed to a particular sequence are to say the least, time consuming at best, as it would require a customized program to make the move every millisecond to compensate for the dice rolls being automatically generated.
That is not also accounting for the factors outside the control of the programmer such as the speed of your machine or your internet connection and location.
Delay the request by even a millisecond and you will have a different dice roll generated, by one millisecond, it will result in a completely different dice roll.
So the odds of you getting a fraudulent roll are 0.
2 doubles in a row: 36 to 1
3 doubles in a row: 216 to 1
4 doubles in a row: 1296 to 1
5 doubles in a row: 7776 to 1
6 doubles in a row: 46,656 to 1
So when considering playing online have no fear or doubt that the dice are genuine, but always check the site that you playing is also – stick with the big boys likewww.play65.com and play safe and well.
