Backgammon Masters

This app has changed so much over the last couple of years....for the worse in my opinion. When I first started playing this app, you could chat with any player you chose to play with out of the queue. Then, that feature was removed & you could only chat with established “friends”. This defeated the purpose of making friends. I personally didn’t add a player as a friend until after I’d played & chatted with an individual a few times. But, I continued to play & just chose my matches from the queue based on bet size, name, photo or just random CHOICE. Now.....NO choice is available to me. The game now chooses who I can play, how many times, with or without extended time & I can’t even pick a board design unless I choose the corresponding bet amount. And forget making “friends”! Main chat is the only place to have a conversation. What’s the purpose in that? I’d rather be playing the game & chatting than just posting random comments in a group of players who may or may not speak same language. As soon as I’m out of coin, I’ll be leaving this game. Too bad....at one time this was a fun game....now it’s boring....like playing the computer. I’ll be looking for a new backgammon app....I suggest you do too.

Again dice are not random, my opponents alaways have more doubles

I’ve found if I have a 3 roll lead taking off pieces, I generally lose. 3.5 roll lead and I generally win. Even and you lose 95 percent of the time. You cannot beat the computer’s well timed doubles.

Fast, online has many players. Offline is good to for airplane rides and such. Nice board choices. Hear some complaints from others about dice favoring opponents but that’s the way player may feel when losing and it all goes around in the course of continued play. Developers work hard. They provide methods to check impartial dice roll integrity. Have been playing years now. Coin is reasonable and goes a long way. Much better than most of the other BG games online. Give it a try, I did and got hooked :)

Can’t login any more. I type my login in Info but I see some strange characters.

Thanks for the new update.

This review is an edit. Since I wrote the review below, I’ve lost 103 game out of the last 115. Read below and you’ll probably want to stay away from this app.<br/>Let me start with, the developers will call me racist, I’m not, but Russians did try to wreak havoc on the US during a presidential election. Next they’ll tell you Im a conspiracy theorist...not even close...I have a Phd in Biostatistics and working for 26 years as a Bio-Engineer.<br/>Fact: players have hacked this (app) game a couple times to manipulate the dice (developers admit this happened), this means the developers can also manipulate the dice (and they do it often) which proves my so called “conspiracy theory” is factual! And the developers often do rig the dice against players they don’t like. (Read other reviews).<br/><br/>This is by far and away the most corrupt of the backgammon apps. most poeple don’t write a review unless happy or feel down right ripped off. This app is an absolute (joke) rip off!!! <br/>My games (last 200) have avg’d 22% doubles per game (so not random) If you don’t believe me play their free (practice) games and you’ll see. Unless you’re Russian, You’ll lose. Look at the ELO ratings and play one of the top rated players (all Russian)...They roll doubles like people eat peanuts...by the handfull. I’ve rolled a “1” an avg of 38% of all dice in my games. this is just the tip of the iceberg....The developers made it this way....Cheat, Cheat and Cheat!<br/>I cant wait to read their reply, they’ll come up with “you can check the dice”, “they’re random”, “read our FAQ’s”...ect...Don’t buy their bologne...its rotten and smells just like this backgammon app and the dice stink badly!<br/>It won’t take you long to see what I’m writing here, play the free “practice” games and then delete the app...you’ll be happy you did!

Error starting game after update.