| | |  | Last Updated: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 |  | | | Backgammon Joins the Online Gambling World
- Friday, 28 Apr 2006
Backgammon has been a popular game for centuries, being played all over the world in pretty much the same way it is played today at online gambling sites. But for those of you who believe that backgammon is strickly a game of luck, it's time to think again. When playing backgammon at home or an online gambling site, a player must think of his next move and how it will affect the end result of the game. Very similar to the way chess is played in terms of analysis, backgammon is considered by some to be one of the most complicated game at online gambling sites.
A supervised experiment of backgammon tournament was conducted by Play65.
The experiment's aim was to provide empiric datum for quantities basis to discuss the question: "Does a backgammon player at online gambling sites with ability and experience have a significant advantage over a player with absent experience and/or weak ability." One of the participants in the research, replied when asked if he thinks Backgammon is only luck: "I think Backgammon is just like soccer, you have to adjust and change your strategy depending on each throw of your dice and your opponent's moves, not everything is under your control, just like a soccer team who has to defense against an offence of the opponent's team."
The experiment was supervised by a professor from the statistics department of Bar-Ilan University, Israel. 16 players participated in the experiment: 5 were top level (information taken from Play65 site), 2 intermediate and 9 with weak abilities. Results: 3 out of the 4 finalists were top level and in the finals both players were high level. The conclusion of the experiement proved that as soon as a player stabilizes himself as a strong player, it is possible to predict with very high probability his repeating winnings over a player who stabilized himself as a weak player. Thus, next time you decide to have a game of backgammon at an online gambling site, be sure that you know how to play the game well! | |
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