There are a lot of myths around the popular and antique backgammon game which can be deceitful for those who are starting to play this table game. Here those myths are commented in detail and five main backgammon myths are revealed.

Chance is important in backgammon

It is true that chance has certain influence in the backgammon game and, sometimes, a lot of influence in the short term. However, backgammon is essentially a probabilities game and, in the long term, the better probabilities are played the more will be won. The best way of winning is forgetting about luck. Players don’t have to think about the opponent good moves or their own bad moves because it doesn’t allow focusing in what can be controlled like backgammon chips.

There is more than one correct move

It is true that, occasionally, there are a lot of similar moves, but most of the times there is a move which is better than the others. If when playing backgammon, players think that there are several moves than can be done and that all of them are good, they haven’t learned to play backgammon correctly. All games have a move which means to be the best one, and generally that move is several percentage points better than the other ones.

Computer backgammon games aren’t reliable

It is true that some backgammon software doesn’t work correctly and some positions are misunderstood. However, computer backgammon games are very good and more precise than most of backgammon players in the world.

Dices in online backgammon are manipulated

Many people think that in online backgammon many doubles in dices are rolled or dices show the exact thing players don’t need in that moment. Well, those people are wrong. When virtual backgammon is played, the result of each roll of the dices is random; the kind of software that decides which dice number to roll hasn’t been invented yet.

If we play and practice a lot we can be great backgammon players

It is true that experience in the game is essential to improve it, but we won’t be great players if we don’t study the game away from the board. There are backgammon books and articles which have information that we would never be able to guess by ourselves. Great players have to learn about strategies and theories of the game with a teacher or in books.