Gammonline - Backgammon Resource

Welcome to GammOnLine, your online backgammon magazine and community

GammOnLine is a free online backgammon center and magazine, which was established by the backgammon expert Kit Woolsey in 1999. GammOnLine was founded GammOnLine gives some good advices, tips and conceptual ideas about backgammon. It provides a great variety of information which will help all users to play backgammon including beginners, intermediates and advanced players.

GammOnLine includes:

• Backgammon Matches - hundreds of fully annotated backgammon matches
• Backgammon Quizes and Solutions - set of difficult problems, analyzed by a panel of backgammon experts.
• Backgammon Articles - more than 100 articles contributed by Kit Woolsey and other top backgammon experts.
• Snowie vs. GNU Project - 626 positions in internet backgammon analyzed by bots
• Backgammon Message Board - hundreds of discussions about backgammon
• Backgammon Links - a list of the best backgammon rooms and backgammon resources on the net
• Backgammon News - news and updates from the world of professional backgammon

More on Backgammon:

• Backgammon is a game for two players. Yet, in some variations, most known one is chouette, backgammon can be played by three players or more. The origin of the term "chouette" (pronounced shoo-et) is French for owl, the predatory bird that rips its enemies.


• Backgammon is considered a skill game, belonging to the same family of board games as checkers, chess, go and scrabble. Backgammon skill quality, in contrast with its chance aspect, has been discussed in court several times, most famously in 1981 by an Oregon judge, ruling that backgammon is a game of skill.


• Today's backgammon boards are usually made of wood, leather or plastic, as the rest of backgammon equipment (checkers, dice and dice cups). Plus, there are designer's backgammon board made of glass, diamonds and spare parts of Formula 1 racing car.


• The first back gammon board, found in an archeological site in today's Iran was made of ebony wood with checkers made of precious stones. Illustrations of backgammon boards of medieval manuscripts show that the backgammon board's design – the division to four quadrants and 24 long, narrow, alternating in color triangles – has not changed since then.

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