Leave a Review XG Mobile Backgammon
The best
The best I’ve seen. Thankfully they’ve fixed the bugs. One small request: a feature for when you’re on the bar to automatically continue till you hit back in.Rick4now
Great learning tool
I love playing on line. This is the second learning BG app I’ve purchased and the best in way of strategies. The first being Backgammon NJ. There are some awesome players out there and this app may bring you to a level to beat them!my dog Finn
Quite good
After playing with it for a few hours, it seems wildly smarter than the previous app I tried, and likely quite a bit smarter than I am. The hints are very interesting, and it is easy to use.Quacker Oats
Fantastic
Put it on the tutorial and you will improve dramatically. No, the dice aren’t rigged. You will find that making the correct move essentially means that more of the most likely rolls will help you. The dice seem rigged, as if the computer always gets a good roll, because the number of good rolls (of all possible) is higher. Pay attention to the cube to understand why opening moves change. If you’re within one game of winning the tournament, the ideal opening move might not be the Sam as when you’re starting out at 0 games each. The AI is phenomenal and makes me believe that neural network programming will some day solve all our problems or enslave humankind. I tip my hat to the developers and recall paying 10x this price for a version of Snowie back in the day. It’s humbling, but it’s a great way to learn.Show lessPrince of Darkness666
Needs explanation
This is a good and powerful program, but it is very difficult to figure out. The developer should do some training videos to help us. I have since learned that Phil Simborg has an explanatory video. It's worth it to buy it if, like me, you had trouble.
No, it is constantly crashing.
Update: this is good to work on your game, but not good if you really want to play to win because you never get lucky. Other sites are better if you want to play.Show lessRfirring
Needs updating
Excellent play and analysis. Two bugs so far: First, if you’re doing an unlimited session and unpin the toolbar I couldn’t re-pin the bar without deleting and reinstalling the app. Second, if you’re going through help screens it won’t page through the sections. You have to backtrack to the menu and pick another section. It hasn’t been updated for a year, so I’m worried about long term use. HOWEVER, it was worth the purchase for me. I’m learning a lot and I’m glad I bought it so I only took off one star. Update it and it’s a six star app.Show lessPhilo Vance
Love tutor mode
This is a great way to learn backgammon and it’s improved my play a lot. I love the options at the end for Doubling and resigning, and I’ve only seen one bug after playing quite a bit. (Screen freeze)
I got in a weird situation with that bug though. I tried a lot of things to get out of the frozen screen and eventually tried to upgrade to premium just to get rid of it. My credit card is now charged for the premium version but even when I read download the game it’s still wants me to pay for it again. Other than that I really like this version of the game.Show lessConchster
The Best Backgammon Bot and Includes Two Player Setting
This is the best automated backgammon app I have found, and with the premium version, you are also able to use it as a board and play against another player in-person on the same device.
The computer opponent difficulty-setting is based on gameplay, not on optimizing dice rolls in favor of the computer. This makes for more-realistic games, better learning, and less frustration, as it’s the play that determines the outcome rather than a fluke roll.
The tutor on this app is great as well because it shows not just the top move, but also other viable moves and their statistical potential for winning and winning gammons and backgammons. I do wish on occasion that there were an option to click for a bit of explanation as to why one move is statistically more advantageous than another, but that is a small quibble for an otherwise excellent game, and one does pick up on things the more one plays.
The interface for this game is excellent. It is smooth and natural to play, without clunky extra buttons to click and without moving automatically or penalizing you for a typo (very handy if you’re playing on a small screen or get jostled and accidentally tap the wrong point or piece). In addition, there are several settings to tweak speed, layout, movement, and available-move options to your liking.
I highly recommend this app, and it is the one I recommend whenever friends ask for a good app to play and to learn backgammon.Show lessWN
Beginners may have a hard time understanding hints
I enjoy this game. Sometimes I don’t understand what my errors are, though, and the program doesn’t explain why the other choice is better. That probably makes me look dumb, but I guess I just wish for a little more handholding or maybe a tutorial on how best to use XG mobile. I’ll use it as my primary game, though.Show lessGirya411
You can become world class
You can learn how to play world class backgammon just by playing against this app.
When I started playing this app my average score was over 20, which is rated as beginner level.
Now I play at expert level. My average is approaching world class level. I already play a lot of world class level matches now. I even play a surprising number of games that are rated at world champion level. I still have some error-filled games that lower my average, but I don't make many bad moves that are considered blunders.
I still lose most of the time when I play games at world class level. It’s not me claiming that skill level. It’s the app rating my games at that level.
It can get to be maddening, which is likely part of the reason why people insist that the app cheats. Another reason for the claims of cheating is that certain things seem suspicious.
In end-game situations when I have an 11 out of 36 chance to hit what I need to win, I can miss on 20 of those situations in a row. I’ve kept track. The computer never seems to go on those long stretches of missing, but I haven’t tracked that stat.
My actual belief, when calm, is that the app probably doesn’t cheat, but it definitely seems to. My strategy at this point is to keep improving until I play almost every game at a world class or world champ rating. The best thing about this app is that it can actually be used to accomplish that goal.Show lessMoment65
