Backgammon vs Tavli

Play backgammon online against real players, or practice offline against a challenging engine. Learn, improve your game, solve challenging puzzles, and climb the rating ladder. PLAY ONLINE Match with opponents worldwide in real-time rated games. Every win and loss moves your rating, so every move matters. A game clock keeps matches fast and fair, and the doubling cube is there when you want to double what the game is worth. PLAY YOUR FRIENDS Share a private game code, or challenge someone from your friends list and see who's online. Or hand the phone back and forth and play on one board, with no internet needed. Send friends an invite link, see suggestions of people you may know, and get notified when friends challenge you. PLAY THE COMPUTER Practice against the engine at the difficulty you choose, from a gentle warm-up to an opponent that punishes a loose blot. Works fully offline. SEE WHERE YOU WENT WRONG After any game, replay it move by move with the engine's verdict on each one. See your accuracy score, the best play drawn beside the one you made, and how much of the result was the dice rather than the decisions. SOLVE RATED PUZZLES Work through positions taken from real games. Every puzzle has a rating and so do you: solve harder ones and yours climbs. STUDY ANY POSITION Set up a board by hand, pick the dice, and let the engine show you the best play and what the cube is worth. TRACK YOUR PROGRESS Follow your rating over time with charts and statistics: win rate, gammons and backgammons, day streak, and a running tally of every number the dice have given you. Compare yourself against friends, your country, and the global leaderboard. FEATURES - Real-time online multiplayer with ELO rating - Private game codes and direct friend challenges - Invite links, friend suggestions and challenge notifications - Pass and play on one device - Engine opponent with difficulty levels - Post-game analysis with accuracy and luck breakdown - Rated puzzles with your own puzzle rating - Analysis board for studying any position - Doubling cube - Friends, country, and global leaderboards - Dice statistics and day streaks - Roll physical dice and enter what you get - Game clock with time increments - Available in 30 languages - Play the computer with no internet connection

Tavli is portes, plakoto and fevga, the three games of every Greek kafeneio, on a board made like the real thing. Ready for iPhone Duo Close iPhone Duo and it is the box: the outside of a real board, inlaid, with a rosette that catches the light as you move the phone. Tap to play shut, and the whole outer display is the board. Open it and the board fills the inner display from edge to edge, with its middle bar on the fold and two brass hinges, the way a real tavli board opens. Hold it upright and the board runs the full length of the screen. A game carries on as you fold and unfold: the checkers, the dice and whose turn it is stay as they were, and each time you close it, the lid comes back. Three games, played properly Portes is backgammon as Greece plays it. Plakoto pins instead of hitting. Fevga sends both sides the same way round and lets a single checker hold a point. The rules follow bkgm.com, including the mother checker in plakoto, the prime and first checker rules in fevga, and the larger die when only one can be played. Or play tavli itself: portes, plakoto and fevga in turn, first to 5 or 7. There is a guided game for each, played on the board a step at a time, and cards that show how plakoto and fevga are played. A board, not a picture Seven boards in three dimensions: walnut and maple, burr walnut, Carrara marble, black leather in brushed metal, green leather, tan leather and an old kafeneio board. Checkers slide and settle; dice are thrown, and bounce off the walls and each other. On iPad, two fingers can carry two checkers at once. Someone to play Lay the phone or iPad flat between two players: what each needs faces them at their own end, and the screen stays awake while you play. Play the computer at Easy, Medium or Strong: portes against the wildbg neural network, plakoto and fevga against search built for each game. Dice you can check When the app throws the dice, every match's dice are fixed before the first roll. Settings shows the fingerprint of a secret seed; when the match ends, the seed is revealed with every roll it made, so anyone can confirm the dice never changed. Or throw your own dice on the table and type each roll in. For everyone The whole board plays with VoiceOver: every point, the bar and the trays can be read and moved from. Reduce Motion, Increase Contrast and larger text are respected. In English and Greek. Match play Single games, matches to 3, 5 or 7, and the doubling cube in portes if you want it. Tavli scoring: two points for a mars, and no triple games. One price The free game is portes against the computer at Easy, pass-and-play in all three games, and the Classic board. One purchase opens everything else: plakoto and fevga against the computer at every level, the tavli match and matches, the cube and the other six boards, and every board added after this one. Bought once, and shared with your family. No subscriptions, no ads, one price. No account, and no tracking.