Comparison

Backgammon Sage Pro vs ChessDoku

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Backgammon Sage Pro

This app acts as a personal backgammon coach, offering analysis, practice, and progress tracking. It features a powerful AI engine, board position analysis, and game review to help players of all levels improve their skills.

Highlights
  • AI-powered backgammon engine
  • Position analysis with AI justification
  • Import board positions from photos
  • Play against adjustable bot strength
  • Analyze recorded games and matches
  • Track progress with performance metrics
  • Drill weaknesses with custom quizzes
Features
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Backgammon Sage Pro is your personal backgammon coach, powered by the strongest backgammon engine on the market today. Play, analyze, and improve, calculating in the cloud so you get the strongest evaluations even when you're on the move. Whether you're learning your first prime or sharpening a tournament game, Sage shows you the best play, explains why, and tracks your progress over time. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Analyze a position: Quickly set up a checker play or cube action position and analyze it at your choice of strength, with AI justification of the best decision. • Import from a photo: Photograph a real board and the position opens in Sage, ready to check and analyze. • Play a world-class bot: unlimited and match games at adjustable strength, with live performance feedback and post-game analysis. • Analyze your games and matches: Every game you play, against Sage or friends, is recorded and analyzed. See where you went wrong and why. • Track your game: See Performance Rating (PR), error themes, and progress across multiple player profiles. • Drill your weaknesses: Quiz yourself on the exact positions where you went wrong, zeroing in on parts of the game where you need work. • Train your pip count: Race the clock counting pips, then take on the global leaderboard. • Plain-English insight: Sage AI explains the ideas behind each position, with backgammon strategy and tactics instead of equities and probabilities. • Import your history: Bring in XG and online match files to build a complete database of your play. POWERED BY A WORLD-CLASS ENGINE Backgammon Sage Pro is powered by the open source backgammon engine, Open Sage. Open Sage is a modern standard for backgammon engines, demonstrated to outperform other commercial engines at similar evaluation strength. You can find more information on Open Sage at its github page: https://github.com/markbgsage/bgsage. FOR EVERY LEVEL New players get clear, expert guidance. Advanced players get the depth: expanded dice distribution, cloud rollouts, modern market window information for cube decisions, and the precision serious study demands. This is a strategy and analysis tool. No gambling is involved. SUBSCRIPTION Backgammon Sage Pro offers full access through a monthly or annual auto-renewing subscription. Pricing is shown in the app before you confirm. • Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. • Your subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://sage.bgsage.ai/terms Privacy Policy: https://sage.bgsage.ai/privacy

About

ChessDoku

Features
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ChessDoku is a logic puzzle game that combines Sudoku-style deduction with the rules of chess. Use the clues to work out where each chess piece belongs on the board. Pieces cannot be repeated where the puzzle rules do not allow it, and their movements and captures can also be part of the solution. Some puzzles are simple and can be solved in a few steps. Others require you to combine several clues, rule out possible positions and think carefully before placing each piece. The game starts with small 3x3 boards and gradually introduces larger and more difficult puzzles, up to 6x6 boards. You don't need to be an expert chess player. The game uses familiar chess pieces and their basic movement and capture rules, while the puzzles are solved through logic and deduction. Features: - 310 logic puzzles - Boards from 3x3 to 6x6 - Increasing difficulty - Spatial, positional and chess-based clues - Hint system for difficult puzzles - Rush mode for quick timed games - Local records and online ranking Read the clues, place the pieces and find the solution.

Screenshots

Backgammon Sage Pro4 screens
ChessDoku4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ChessDoku at none against Backgammon Sage Pro's 2. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Backgammon Sage Pro sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. ChessDoku asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Backgammon Sage Pro versus ChessDoku: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBackgammon Sage ProChessDoku
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (10 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscription—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB132 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBackgammon Gaming Technologies LLCPESCAPPS GAMES SL

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Backgammon Sage Pro

Subscriptions2
  • BG Sage Pro - Monthly$8.991 Month
  • BG Sage Pro - Annual$89.991 Year
None

ChessDoku

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Backgammon Sage Pro free?
Backgammon Sage Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ChessDoku free?
ChessDoku is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Backgammon Sage Pro or ChessDoku have ads?
Neither Backgammon Sage Pro nor ChessDoku shows ads.

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