Online Backgammon Cheats
The most common online backgammon cheats are:
Disconnection (dropping, in backgammon language), in which a player disconnects right before the online backgammon game or match was about to be decided in favor of his opponent, so he won't be losing the agreed stake and/or rating points.
Rating points sharking, in which a skilled player loses intentionally to deduct rating points to look as if he belongs to a much lower skill level than he actually is, and then plays for money against people of his pseudo skill level.
Use of backgammon bots such as Snowie and GNUBG, in which the a player lets the highly trained neural based program to play against his human opponent
Online backgammon cheaters – how to detect?
When a player disconnects just when you start planning your triumph party, and without expressing any intention to reconnect during the next five minutes or so, you've probably ran into a dropper. On the other hand, disconnections do occur on occasions, so maybe your judgments are too hasty?
In any case, the best thing you can do is inform the support representative of the backgammon site. if it is not the first time that certain user had an emergency case of an electrical power interruption close to the ending of a game, the guy can be penalized with loss of rating point and the payment of the current stake and even be banned.
Since backgammon does have an element of luck, it is much more difficult to detect players who consult with their favorite backgammon bot or play around with their rating points on lower skilled players' expense. Playing backgammon online enables you to meet lots of new people, but you can never tell if those people are really such good backgammon players or they let Snowie do the dirty work for them.
Still, paying attention to details such as the quickness of the suspect's response (bots are slower in general), the availability of the player (humans tend to take break from playing online once in a while) and the correlation between the error rate and the amount of time spent online (you can't play 24/7 and still maintain an error rate close to zero).
Again, if you suspect that a player plays too good to be real, it is advisable to contact the support. Large, organized backgammon sites such as Play65 and alike have the tools to detect these suspicions and if approved, to prevent them from playing and opening new accounts.
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