Backgammon Online GC - desktop app for Windows 10 and Windows 8+

Backgammon Online GC is an app that can be installed on any Windows PC or tablet supporting Microsoft Windows 8 or higher version of Microsoft Windows. Backgammon Online GC is available from Microsoft Windows Store.

With Backgammon Online GC you can Play backgammon and chat with real people, improve your skills and your rating and make new friends! The game features an attractive and easy-to-use backgammon board and it allows to play quite fast. You can chat, compete and play internet backgammon games or matches or tournaments.

A scrollable game room typically shows up active players and their tables like in the picture below.



In the top-left corner of the game room, you can see your player account and your invitations. In the top right corner, you can see the scrollable game room chat. The main part of the game room screen shows players and their games. Open tables show 'Play' button. You can play, chat, watch other people play, select invitations, etc.

The 'Menu' button is located in the very top left corner of the screen.
Selecting a 'Menu' brings up a screen with actions that can be performed depending on the context. For example, if you are at a table watching a game, you can use the Menu to get out. You can use the 'Menu' in the game room to Create table, Exit a room, Look-up and change your player account information, etc.

When you are playing or watching a game, a typical backgammon table looks like a picture below


This is a view of a backgammon game in progress. The player in the bottom plays black has a 6:3 move and can hit a lone checker on #10.
The chat, the menu etc. are to the right of the backgammon board

Checker Movement

By default, your checkers move counterclockwise around the board - see red arrow below.



There are two ways to move checkers:

• Move by dragging checkers from source to destination
  You can 'grab' and move a checker from its source pip to its destination. While moving the checker, the green highlights show possible destination pips.
• Fast move by touch
  Suppose you have a 6:2 roll of the dice. If you touch a checker that can jump both 6 and 2 positions, the first touch would make it jump 6 positions first. The second touch would make it jump 2 positions.

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