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Where do *you* play BG online? - Updated Version
Posted By: Stick In Response To: Where do *you* play BG online? (leobueno)
Date: Friday, 12 December 2025, at 3:57 a.m.
So one of the fantastic things about BGO is you could go to the search, stick in show from the past 18 years, and search for a keyword like *FIBS or *Gridgammon and you'll likely stumble on a post that has covered this before. You can check the links there and see which ones still work. It's also always good to ask a question like this again after some time has passed so we'll get an updated version.
For the past ... quite a while, I haven't played anywhere. I'm content playing XG on my phone, iPad, or computer. When I did play I'd play at:
- DailyGammon I played a fair bit here. It's excellent for turn based backgammon. You fire up a bunch of matches and play whenever you have the time to make a couple clicks. Varying match lengths, even Nackgammon. You can also play/challenge people separately.
- Backgammon Galaxy I played early on when the site was starting. I believe I played directly in browser at the time and honestly, I don't even know how to log in with my ID at this point.
- Heroes (Backgammon Studio) I have played here maybe once once upon a time. I logged in just now and had no problems getting in. I know a lot of people use it but I can't speak to its usefulness or functionality too much. I played a match just now against one of the computers and it seems fine. I wish I could click anywhere above the checkers on the point to move them. Exporting and analyzing the match after was easy as sin. There are a lot of features available for studying and a premium membership available for certain features. Again, I don't use it so idk how it is but I've heard it's good.
- SafeHarborGames I used to click around here once upon a time. I believe Mary Hickey got me there for some competition. By appearance it seems there are still people playing there. I can't open any of the rooms. It's blocked for some reason and I don't have the patience right now to figure out why.
- Gammonsite It still exists. It still works. Almost nobody is there. (except the XG bots) This was Xavier's site, creator of XG, who sold XG a while ago. It runs XG meaning the playing board etc...is excellent. It used to be mainly a membership site but I imagine it has lost its audience from the way it looks. I logged in and played a freebie against XG. On the surface everything still works fine.
- Greedygammon I know next to nothing about this platform except that the admin still seems to be active as he posts on his own built in forums about software updates. An announcement was released here on BGO, New Online BG Server in 2013.
- FIBS Also known as the First Internet Backgammon Server. I haven't been on FIBS in a long time. I hope it's still raging. There's a lot to go through to get it installed again and I don't have the time right now to check it out. Someone tell me if you know.
- OpenGammon Seems to have a decent amount of recreational activity. There's also a Discord for this site that is active daily.
- Gridgammon Used to love this place, the interface. Real high end players would show up and play often. You could watch. There would be real high stakes money games going on sometimes. Some lower stakes games too, though they didn't always pay. I logged in just now at 10:30 EST on a Thursday so a little late and there are about 20 people logged in, highest rating ignoring myself is 1870. There used to be some real bangers playing matches. If you know the players handle you can still look up their profile.
It was always hard to get an account on GG as you had to get referred by someone. I really wish someone (USBGF?!) would have purchased Gridgammon and made it their own free monitored server. I know there were talks and I forget why it didn't happen, money issues probably. There needs to be a central hub for backgammon players that's free, well run, and monitored...but that's a story for another day. Hasn't happened in 20 years probably won't in the next 20.
I"m out of gas. Hope that's a good start.
Stick
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