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Backgammon drills

Posted By: Max Stockslager
Date: Monday, 18 May 2026, at 2:27 p.m.

As a side project I've been building a tool (backgammondrills.com) for "drilling" backgammon skills -- pip counting, shot counting, race formulas, match equity, and other mental calculations that come up over the board. The overall philosophy is that it takes deliberate practice to get from "knowing" a formula (e.g., being able to state the Keith count decision rule) vs. being able to quickly/accurately/confidently apply it over the board under pressure, and the drills here make it easy to get in the reps.

Most posters here are advanced enough players that much of the material will be familiar to you, but you may be interested in the 3v3 and 4v4 checker pages and EPC Explorer if you haven't read Art Benjamin's excellent PrimeTime articles that these are based on. (I have a few more drill pages in the works based on his other EPC rules, but that's further down the road).

Sharing for any initial feedback or additional feature/drill requests -- feel free to reach out by email (or here) and would be happy to discuss.