Is there a stop to Internet Backgammon cheaters?

Anonymous
2010-04-09T18:01:10+00:00

So I have enjoyed playing Backgammon in the past, but nowadays is just IMPOSSIBLE.  I am sure many others have noticed this.  There are players out there that can control the dice at least for them, and some can even move more chips than the allowed by standard rules.

For example, not 10 minutes ago, I rolled 6 and 5, then the guy doubled me on his first roll, and got double three, then I rolled and I got 4 and 1, then he rolled and got 3 and 1, then I rolled and got 3 and 2, then he rolled and got double 5 eating my lonely chip in position 1 and covering position 3 from position 8.  Do you call that a lucky roll?  I call that an engineered roll, if you know Backgammon.

Yesterday, a guy moved 6 chips using a double 5.  That same guy rolled 4 consecutive pairs.

Yesterday, I had 5 out of 6 positions occupied in my side and I ate one of the other player's chips.  I did this repeatedly.  The guy just lost 1 roll out of 4 chips I ate.  He also had 5 of 6 positions occupied.  He ate a chip of mine twice.  I had to roll some 10 times before I could get out each time.

If you know Backgammon, you know this is NOT right.  Losers out there have found a way to cheat, and that ruins the fun for us, the ones with a brain.

Microsoft, please put an end to this.  Your Windows license is expensive, and I paid for it, and I expect to be able to enjoy all the features in the OS, and that includes the included Internet gaming.  Roll a patch that can end this blatant cheating!


MCP

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Anonymous
2010-04-10T13:55:17+00:00

Hi,

If you have any feedback’s, then I would suggest you to post here:

https://connect.microsoft.com/?wa=wsignin1.0

 Please respond back with the status of the issue and let us know if you have any issues.

 Azam – Microsoft

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  1. Anonymous
    2011-10-22T21:51:27+00:00

    Yes I know this board is about backgammon cheaters. I hate to bring politics into this board but I was responding to a post that insinuated that Dems were cheaters, like the cheaters in this game.

    Now though, I can not let you by with out responding to your arrogant post so you'll just have to deal with it.

    Yes the Gov does provide private sector jobs. When the Gov decides to build a bridge or pave a highway, it is contracted to a private sector company. The only bridges or roads built by the Gov are done by the Army Corps of Engineers, otherwise private sector companies get the work.

    Do you think the Army Corp built all the highways across this country that Eisenhower mandated?

    Who do you think would be rebuilding the thousands of schools in this country that are falling down

    the Army?

    When you provide jobs for millions guess what they earn money, and spend it on the things they need. When they spend it it creates jobs for others. When others have jobs they too spend it. Before you know it manufacturing comes back, after that we have a tax base.

    The Gov has to do something because the trillions of dollars sitting off shore are being held hostage by greedy Cooperation's that don't want to pay their fair share of taxes on the money, so it is being held hostage (a typical Republican ploy for everything Republicans do) to repatriate it tax free. You try doing that with the IRS and see how far you get.

    In order to have commerce you have to have customers. In order to have customers you have to have jobs. When you have both you have an economy.

    Here is the Republican mantra.

    I am a billionaire, but I want everyone to be rich. I have flat lined your wages for since the Reagan years, but I want you to be rich.

    All benefits which have stemmed from of productivity, gains and new wealth, which have stemmed from your 8-12 hour days will accrue to me,.. as has been for the past 30 years, but I want you to be rich.

    My tax rate is half of your tax rate, but I want you to be rich.  I don't want you to collectively bargain

    just because I haven't treated you fairly with out a union, because that would impede my schedule for getting richer,... but I want you to be rich.

    I am taking away your health care and pension, but I want you to be rich, especially in your retirement.

    I am depriving your children of a decent education, and support for their teachers, but I want your family to be rich.

    I am expecting you to bail me out for my financial misdeeds, and I need several trillion from you, but I want you to be rich.

    By the way,.. I am shipping your job to China where some poor sap will do it for 5% of what you want.

    He'll take it because he will only be 200 miles from his kids and family. Don't feel sorry for him, because we supply a bunk shed for him, where he will be with 50 of this other worker friends.

    I believe in God Lord Jesus, and the Bible, except for the rich guy not being able to go through the eye of a needle.

    Our new research dept has designed a way for me to pass through with out mussing a hair.

    The do unto others part was always debatable, the love thy neighbor part? Well Leviticus lets me off the hook if their Gay, and the part that says you cant worship material things? Humm, that really needs a closer look, something could be worked out, I'll just bet you.

    Oh by the way, when can you be out of your house?

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-10-22T06:03:48+00:00

    There must be some cheating going on.

    I played a human and this is what happend:

    He doubled me on the first move.

    He rolled 5 doubles in a row.

    He rolled a 6 and a 5.

    He rolled a double.

    He continued to roll doubles the entire game.

    The next game he rolled 3 doubles in a row,  2 good rolls and 2 doubles in a row.

    That's not luck!

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-10-22T05:08:51+00:00

    Oh Johnny, no, I'm talking about the rabid, hateful and misdirecting democrats, like you.  This board is about backgammon cheaters, not politics.  And I think you meant to say "over throw". (also need to review  there, their, & they're)

    FYI - The government does not create private sector jobs and anyone who promises that is misinformed.  It is not the function of government to give you a job, or a house or a plasma TV.   Enterprise creates jobs: public & private corporations and mom & pop operations.  Everyone of us creates jobs by purchasing products made in the USA, otherwise you are creating another job for a Chinese person, and eliminating a job for an American.  Get it?  It is the consumer who creates the job.  Every dollar you spend trickles up and down to someone else.  It is the PEOPLE who create the economy.  Choose wisely.

    It is very obvious to many of us that the last two Democratic presidents were extremely well-versed in subliminal persuasion to get weak minded people to vote for them.  Why else would you vote for someone with such limited political experience to lead your country? 

    I believe the cramming down the throat action was done by the Democratic congress.  Just saying.

    You need to do some deep breathing and soul searching, assuming you believe you have one, and try to let go of all the hate and anger you are putting out.   Quiet your mind; relax your muscles; unclench your heart...

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  4. Anonymous
    2011-10-22T04:33:54+00:00

    I have a new policy starting tonight.  My opponent has been throwing a lot of doubles.  We were at the end of the game and what do you know- I was winning.  Then I had to split.  He disappeared for about four minutes, nudged him, and he came back and threw the five he needed to knock me off.  My new policy- though I do not like to quit a game it is of little consequence to me to post a loss.  In the future I will immediately quit a cheater.  I knew this guy was cheating but I continued to play him as it is challenging to try to thwart their efforts.  From now on I will immediately quit the cheater.  Let him cheat the computer.

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