Is there a stop to Internet Backgammon cheaters?

Here is another way the cowards play. They open the game insisting on double or nothing. 

We all know they are using cheat-ware and there is no way you can win, so when you resign or leave the game they score a game with out ever playing one.

This is so funny because who gives a hoot. No one is making money or loosing it, it's a game for fun and skill, but that is they way choose to win. Pathetic.

I wonder what their lives are like? On second thought I don't.

Why Microsoft  can't do anything about this is puzzling.

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!

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MCP

The world is full of sad little people, if they do not get the dice roll they want then they just quit. I hate to think what they are like in life itself. Do they cry if they don't get it all their own way. I have been beaten 5-0 many times but still keep playing (unless of course blatant cheating is occuring). The game is for fun not for a new car or words to that effect. Maybe microsoft can organise a site where you log in and if you cheat or spit the dummy then you should be banned for a time so that REAL people can enjoy the battle of wits and bottle ( will you leave a button on it's own )

well, besides that, I've been called a "cheater" and being insulted a few times, just because i was winning (of course), and I can assure you I've never cheated, just playing the dice I was sent. for now, I would just resign with this people and give them points. (some would stall, of course) and I don't know how they do but they have you disconnected... could be just a bug, but still.

but I would also agree with R Shackle: I'm sure dice don't allways roll at random (if they do, sometimes, well, I guess...  what is msn criteria ? don't ask me!...

gl anyway

I agree, I have lived with those who pause the game to get the double or get the perfect roll, I've tried to calculate the posibilities of getting the perfect roll in the worst situation and it's more than 1,000 to 1. C'mon, for those who play real BG in a real board know that MS is not real and not even close to reality of random. It's frustrating than a player can get 5 doubles in a row, that's almost impossible in real life, fix the game !!!

You are right for you interpretation of what I said.  But you misunderstood.  I said that the probability of a come out roll of a six OR equal come out rolls is 33%

1. Rolling a single six with one die (the come out roll)  = 1/6
2. Both your come out roll and you opponent's come out roll are equal = 1/6 (you agreed in your second paragraph)

Therefore 1 OR 2 is 1/6 + 1/6 = 1/3  (you add probabilities if the are OR'ed.  (You multiply them if they are ANDed)

I counted both situations (1 and 2 above) and got 242 out of 344 games starts.

Yeah, I also noticed many players moving a pip back and forth to waste time.