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
    2011-10-18T07:36:54+00:00

    Unfortunately I think it is you who fails the entry requirements for the group 'those with a brain'.   No one is cheating at backgammon and to think they are shows a lack of maturity and a poor understanding of both the game of backgammon and the nature of microprocessors.

     

     

    The device that generates the numbers for the die is unsophisticated and very reliable.  The device that interprets the data (your brain) is very unreliable and tends to operate with a mixture of logic, intuition, emotion and degrees of chemical imbalance.

     

     

    If you think losing to someone who rolls incredible numbers is frustrating just wait until you understand the game really well and try being beaten by someone that thinks it is possible to cheat!

     

     You must think the public is stupid. I have played Backgammon for over 40 years and anyone with a half a brain can tell when the opponent is cheating. You cant just randomly roll 6/2 or 2/2

    or4/2 or doubles exactly when  you need them to pull up the rear..You never get a 5/2 or 4/3 or2/3

    or any odd combination. Your configurations always are the perfect combinations to set blocks or bounce the other guy out. If you get behind the doubles come like crazy "just in time"

    What's the point in playing? Does it make you feel better if you win when you cheated? Are you so stupid at the game you can't play with out your cheater soft ware?

    When I suspect numbers that are just to uniform to long for the other player, or half way through the random combinations seem to go away, I just ditch the game.

    Go play with the computer. It's ridiculous.

    By the way you people with automated programs, it is as obvious as heck, you can tell it in a NY minute.

     

     

     

     

     

     

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-10-14T19:43:47+00:00

    As I type, I have stopped playing against a cheater who is waiting for my role even though he has me completely blocked.....I figure it's payback for the times I have waited for the cheat to move but decided to stop play because I was beating that person.

    I cannot begin to stress the FACT that cheating is not only going on here, but is completely proliferated the internet.

    I personally don't know where they are coming from, but I saw a report on TV that China is behind most of the hacking on the planet.

    The Government of China has acted in every way possible to destroy our nation from every possible facet of life.

    This Government should immediately move to raise tariffs against them, and encourage the corporations that moved there to come home...or face losing their charters here.

    I saw on TV the other day of the GE CEO who stated that the US fears China, but he does not.

    This tells me he is either working with China, or is a complete fool, which there has been a history of being in every society.

    I bet his PC is hacked.

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-10-12T08:47:19+00:00

    Don't ever play backgammon.  stop ruining it for fair players

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  4. Anonymous
    2011-10-12T08:46:29+00:00

    you're a cheater

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