There's something about being called a beginner that makes me just want to smack someone. You can try out Backgammon-Amateurs and you'll see that it isn't any more full of backgammon goodness than this site is. On the other hand, if you like backgammon enough to be searching for it online, then maybe you have a lot of free time on your hands and you'd like to read my ramblings.

I play a lot of backgammon games, and I like to play backgammon. I really like to win backgammon but I don't mind losing if it was an interesting game. If there are a lot of hits and going back and forth, that's pretty cool. By the way, someone proved mathematically that backgammon ends, meaning that a single backgammon game cannot go on forever, which is a good thing, because online backgammon only allows you to play for 20 minutes, which would be hard with an infinite game. Actually, you'd have to do your best to keep your turns as short as possible in the hopes that the other player would lose by running out of time before you do.

Then there are all kinds of people who are like way into knowing all the backgammon champions. And there are bunches of them, people who actually put time and effort into playing backgammon both online and off. Can you imagine? Of course you can. I mean, you're here, aren't you? Hey, there are people who write books about backgammon too. Like Bill Robertie and Paul Magriel. Then again, Thomas Jefferson and Chaucer wrote about backgammon, so I guess the champs are in good company.