Resources – Backgammon101

In addition to BG101, there are several other tools, apps, and websites that can help you improve your gameplay.

Ankigammon — A free app to turn your blunders into flash cards. You can provide it with position IDs (such as XGIDs) or match files, and it will automatically generate Anki flashcards. These cards can then be uploaded to your Anki account directly from the app.
Flashback — A flashcard webapp that comes pre-loaded with high-quality decks, including the match equity table, openings at different scores, opening replies, and all the positions from different books such as Backgammon Bootcamp and the Backgammon Encyclopedia.
XG2Anki — A paid service to convert XGIDs into Anki flashcards. They also sell many high quality prepared decks.
XGID2anki — A command-line-based alternative to Ankigammon.
blunderDB — A database for aggregating and categorizing blunders.

BGquiz.com — A website with many quizzes to help you practice specific backgammon skills. For example, there are complete quizzes for nearly all of the opening replies or last roll cube decisions.
BGtrain.com — A position database with positions to help you practice.
Backgammon Trainer — A small app that I built to help you practice a few technical skills, such as pip counting and iSight counting.
Opengammon — Opengammon is an online gaming site first, but it uses real blunders from live gameplay to generate puzzles. Users are also encouraged to write comments explaining the correct moves in the quizzes. There are also quizzes for pip counting and other puzzle formats.

Backgammon Galore — BKGM is an excellent website with tons of great articles. This includes a glossary and links to classic articles on strategy, cube handling, and pip counting, among many other topics.
New England Backgammon Club — This is a site for organizing the club local to the Boston area; however, it hosts loads of helpful resources on the history of the game, reviews of books and equipment, and methods for improvement.
GammonLife — A classic backgammon website with many articles by great writers such as Walter Trice, Mary Hickey and Phil Simborg.
GammonLinks — An exhaustive list of backgammon links of every kind, curated by Chicago Point backgammon.
Insights with Isight — The original article describing the iSight method.
Opening replies — We have released a table that summarizes the detailed eXtreme Gammon opening book. The link also directs readers to a handful of documents with methods to memorize this table.
Match equity tables — A definitive article listing all of the different match equity tables and mnemonics to memorize them over the years.

kifu.me — An automated match transcription service.
Gammonsnap — An app that uses machine vision to generate analysis from photographs of positions.

Grant’s Puzzles — A weekly position quiz with expert analysis. You can sign up for the mailing list and receive these in your inbox to keep your senses sharp!
Bill Robertie’s Problem of the Week — A famous series position problems with analysis by one of the all-time great backgammon players and writers.
Backgammon is Beautiful — A youtube series with over 100 beginner-intermediate level lessons on backgammon checker play and cube play.
Backgammon Skill Set — A youtube channel with lessons for different methods and math tricks to get a small leg up on your opponent.
Over the board podcast — The premiere backgammon podcast, which interviews the most prominent members of the backgammon community.