VRAIREAL  I used to feel the same way as ficheye until I just garbaged the game. Best move I made since I bought the game a few years ago. I can only say to prospective buyers to go ahead and try the demo and find out by yourselves.

No use to argue with Gammonsoft, since he cannot be neutral about the game, he is trying to make some money with it. What do you expect his comments will be. Make your own opinion and try it before buying.  
(Version 5.6.1)

VRAIREAL  M. Byrum wrote : "You are a pretty nasty person. But since I don't determine my obligations by how courteous someone is, here is the password."

Thanks for the passwordM. Byrum, but no need to insult anybody.

M. Byrum wrote : "In my world, when someone calls you a liar, deceiving, a cheat, and insults your hard work(that I take pride in),then tells the world, that is nasty."

I am considered a well manered person by my entourage with no nastiness whatsoever. May I remind you that I am entitled to disagree with you and that you were the first to reply "Contrary, to what the previous reviewer said". If thats not calling me a liar well it sure sounds like it to me. I did not call you names because of that, I just pointed out my disagreement. If you were hurt by my comments to the effect I dont believe you, well its just too bad and I am sorry, but I still believe the rolls are not always random and I have many screen shots of the statistics in support of my point of view.

Oh well, thanks anyway for the password and try not to insult your customers M. Byrum. It is not a very good commercial practice.

Réal Leblanc  
(Version 5.3.4)

VRAIREAL  With all due respect M. Byrum, I disagree with you on both counts. Firstly the dices rolls are NOT always random regardless of your pretentions and secondly you did NOT offer me any solution to my crashed computer two years ago.

By the way my name is Real Leblanc and I live in Montreal, Canada  
(Version 5.3.4)

VRAIREAL  Sorry M. Byrum but it does not suffice to say the dices are random. I have played with your game too many times to believe that statement.

My experience is all to the contrary and other reviewers have mentionned this before. I know it is not to your advantage to admit this, but it seems quite obvious that David's Backgammon is programmed this way in an effort to conceal an inaptitude to beat a good player with a decent programming algorythm.

And yes you did reply to me a couple of years ago giving me the same argument about the random rolls, but at the same time you never offered me a new password for my crashed copy, and that is the truth.

Go ahead and deny it if you want, but I'm sure other players have had a similar experience as mine and I hope others will shy away from this dishonest product.  
(Version 5.3.4)

VRAIREAL  May I offer another point of view.

Its quite obvious this game is programmed to be adictive and what better way than roll the dices in a manner to get the player in a mood where he wants to get even with its opponent, the computer. I would describe the ramdomness of the dice rolls as being convenient, to say the least, in favor of the computer.

But I must say that after a while, the pattern does change in favor of the player and all I can say is that its very addictive indeed. :-)

This said, I only wish the dice rolls where really random.

Unfortunatly, I have purchased this game a couple of years ago and my computer crahed. My password became obsolete. I have writen M. Byrum about that, but he has never offered me a solution to this problem. Will never purchase anything else from him.  
(Version 5.3.4)

VRAIREAL  I agree with the gentleman who says that this game does not always rolls dices in a random manner. I have played thousands of games with this product and found out that it does favor the computer opponent most of the time.

I have writen to M. Byrum about this and I do not believe that he is saying the whole truth when he says the rolls are random. Very often I get blocked from the bar with one or two spaces, blocked while the computer gets off the bar almost everytime, even with five spaces blocked. Its amazing how badly I roll the dices with David's Backgammon. :-)

Secondly, I bought the game a couple of years ago and my computer crashed. My password was not good anymore. I wrote M. Byrum about that and he answered about the randomness of the rolls but never gave me a new password.

I have been playing the demo version since then and will continue to do so because the game is not worth the money.

Version 4,9,5  
(Version 5.3.4)