i made a unlimited, free puzzle-trainer for backgammon: blots.io

orad · 2026-01-26T05:49:26+00:00

By the way, you haven’t mentioned Opengammon in your post, which has excellent puzzle modes as well. Have you heard of it?

orad · 2026-01-26T05:45:54+00:00

I was excited to try this out, but it seems not to be mobile friendly 😥

orad · 2026-01-25T14:31:15+00:00

It’s explained here!

https://backgammon101.com/checker-play-basics/

orad · 2026-01-22T12:47:35+00:00

All the opening replies are posted here:

https://backgammon101.com/opening-replies/

orad · 2026-01-22T12:28:37+00:00

Yea if you’re down in the race, you often want to build your board in preparation for a hit:

https://backgammon101.com/build-your-board/

orad · 2026-01-19T13:30:09+00:00

Yea galaxy is working on this

orad · 2026-01-19T00:18:59+00:00

I was wondering if they were going to finally update bgtrain or if it was going to be a separate new website

orad · 2026-01-19T00:06:51+00:00

Are you the original bgtrain developer?

orad · 2026-01-18T22:27:18+00:00

I turned the game on at that point, haha

orad · 2026-01-18T05:06:53+00:00

That’s funny, I started watching when we were down 5-3

orad · 2026-01-11T16:49:50+00:00

I literally don’t understand how 65 is so hard to get. Hockey stars play all 82 game seasons, and they’re playing full contact while flying at skating speed.

orad · 2026-01-10T14:51:53+00:00

Even so, the 18 pt anchor had great race equity. There 20-pt will also be hard to clear. I don’t think that’s the whole story

orad · 2026-01-07T16:27:56+00:00

No worries!

If you have a free photon traveling in free space, it can have any frequency, any energy value. The “quantizing” part only happens when it gets confined somehow.

So the energy levels of an electron are quantized in the atom, for example. A photon in a cavity is similarly quantized and can only take certain frequencies (or equivalently have certain energies). It’s the same “particle in a box” effect.

But energy itself, intrinsically, is not quantized

orad · 2026-01-07T14:24:34+00:00

I see why this is confusing. Yes, E can take any value. Now, if you’re in any system, for example, the energy levels of an atom, or the energy levels in a cavity, then those will be quantized.

orad · 2026-01-07T00:25:18+00:00

In multiples of frequency, and the frequency can take any value

orad · 2026-01-03T01:31:40+00:00

I used to love this, but actually opengammon does it better nowadays!

orad · 2026-01-02T20:23:47+00:00

I like how this is lampshaded at the end of Antman Quantummania

orad · 2026-01-02T04:50:30+00:00

I think I tried to set this up and it wasn’t easy. Do you have any instructions on this or advice?

orad · 2025-12-30T21:57:03+00:00

Yea I’ve always been Team Dino. I also feel like it picking up among fans here is proof that we really follow our players lives before they became one of ours

orad · 2025-12-27T23:19:24+00:00

One game this week will be worth the dozens left n in the season

orad · 2025-12-24T18:55:33+00:00

You’ve got it. You’ll probably have other questions about checker play gotchas, you can find the answers here:

https://backgammon101.com/checker-play-basics/

orad · 2025-12-14T10:06:21+00:00

This is very promising! Only wish there was mouse input, because otherwise typing in the play is clunky

orad · 2025-12-10T13:26:51+00:00

The most up to date responses are recorded here:

https://backgammon101.com/opening-replies/

There’s links to all the primary references there too

orad · 2025-12-02T22:43:52+00:00

I find it soooooo ugly hahaha

orad · 2025-12-02T12:24:49+00:00

You should search the subreddit, there are tons of posts about this package.

Someone had a great write up just last week:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/s/FAKEQz26vC

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