How many games to a backgammon match?
Considering that a gammon is worth double, in games, and that a backgammon is worth triple, in games, and including the use of a doubling cube: I have always played that a backgammon match is played to 15 games. This is a good question, because I do not readily see any online reference to a backgammon match being played to a specific number of games. So it seems that backgammon matches might be played to any predetermined number of games. Source(s): Backgammon – Wikipedia http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Backgammon As the playing time for each individual game is short, it is often played in matches, where victory is awarded to the first player to reach a certain number of points. If one player has not borne off any checkers by the time that player’s opponent has borne off all fifteen, then the player has lost a gammon, which counts for double a normal loss. If the losing player has not borne off any checkers and still has
