Match equity

How it works in play

Your match equity is your chance of winning the match from the current score: 50% at 0-0, more for the leader. Cube and checker decisions in a match aim to raise it, so the same position can be a take at one score and a pass at another.

Related terms

• MET — Match equity table — the standard reference grid of match-winning chances by score.
• EMG — "Equivalent to money game" — the normalized unit for expressing match-play equity.
• Crawford rule — Universal in match play: when a player first reaches one point from victory, the next game is played without the doubling cube.
• DMP — "Double match point": both players one point from winning the match.

Go deeper

• Cube theory: match equity and the score
• Backgammon strategy, from first roll to bear-off

In other languages

• العربيةأفضلية المباراة (Match equity)
• ΕλληνικάMatch equity
• فارسیاکوییتی مسابقه
• עבריתאקוויטי מאטש (Match equity)
• РусскийМатчевое эквити (match equity)
• TürkçeMaç equity’si