Too good to double

How it works in play

When your gammon chances are high and your risk of losing is small, doubling only lets the opponent pass and caps your win at one point. Playing on for the gammon is worth more, and you can still double later if the position turns.

Related terms

• Double — An offer to double the stakes via the doubling cube, made before rolling.
• Cash — To double an opponent out of the game — offering a cube they must correctly pass, banking the current stakes.
• Gammon — Winning before the opponent bears off any checker. Worth 2× the cube value.
• Doubling window — The range of winning chances where doubling is correct and the opponent should still take.
• Jacoby rule — Money play only: gammons and backgammons count single value unless the cube has been turned.

Go deeper

• Cube theory: too good to double
• Backgammon strategy, from first roll to bear-off

In other languages

• العربيةأفضل من أن تضاعف (Too good)
• ΕλληνικάΠολύ καλός για διπλασιασμό (too good)
• فارسیبیش از حد خوب برای داو
• עבריתטוב מכדי להכפיל (Too good to double)
• РусскийСлишком хорош для удвоения (too good)
• TürkçeKatlamak için fazla iyi