🎲 BEYOND THE BOARD – BACKGAMMON MOT™

Personalised Performance Report | Four Games Analysed & Annotated | £25

🏆 Discover your strengths. Identify your Areas of Improvement. Break through your backgammon glass ceiling!

Have you reached a stage in your backgammon where, despite playing regularly and studying the game, your progress seems to have stalled?

Perhaps you repeatedly encounter the same difficulties with cube decisions, miss attacking opportunities, struggle with timing or find yourself uncertain about the correct strategic plan.

My Backgammon MOT™ Performance Report is designed to help you understand not simply which moves you get wrong, but why you make those decisions and how you can improve your thinking.

For just £25, submit four of your own backgammon games and receive a personalised digital report combining expert analysis, full-colour board diagrams, graphical performance data and practical coaching advice.

This is much more than an automated analysis of your games. It is an opportunity to examine your backgammon through the eyes of a Master player.

🔵 WHAT WILL YOU RECEIVE?

🎲 1. Four Games Professionally Analysed

Your four submitted games will be examined using eXtreme Gammon (XG), with important decisions selected for detailed annotation.

Rather than simply presenting computer-generated moves and equity figures, I explain the strategic reasoning behind the preferred decisions, helping you understand what a stronger player sees and considers.

🎲 2. Annotated Positions with Full-Colour Diagrams

Your report includes selected positions illustrated with colour backgammon boards, comparisons between your decisions and the preferred plays, relevant equity differences and clear explanations of the underlying strategic principles.

These annotations are designed to help you recognise similar situations in future games.

🎲 3. Graphical Performance Analysis

One of the distinctive features of the Backgammon MOT™ is its visual approach to understanding your game.

Where the available evidence permits, colourful pie charts and performance graphics illustrate the distribution of your errors across different areas, including:

• Cube decisions and missed doubling opportunities
• Checker-play errors and strategic weaknesses
• Attacking opportunities and defensive decisions
• Timing, priming, racing and other positional themes

These visual summaries make it easier to recognise where your most important learning opportunities lie.

🎲 4. Your Personalised Backgammon MOT™ Player Profile

My wider coaching programme divides backgammon into 25 distinct teachable areas, providing a structured framework for examining a player's technical strengths and weaknesses.

Your four-game assessment will identify the areas demonstrated by your submitted games, which may include:

🔵 Opening intelligence and early blitz play

🟠 Strategic middlegame planning

🟡 Holding games and one-man-back positions

🟢 Prime construction and prime-versus-prime play

🔴 Racing, bear-in and bear-off technique

🟣 Backgames, crunch positions and defensive play

🔵 Doubling, redoubling and cube handling

🟠 Match-score awareness and gammon considerations

Where sufficient evidence exists, your profile will include visual ratings and observations to help you understand your developing playing style.

🎲 5. Your Personalised Areas of Improvement

Rather than concentrating on mistakes in isolation, I look for recurring patterns.

Are you playing too cautiously when the position demands aggression? Are you missing important cube opportunities? Are you making attractive moves without examining stronger alternatives?

The aim is to identify the underlying strategic and decision-making habits that may be costing you equity.

I deliberately call these your Areas of Improvement, because every identified weakness presents an opportunity to become a stronger player.

🎲 6. The Psychology of Decision-Making

My approach draws upon my background in psychology as well as my experience in competitive backgammon.

Where your decisions provide evidence of recurring tendencies, I explore issues such as excessive caution, risk assessment, overconfidence, autopilot thinking and the influence of match scores.

Understanding the reasoning behind a decision is often the first step towards making a better one.

🎲 7. Your Personalised Roadmap Going Forwards

Your report concludes with a practical development plan identifying the most important areas to concentrate on.

Rather than attempting to improve everything simultaneously, you will receive prioritised learning objectives and suggestions for developing your strategic understanding.

The aim is to give you a clearer direction for your future study and help you break through your own backgammon glass ceiling.

🏆 ABOUT YOUR COACH

I'm Connor Dickinson, BMAB Backgammon Master, England International and multiple BMAB tournament winner.

My competitive achievements include winning the Blackpool Open 2026 and the British Super Jackpot 2023.

Combining my experience as a competitive player, backgammon coach and my background in psychology, I developed the Backgammon MOT™ programme to provide a more structured and personalised approach to player development.

My philosophy is simple:

Don't just learn the correct move. Learn the reasoning behind it.

🟢 HOW DOES IT WORK?

Step 1 – Purchase Your Backgammon MOT™ Report

Complete your £25 purchase securely through Payhip, using one of the available payment methods.

Step 2 – Submit Four Backgammon Games

After purchasing, you'll receive a START HERE customer instructions PDF, explaining how to submit your four completed backgammon games.

Please follow the instructions to contact me through the Beyond the Board Payhip store, quoting your Payhip order number.

You can supply compatible game files or a shareable download link. If you experience any difficulties submitting your games, please contact me so we can arrange an alternative method.

XG-compatible or standard backgammon match files are preferred.

Step 3 – Personalised Analysis

I review your games, examine important decisions and identify recurring strategic themes using XG-supported analysis and my Backgammon MOT™ coaching approach.

Your personalised report will normally be completed within 2–3 working days of receiving all four usable game files.

Step 4 – Receive Your Report

Your personalised report is prepared as a professionally presented PDF containing annotated positions, full-colour diagrams, graphical analysis, your Areas of Improvement and a roadmap for continued development.

The completed PDF will be delivered digitally to the email address associated with your Payhip order.

📩 IMPORTANT – PERSONALISED DIGITAL PRODUCT

This is a made-to-order digital coaching report, not an instant download of the completed analysis.

You must supply four completed backgammon games after purchasing. The initial download provides instructions for submitting your games.

The finished report will be delivered digitally once your personalised analysis is complete.

The number of annotated positions, charts and assessed categories will depend upon the decisions and evidence contained within your games. Four games provide an initial diagnostic snapshot, rather than a complete assessment of every aspect of your playing ability.

No physical product will be posted.

🔴 WHO IS THIS REPORT FOR?

Whether you're an enthusiastic club player, an improving intermediate player or an ambitious tournament competitor, the Backgammon MOT™ can help you develop a more structured understanding of your game.

For £25, you're not simply purchasing an analysis of four games. You're investing in a clearer understanding of your backgammon, your decision-making and the areas that offer the greatest potential for improvement.

🎲 BEYOND THE BOARD – BACKGAMMON MOT™

Understand your game. Refine your thinking. Build your roadmap to stronger backgammon.

Connor Dickinson

BMAB Backgammon Master | England International | Backgammon MOT™