There's a bug in the Backgammon Match game (doesn't affect single-game Backgammon) which we'll fix in the next couple of days, but I wanted to make you aware of it -- especially you tourney players out there!
The bug is very obscure and happens only when you resign a game (but not the match) and only in a particular situation, which is when you've moved pieces with your roll and then immediately resigned (without sending your turn that moved your pieces). You might do that, for instance, if you're losing and trying to make sure you bear off one piece to avoid the gammon -- once you've borne off the piece, you might resign immediately if you have no chance of winning so you and your opponent can move on to the next game. This is a perfectly valid thing to do and the game lets you do it (correctly noticing that you have not been gammoned).
So what's the bug? It'll start the next game with the Roll/Double question, choosing the player to give that decision to at random. It shouldn't do that. It should roll one die for each player, and then give the resulting roll to the player with the higher die value, which is what it does when starting a game in other situations. (If this sounds familiar to our long-time players, it's because we had this same bug about two years ago. It snuck back into the update.)
Anyway, we'll have it fixed soon. Sorry for any hassle. Please note that we will not change any tourney games where this happens, so if you're concerned about that don't move pieces and resign within the same move.
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