“S” Backgammon Terms

The difference in score between winning a game and losing it.

The difference in your equity before a roll and after it, or the difference between rolling poorly and rolling well.

A position with many gaps and few adjacent made points.

A method of pairing players in a tournament. Under the Swiss system, players are not eliminated, no player meets the same opponent twice, and successive rounds match players with scores as similar to each other as possible. See post by Osman Guner.

To give up one point (2) to make another, usually in your home board.

The roll of 1-6 to escape a prime, usually from the bar and often hitting a blot.

Consolation flight.

Bias introduced in a rollout because of errors in checker play (2) or cube play (2).