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Choose an AI game or find the closest available real player.

Tavla Western backgammon

Open Tavla games

Find the closest available real player.

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Start a Tavla match

Open Play

1 point First to 3 First to 5 First to 7 Open

Clock: 3 min reserve + 15 sec delay per move; reserve resets each Open Play game.

Open keeps a running score until either player marks a game as final.

Public match offer

When several lengths are offered, the joining player chooses before play starts.

More match options

Show legal move hints

Use the doubling cubeUse the Jacoby rule for one-point play

Use a game clock

Reserve sDelay s

Play the policy model

The AI runs in your browser while the server referees every move.

Raw policy

Choose match length

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Connecting…

Secure dice Download verification YAML

AI performanceBrowser inference

Move selector —

Total decision —

Tree search —

NN inference —

Chat

☰

Private, opt-in call between the two players.

Camera & microphone

Microphone Camera Speaker

🎙️ Voice call in progress

Chat is disabled in this match.

Moves

Log

Waiting for another human player. AI play does not stop the search.

Match

Player invite

Spectator invite

Match found

🌐

Opponent

1500 Elo

🎉

Game complete

🏆

Game complete

Return to Play

🏆

Match complete

Return to Play

Report a problem

Send a private note to the TavlaTalk team.

Message type

The server will attach the current board, dice, move, match, and clock state. Chat and voice/video are not included.

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