Just a small part of backgammon gamblers used to resort to a doubling cube. And it is wrongly, because a doubling cube brings an essential amount of new strategy into the game. Below we present a brief description of how you can use it.

• It is possible to play backgammon like a series of games, with gamblers contending to gain a concrete amount of points in order to win. (Or the wiiner may be a gambler who has the most points when rhe game is over.)
• Each game opens with a value of just one point. The doubling cube is situated in the center of the Bar and is not managed by either gambler.
• When a gambler is sure that he has the advantage, that gambler can suggest a double before he rolls the dice. It is completely up to him.
• The opposing gambler has a rule to turn down the suggestion, but finishes (or loses) the game by this action.
• In case when the opposing gambler accepts the suggestion, the value of the game doubles (for example, from 2 to 4, from 8 to 16 and so on).
• When a gambler accepts a double, he manages the doubling cube and he is the only gambler who has a rule to make the next suggestion of a double.
• Some gamblers use ‘beavers’: when a gambler is doubled, he has a chance to redouble (beaver) at once while managing the cube. The original doubler may choose to accept or to turn down, as with a normal double.
• Some gamblers like to use ‘automatic doubling’that means that when the first roll is doubles, the value of the game reaches 2 points. The cube stays in the middle as well, so that no gambler can manage it.

You should also remember that although any doubling cube has a confined number of sides, from a technical side a single game will not have maximum point value. Secondly, if you want to play backgammon using doubling rules you don’t need a cube. A simple pencil and paper will do.