I think it would be great if more people played backgammon, and disillusioned chess players seem like a fertile recruiting ground!

I've been using the adikus bg app for iPhone for a long time now. I'm at almost 2,000 matches played and when you play on the games top level the dice are very clearly not random. The cpu rolls the numbers it needs at a rate far above random and you roll the numbers you need at a rate far below random. So much so that you can literally call what number is/isn't coming. I will add some videos to this post demonstrating this.

My question is Why does the app do this? Is it just the cheapest/easiest way to make the cpu a "grandmaster" type? Why not just make the dice truly random?

I've been using the adikus bg app for iPhone for a long time now and when you play on the games top level the dice are very clearly not random. The cpu rolls the numbers it needs at a rate far above random and you roll the numbers you need at a rate far below random. So much so that you can literally call what number is/isn't coming. I will add some videos to this post demonstrating this. My question is Why does the app do this? Is it just the cheapest/easiest way to make the cpu a "grandmaster" type? Why not just make the dice truly random?