Here we will address precision dice, dice cups and rigged dice, because in a fundamental sense they pertain to the same issue, which could be characterized as minimizing “external risk”, to be distinguished from “internal risk”. First, a word about “internal risk”. Backgammon, at its core, is the challenge of decision-making under conditions of uncertainty and in the face of the inevitability of risking having a checker or group of checkers hit at some point during the game.
