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Roll doubles, watch their face: video backgammon
Video backgammon at Rovian: 15 checkers, server-rolled dice and one shared 10-minute clock, with your opponent on camera. Is there a gammon? Find out here.
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Roll doubles, watch their face: video backgammon
Video backgammon at Rovian: 15 checkers, server-rolled dice and one shared 10-minute clock, with your opponent on camera. Is there a gammon? Find out here.4 min read - Play & experience
Draw one card too many, lose two: how to play Ordu 21
How to play Ordu 21: draw cards to build an army without going over 21, then play chess with it. One card too many could cost you your queen. Here is how.4 min read - Play & experience
Your pieces are hidden. Your face isn’t: Joker Chess and Geister
Joker Chess and Geister are Rovian’s two hidden-piece bluffing games. Here are the rules, bot practice and video play. But will your face give you away?5 min read - Play & experience
Auto Arena: you build the army, then you can only watch
Auto Arena is Rovian’s two-player auto battler. You make every call before the fight starts, then watch your army fight and your opponent react.5 min read - Play & experience
30 seats, one left at the table: how Last One works
Last One is Rovian’s knockout competition on camera: up to 30 players, four games, one champion. Your camera stays on even as you lose. Then what?5 min read - Tips & guides
You’ll forget that opening. Opening School is counting on it
Opening School helps you memorize chess openings with spaced repetition. It shows a move, quizzes you, then asks again right before you forget it.5 min read - Tips & guides
Even Capablanca got it wrong. Now it’s your puzzle
Open famous chess games from Capablanca to Carlsen in Master Games and analyze them with Stockfish. A world champion’s mistake becomes your puzzle.4 min read - Tips & guides
Easy puzzles feel great. They also teach you nothing
Rovian’s puzzle studio picks chess puzzles by your level and your latest results. Solve everything and it gets harder; keep missing and it eases off.4 min read - Tips & guides
No meeting link. Your chess lesson is already on the board.
Online chess lessons on Rovian happen on one screen: your coach’s camera, the board and shared arrows. Here’s how to find a coach and book with credits.5 min read
