[slowdog]

Depends on your definition of win.

Do you mean perfect game?

Be the best?

Beat the average player?

I think there’s a bunch of vagueness but let’s take “win” to be generally better than humans, I’m not an AI expert but I suspect it’s got more to do with the popularity of the game

There’s no reason why backgammon can’t be played by machines, and definitely no reason why they would well. There’s just not as much as a marketing pop compared to chess, go or Starcraft all well regarded complex games. In a lot of ways, googles investment in AI is a marketing opportunity, and in an unpopular game there’s not as much incentive