About the project

Yes. The game is free and shows no ads — no payments, no banners.

Not for playing the computer, two players on one device, nearby play without internet, or joining a room by invitation. An account (Google or email) is needed to create online rooms, send scheduled challenges, run tournaments, play against your own agent via MCP, and see your statistics across different devices.

Rolls come from a cryptographic random number generator (Web Crypto CSPRNG) with no statistical bias. You can check the distribution of rolls in your own games on the statistics screen.

Install ProNardy on your phone (the browser will offer “Add to Home Screen”) — after that, games against the computer and two-player games on one device work fully offline. And two phones side by side can play each other through Nearby play: a direct connection over Wi-Fi or a hotspot, with no server involved.

Create an online room and send the link in any messenger. Your friend opens it and lands straight in the game — no signup needed on their side.

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open protocol that lets an assistant such as ChatGPT, Claude or Grok connect to outside services. ProNardy works as an MCP server: your agent takes the seat opposite you, sees only this game and picks its move from the list of legal ones, so it cannot bring short-backgammon rules here. Setting it up takes a few minutes:

1. Sign in to ProNardy (Google or email): playing with an agent is tied to your account.
2. On the home screen open “Your agent” and press “Create a game”. You get a game code, valid for 15 minutes, and the MCP server address — https://ws.wpwoonext.com/mcp.
3. Add the server to your assistant. ChatGPT: Settings → Connectors → turn on developer mode → “Create”, paste the address, no authentication needed. Claude.ai: Settings → Connectors → “Add custom connector”, paste the address and enable the connector in the chat. Claude Code: run claude mcp add --transport http pronardy https://ws.wpwoonext.com/mcp in a terminal. Grok: in the connector settings add a remote MCP server with this address.
4. Tell your agent in the chat: “Here is a ProNardy game code: <code>. Join and play long backgammon with me.” Once it connects, its name appears on the screen.
5. Play. After your move, tell the agent “your move”. In Claude Code you can ask it to “play until the game ends” — then it waits for its turn by itself. ProNardy rolls the dice, and the agent cannot see them in advance.

Yes. In your profile, in the game history, press “Review with agent” next to a finished game — ProNardy gives you a code valid for 1 hour. Give it to your agent: it gets the engine evaluation of every move and walks you through the key moments. The code only reads the game and cannot change anything. Games with an agent stay in your history but do not count towards your statistics or achievements.

Long backgammon has no hitting: you cannot knock an opponent’s checker off or send it to the bar. Both players travel a single ring in the same direction, so the game is a race with positional blocking rather than an exchange of blows. It is the variant known as nardy, played across Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia.

They are the price of a win. If the opponent bore off at least one checker it is an Oin, 1 point. Bore off none — Mars, 2 points. Bore off none and still stuck in the starting quarter — Koks, 3 points. Bore off none despite getting all 15 checkers home — Home Mars, 4 points. The names are transliterated from the game’s own tradition, because two of them mean something different from the short game’s scale.

ProNardy is a web app (PWA): open pronardy.com in your phone’s browser and choose “Add to Home Screen” (Android offers this by itself; on iPhone it is in the Share menu). You get an icon, the game launches like a normal app, and it works offline.