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OMG !!!!!!!!!

Posted By: Bob Koca
Date: Monday, 28 September 2009, at 7:37 p.m.

In Response To: OMG !!!!!!!!! (Rich Munitz)

"All sorts of reasons why doubles reduce the skill factor in backgammon"

There are some ways they increase it though also:

1) Races will go faster so on a per time basis more games per hour. Advantage to skilled player.

2) N vs N roll position cube actions are quite easy with no doubles possible. Possibility of doubles increases skill needed.

3) Doubles tend to have the most number of legal plays to sort through. Possibility of doubles benefits the skilled player.

4) Without doubles a race lead is even more strong than before. So strategy would shift to obtaining a race lead and then just bringing it home. For example which types of games are more complicated on average, those that start 64R or 64P? I will also guess that with the no doubles rule that 64R is correct.

If neither player knows of the reduction the changing odds seems pretty big to me if one player doesn't really use them in the first place anyways.

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