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Naccelers -- another position for you

Posted By: Maik Stiebler
Date: Thursday, 4 February 2010, at 1:09 p.m.

In Response To: Naccelers -- another position for you (Nack Ballard)

• Blue:

  • triplet on n2 = 1
  • one checker on S3 = 3
  • There seem to be a million ways to count the checkers on n7 and n-5. I like the hopping approach: Hop all of them to n1 (that's 4 forward hops and 2 backward hops netting 2) to get a sixtuplet worth 1.
  • 1 + 3 + 2 + 1 = 7

• White:

  • triplet on n2 = 1
  • "Midblot 2 + S1" (did I spell that correctly?) = 3
  • Neutral shift of the checkers on n16 and n14 to n15 leads to a double zag = 10
  • 1 + 3 + 10 = 14.

I like how in the course of the Naccel tutorial series, much like in a language course, a vocabulary is gradually built up to describe the counting-relevant features of a backgammon position. As a side effect, once I've Naccelized a position, I'm often close to having memorized it, because I can sum it up with a few of these words. Similar to Ian, though, I'm still not fluent enough to prefer Naccel over my accustomed routine (half-crossover approximative pip count, in my case) in live play. But I know, skating takes quite some time to master.

Messages In This Thread

• White to play an awkward 2-1
  Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 2 February 2010, at 9:14 p.m.
  • White to play an awkward 2-1
    TheProdigy -- Tuesday, 2 February 2010, at 9:38 p.m.
    • White to play an awkward 2-1
      christian munk-christensen -- Tuesday, 2 February 2010, at 9:44 p.m.
  • White to play an awkward 2-1
    christian munk-christensen -- Tuesday, 2 February 2010, at 9:39 p.m.
  • White to play an awkward 2-1
    Chuck Bower -- Tuesday, 2 February 2010, at 9:40 p.m.
  • White to play an awkward 2-1
    Stick -- Tuesday, 2 February 2010, at 9:41 p.m.
  • White to play an awkward 2-1
    John O'Hagan -- Tuesday, 2 February 2010, at 9:45 p.m.
  • White to play an awkward 2-1
    Paul Weaver -- Tuesday, 2 February 2010, at 10:06 p.m.
  • White to play an awkward 2-1
    Nack Ballard -- Wednesday, 3 February 2010, at 12:33 a.m.
  • White to play an awkward 2-1
    neilkaz -- Wednesday, 3 February 2010, at 12:40 a.m.
  • OTB and rollout
    Timothy Chow -- Wednesday, 3 February 2010, at 1:34 a.m.
  • Naccelers -- another position for you
    Nack Ballard -- Wednesday, 3 February 2010, at 2:58 a.m.
    • Naccelers -- another position for you
      Petter Bengtsson -- Wednesday, 3 February 2010, at 3:31 p.m.
    • Naccelers -- another position for you
      Lucky Jim -- Wednesday, 3 February 2010, at 9:26 p.m.
    • Naccelers -- another position for you
      Maik Stiebler -- Thursday, 4 February 2010, at 1:09 p.m.