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bearing in problem

Posted By: Robert Andersson
Date: Friday, 17 August 2012, at 6:25 p.m.

So I want to take one off for millons of reasons but XG tells me to make 8/5 6/4. This is probably trivial to most of you, but why is that 4,3% better?

Yes this is DMP but I thought my winnningchances improved taking one off.

		White is sambuka score: 0 pip: 84 1 point match pip: 68 score: 0 Blue is swedfish
XGID=-aBCBCD-A--a-------bbcbbb-:0:0:1:32:0:0:0:1:0
Blue to play 32

1.	XG Roller+	8/5 6/4	eq: +0,835
	Player: Opponent: 91,74% (G:1,86% B:0,01%) 8,26% (G:0,00% B:0,00%)
2.	XG Roller+	8/6 3/Off	eq: +0,792 (-0,043)
	Player: Opponent: 89,58% (G:1,54% B:0,02%) 10,42% (G:0,00% B:0,00%)
3.	4-ply	8/3	eq: +0,798 (-0,037)
	Player: Opponent: 89,88% (G:1,93% B:0,04%) 10,12% (G:0,00% B:0,00%)
4.	3-ply	8/6 5/2	eq: +0,732 (-0,103)
	Player: Opponent: 86,58% (G:1,81% B:0,01%) 13,42% (G:0,07% B:0,00%)
5.	3-ply	6/4 5/2	eq: +0,708 (-0,127)
	Player: Opponent: 85,39% (G:1,99% B:0,02%) 14,61% (G:0,18% B:0,00%)

eXtreme Gammon Version: 2.03, MET: Kazaross XG2

Messages In This Thread

• bearing in problem
  Robert Andersson -- Friday, 17 August 2012, at 6:25 p.m.
  • bearing in problem
    Nick -- Friday, 17 August 2012, at 6:36 p.m.
  • bearing in problem
    Casper van der Tak -- Friday, 17 August 2012, at 7:37 p.m.
  • bearing in problem
    John O'Hagan -- Friday, 17 August 2012, at 7:41 p.m.
  • bearing in problem
    Timothy Chow -- Saturday, 18 August 2012, at 12:20 a.m.
    • bearing in problem
      Nick -- Saturday, 18 August 2012, at 2:36 a.m.
      • bearing in problem
        garyo -- Saturday, 18 August 2012, at 5:33 a.m.
  • bearing in problem
    garyo -- Saturday, 18 August 2012, at 5:40 a.m.
  • bearing in problem
    Taper_Mike -- Thursday, 23 August 2012, at 7:50 a.m.