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How to play with one primed straggler?
Posted By: Stick In Response To: How to play with one primed straggler? (John O'Hagan)
Date: Sunday, 28 July 2013, at 3:36 a.m.
As John points out, a good place to start is another reference position you should know. X amount of men off with one in the air against a closed board with perfect distribution. As he said, you win in the ballpark of 6% and since we are far from the closeout a better guess is 8%.
White is Player 2
score: 0
pip: 431 point match pip: 60
score: 0
Blue is Player 1XGID=aBBBCCB--A-------------ff-:0:0:1:12:0:0:0:1:10 Blue to play 12
1. Rollout1 9/6 eq: +0.873
Player:
Opponent:93.64% (G:0.00% B:0.00%)
6.36% (G:0.00% B:0.00%)Conf.: ± 0.001 (+0.872...+0.874)
Duration: 2.0 seconds1 1296 Games rolled with Variance Reduction.
Dice Seed: 28150473
Moves: 3-ply, cube decisions: XG RollereXtreme Gammon Version: 2.10, MET: Kazaross XG2
However, I don't agree with: "I think you're more likely to anchor than not so I think the gain outweighs the loss. Plus some opponents will hit with all eleven 3s from the bar, which I think would be a mistake."
Since we are forced to hit with [31 32 33] (as John originally stated) and the other threes, [43 53 63] can be used to enter and double hit so our chances of anchoring are greatly diminished, I would play the non fancy play of 23/22* 3/1 2/1. It's still good I think to hit him off the front of the prime since the chance of your opponent now picking up a second checker is virtually zero. Knock him off it and hope that somehow messes up him rolling the prime forward.
Perhaps another reference position worth taking a look at is something like what is posted below. This will give us a rough idea of how much we stand to gain if we were to anchor. I chose the 23pt because I think it's more likely we anchor there but the 22pt or 24pt are equally worth knowing but extrapolation should suffice.
White is Player 1
score: 0
pip: 1121 point match pip: 68
score: 0
Blue is Player 2XGID=a-aABBBBBB---A----A----ib-:0:0:-1:62:0:0:0:1:10 Blue to play 62
1. Rollout1 Bar/23 eq: -0.707
Player:
Opponent:14.64% (G:1.05% B:0.01%)
85.36% (G:0.00% B:0.00%)Conf.: ± 0.003 (-0.710...-0.705)
Duration: 1 minute 51 seconds1 1296 Games rolled with Variance Reduction.
Dice Seed: 28150473
Moves: 3-ply, cube decisions: XG RollereXtreme Gammon Version: 2.10, MET: Kazaross XG2
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