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Posted By: Daniel Murphy
Date: Saturday, 1 March 2014, at 6:30 p.m.

In Response To: darrin.funk@gmail.com (dfunkt)

A couple of points in favor of using a doubling cube that you may not fully appreciate:

My question had more to do with the doubling cube itself and how it reduces the ancient game, full of richness and complexity, down to a series of statistical decisions based on a players ability to estimate the probability of a win from a given position.

Cube use doesn't do that, but when you play without the cube, you never have to make any estimates of winning probability, and that necessity, with the cube in play, is also a source of great "richness and complexity."

Why play the the game out? We can just force a resign. To me something wonderful is lost.

But the cube is not used only to force resignations. Some -- most -- proper doubles are takes. Using a cube, can you double in time? Can you take when it's a take? Can you pass when it's a pass? And after a take, can you redouble in time?

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