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Too good, too good, too good, oops!

Posted By: David Levy
Date: Saturday, 10 May 2014, at 8:51 p.m.

At the score, you took an early cube. You turned the game around and have been playing on for a gammon. Alas, you had a problem clearing that last point and got hit. Yet you still have a racing lead, though with much-reduced gammon chances.

Here are two consecutive redoubling decisions. In both, how do you calculate winning chances and gammon chances over the board? What is your doubling window?

What is the proper cube action?

		White is Player 2 score: 0 pip: 72 9 point match pip: 44 score: 3 Blue is Player 1
XGID=-EGa----a------a----b--cgA:1:1:1:00:3:0:0:9:10
Blue on roll, cube action?

eXtreme Gammon Version: 2.10

		White is Player 2 score: 0 pip: 68 9 point match pip: 44 score: 3 Blue is Player 1
XGID=-EGa----a----------ab--cgA:1:1:1:00:3:0:0:9:10
Blue on roll, cube action?

eXtreme Gammon Version: 2.10

Messages In This Thread

• Too good, too good, too good, oops!
  David Levy -- Saturday, 10 May 2014, at 8:51 p.m.
  • Too good, too good, too good, oops!
    Timothy Chow -- Monday, 12 May 2014, at 3:07 p.m.
    • Too good, too good, too good, oops!
      Bob Koca -- Monday, 12 May 2014, at 11:26 p.m.
  • Still need help here!
    David Levy -- Tuesday, 13 May 2014, at 2:08 p.m.
  • Too good, too good, too good, oops!
    Casper Van der Tak -- Tuesday, 13 May 2014, at 2:21 p.m.
    • +1
      David Presser -- Tuesday, 13 May 2014, at 4:23 p.m.
  • RO: Too good, too good, too good, oops!
    David Levy -- Thursday, 15 May 2014, at 5:50 a.m.
    • RO: Too good, too good, too good, oops!
      Timothy Chow -- Thursday, 15 May 2014, at 2:39 p.m.