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Advanced Backgammon #185

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Wednesday, 18 June 2014, at 3:59 a.m.

In Response To: Advanced Backgammon #185 (Taper_Mike)

Taper_Mike wrote:

By keeping the 24pt, and entering on the 23pt, Blue gives himself two espcaping numbers, 5 and 6.

Aha! A theory we can test. If we shift a White checker from her 9pt to her 8pt then this argument should no longer apply, right? But it seems that the bot doesn't see any significant difference between these two situations.

I still think that White's incomplete prime is a red herring, and that the bot is just playing this as a straight backgame, with the 10pt and 9pt checkers being more useful as containment material than they are at risk of being buried.

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