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You got it--unless you are in a long match
Posted By: phil simborg In Response To: Here is the simple answer (Bill calton)
Date: Tuesday, 7 October 2014, at 2:34 a.m.
There is no reason not to memorize the average live cube take point and gammon values for 7A/7A down. Just take the chart and keep it in front of you and when you practice on XG or play for practice, ask yourself what these numbers are at the beginning of every game (which you should do in tournaments as well) and eventually you will have them. Also, when you think about these take points and GV's, think about why they are high, low, or average at each score and it will help you to remember them. You need to be conscious of these numbers before your opening move anyway, as they affect your checker play from the getgo.
For higher scores, if you make a table of the take point for the initial cube and for recubes for 9away/9away down (email me if you want mine), you will quickly see some patterns, that except for lopsided scores you can pretty much use 22 and .55 for the TP and GV's on the initial cube (notice a couple that are a little off). It is for the 2 cube and 4 cube recubes, and for much longer matches with higher cubes, that you really need to know your match equities to estimate TP's. And that is where you had better have a decent sense or memory for the MET's or you need Neil's Numbers.
Neil's Numbers really aren't that hard to learn...there's a pattern...and in longer matches and for recubes it's not that hard to use with a little practice.
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