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Contrasting Variants

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Thursday, 11 December 2014, at 2:36 a.m.

In Response To: Contrasting Variants (Taper_Mike)

Taper_Mike wrote:

Thanks also to Keene for mentioning Lamford's Law. I had forgotten it, although in practice what I have been doing generally yields the same result.

Doug Zare has a 2007 Gammon Village article, "Serious Backgammon Errors - Late Loose Hits," which concerns hitting loose with a five-point board. As he mentions, his thresholds don't agree with Lamford's rule, and he suggests that the difference might be that Lamford considered four-point boards. I haven't gone through the positions in the present thread, though, to see how well Zare's table of thresholds works.

Messages In This Thread

• Who Woulda And Coulda Known This?
  Paul Weaver -- Monday, 8 December 2014, at 5:26 p.m.
  • Who Woulda And Coulda Known This?
    Keene -- Monday, 8 December 2014, at 6:15 p.m.
    • Contrasting Variants
      Taper_Mike -- Wednesday, 10 December 2014, at 12:00 a.m.
      • Contrasting Variants
        Timothy Chow -- Thursday, 11 December 2014, at 2:36 a.m.
        • Contrasting Variants
          Taper_Mike -- Thursday, 11 December 2014, at 10:11 p.m.
  • Who Woulda And Coulda Known This?
    Timothy Chow -- Saturday, 20 December 2014, at 5:10 p.m.