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Two questions

Posted By: Chase
Date: Saturday, 19 September 2015, at 2:54 a.m.

Unless I'm way off base I assume most everyone would play 9/5 in this position, so I'm just going to post the rollout now.

First question: The race is even and there is no pressing need for Blue to split the back men, so why is it correct to leave a direct shot, particularly when most of White's 5s don't do much?

Second question: When I asked for an XGR++ evaluation, only one play (9/6 5/4*) came back with the XG "book" icon in front of it. This seems odd, since it's XGR++'s 6th best move. What gives?

		White is Player 2 score: 0 pip: 162 1 point match pip: 162 score: 0 Blue is Player 1
XGID=-a--aAD-CA--dDa--c-e----B-:0:0:1:31:0:0:0:1:10
Blue to play 31

1.	Rollout1	24/21 6/5	eq: +0.064
	Player: Opponent: 53.22% (G:17.62% B:2.23%) 46.78% (G:15.73% B:1.86%) Conf.: ± 0.003 (+0.061...+0.068) - [100.0%] Duration: 25 minutes 04 seconds
2.	Rollout1	9/5	eq: +0.054 (-0.010)
	Player: Opponent: 52.72% (G:18.03% B:2.01%) 47.28% (G:14.78% B:1.54%) Conf.: ± 0.003 (+0.052...+0.057) - [0.0%] Duration: 21 minutes 55 seconds
1 5184 Games rolled with Variance Reduction. Moves: 3-ply, cube decisions: XG Roller

eXtreme Gammon Version: 2.19.211.pre-release, MET: Kazaross XG2

Messages In This Thread

• Two questions
  Chase -- Saturday, 19 September 2015, at 2:54 a.m.
  • Two questions
    Timothy Chow -- Saturday, 19 September 2015, at 3:46 a.m.
  • Two questions
    Casper Van der Tak -- Saturday, 19 September 2015, at 8:25 a.m.
  • 41$-32S-31
    Stick -- Sunday, 20 September 2015, at 4:04 a.m.
    • 41$-32S-31
      Chase -- Sunday, 20 September 2015, at 5:44 a.m.
      • 41$-32S-31
        Timothy Chow -- Sunday, 20 September 2015, at 5:11 p.m.
  • 41$-32S-31, etc.
    Nack Ballard -- Monday, 21 September 2015, at 2:00 a.m.
    • 41$-32S-31, etc.
      Chase -- Monday, 21 September 2015, at 10:09 a.m.