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Puzzled

Posted By: Kevin Finch
Date: Wednesday, 5 October 2016, at 12:49 a.m.

Here are two problems: same position but different dice. I ran across the position with the 21 roll in one of Victor's matches out on Terje's website. He, of course, played it correctly and I, sadly, did not. I made the play that is correct when the roll is 51. (The positions here are at money, not at match score, to keep things simple.)

So, a question for the better players: why is the 1 played differently with the two rolls? Thanks.

The 51 roll:

		White is Player 2 score: 0 pip: 97 Unlimited Game Jacoby Beaver pip: 176 score: 0 Blue is Player 1
XGID=----aCC-BAA-----babbCdbaB-:0:0:1:15:0:0:3:0:10
Blue to play 15

eXtreme Gammon Version: 2.10

and the 21 roll:

		White is Player 2 score: 0 pip: 97 Unlimited Game Jacoby Beaver pip: 176 score: 0 Blue is Player 1
XGID=----aCC-BAA-----babbCdbaB-:0:0:1:12:0:0:3:0:10
Blue to play 12

eXtreme Gammon Version: 2.10

Messages In This Thread

• Puzzled
  Kevin Finch -- Wednesday, 5 October 2016, at 12:49 a.m.
  • Puzzled
    Keene -- Wednesday, 5 October 2016, at 2:29 p.m.
    • Puzzled
      Casper Van der Tak -- Wednesday, 5 October 2016, at 3:20 p.m.
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    Kevin Finch -- Thursday, 6 October 2016, at 11:33 a.m.