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Rollout settings for Magriel

Posted By: Hardy Hübener
Date: Monday, 9 March 2009, at 10:49 a.m.

I am presently working through Magriel's Backgammon (again). This time I want to do it right and send everything through GNU Backgammon. But what are the right settings?

The book concentrates on money game and for most positions no cube is displayed.

So I started doing my rollouts until I understood, that Magriel wasn't using the Jacoby rule. Jacoby is switched "ON" as a default setting in GNUBG. Also for me money game was always 'automatically' connected to Jacoby, that I didn't even think about the possibility doing money rollouts without it.

But I understand that there are backgammon servers that play money games without Jacoby by default. Does anyone play money sessions or chouettes without Jacoby today?

For some positions in the book it doesn't even make sense to roll, but instead the player on roll should have doubled before. It's easy to correct this by assuming that the opponent owns the cube. (That's what Bagai did for some of the position in his "Classic Backgammon Revisitied".)

What would you generally recommend? Rollouts with or without Jacoby? What makes more sense?

Thanks for yor answers!

Cheers,

Hardy

Messages In This Thread

• Rollout settings for Magriel
  Hardy Hübener -- Monday, 9 March 2009, at 10:49 a.m.
  • Rollout settings for Magriel
    Neil Robins -- Monday, 9 March 2009, at 11:06 a.m.
  • Rollout settings for Magriel
    Frank Berger -- Monday, 9 March 2009, at 7:22 p.m.
    • Rollout settings for Magriel
      Hardy Hübener -- Monday, 9 March 2009, at 11:19 p.m.
      • Rollout settings for Magriel
        Rich Munitz -- Monday, 9 March 2009, at 11:37 p.m.
        • Rollout settings for Magriel
          jdg -- Tuesday, 10 March 2009, at 1:33 p.m.