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Do "New Ideas In Backgammon" rollouts have to be revisited?

Posted By: leobueno
Date: Thursday, 17 March 2011, at 9:58 p.m.

I am about to re-read Kit Woolsey's New Ideas In Backgammon (which I recall reading somewhere that Mochy credits as his revelation that Backgammon is a wonderful game).

I undestand NIIB to say that the best plays in the problems were ascertained with JellyFish rollouts.

Neil K mentions that JellyFish is an archaic bot (http://www.bgonline.org/forums/webbbs_config.pl?noframes;read=91787), indicating that XG and GNUbg are the current standards.

At my level, Kit's analysis should be the gospel, but, for those of you at the higher echelons, I am wondering whether the problem solutions in NIIB need to be reevaluated with XG or GNUbg.

Messages In This Thread

• Do "New Ideas In Backgammon" rollouts have to be revisited?
  leobueno -- Thursday, 17 March 2011, at 9:58 p.m.
  • Do "New Ideas In Backgammon" rollouts have to be revisited?
    Chuck Bower -- Thursday, 17 March 2011, at 11:46 p.m.
    • Do "New Ideas In Backgammon" rollouts have to be revisited?
      Sebastiaan kuijs -- Saturday, 19 March 2011, at 8:15 a.m.
  • Do "New Ideas In Backgammon" rollouts have to be revisited?
    Nack Ballard -- Friday, 18 March 2011, at 4:50 a.m.
  • Do "New Ideas In Backgammon" rollouts have to be revisited?
    Stick -- Friday, 18 March 2011, at 6:50 a.m.
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