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Meta-MET Needed for Best 2 of 3 Matches
Posted By: Jason Lee In Response To: Meta-MET Needed for Best 2 of 3 Matches (Taper_Mike)
Date: Thursday, 28 July 2011, at 11:57 p.m.
To Taper Mike: Your question was fine, and I'm glad that you accepted and understood the well-crafted answers.
I just wanted to say something to those who ask questions like this but don't accept or believe the answers given by people who know a lot about these things. When you go to a backgammon tournament, listen to the conversations that happen outside of their matches.
The top players discuss strategy and tactics -- they discuss match equity considerations, count hitting and covering numbers, talk about cube efficiency and gammon values, discuss primes and blitzes and holding games.
The beginners and many intermediate players talk about the dice, and how lucky or unlucky they got, how many consecutive rolls they couldn't toss a four, only to roll three of them in a row when they didn't need them anymore.
Why am I talking about this? Because too many times in my life, I've offered up answers to questions like this, only to have the person on the other side insist that I was wrong. "You're telling me that the dice on GridGammon are fair? Give me a break. Every time my opponent needs 66, he gets it. I swear." "You don't think about how hot or cold your dice are when you're deciding whether or not to take a cube? That's insane." "Thank goodness I made that play, your 14 would have hit me twice, but now it didn't hit anything!!!"
You want to get good at backgammon? Stop thinking about luck. Stop thinking that things that are really independent aren't so. Every brain cell you use thinking about those things takes away from brain power you could use to think about backgammon.
So Taper Mike -- you did the right thing. You asked the question that you needed to have answered, you got the right answer, made sure you understood it, and moved on.
JLee
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