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nomenclature/ambiguity

Posted By: Daniel Murphy
Date: Friday, 26 August 2011, at 6:47 p.m.

In Response To: nomenclature/ambiguity (Chuck Bower)

I think the accepted meaning of "dead cube" is a cube which has no value to the owner

That's the definition I find looking up "dead cube" in glossaries. But the continuous model contrasts "live cube" and "dead cube" where "dead cube" means "cubeless after the current double." Similarly bot "dead cube" stats on windows and take points apply both to score-based deadness and last-roll based deadness. I that explains why many of use "dead cube" to refer to take points and match equities both when redoubling is possible and when it is not.

Search "dead cube" site:bgonline.org/forums/ . The term is used both ways "Buried cube" seems not to have caught on. Some writers consistently use "cubeless take point" when they mean take point before further cube action, when action is in fact possible. Maybe that's best?

Messages In This Thread

• High dead cube take points and the reasons why
  rew -- Thursday, 25 August 2011, at 8:02 p.m.
  • High dead cube take points and the reasons why
    Max Levenstein -- Thursday, 25 August 2011, at 8:36 p.m.
  • High dead cube take points and the reasons why
    Daniel Murphy -- Thursday, 25 August 2011, at 10:22 p.m.
  • High dead cube take points and the reasons why
    Casper van der Tak -- Thursday, 25 August 2011, at 11:10 p.m.
    • PS - Mochy?
      Casper van der Tak -- Thursday, 25 August 2011, at 11:12 p.m.
  • nomenclature/ambiguity
    Chuck Bower -- Friday, 26 August 2011, at 5:17 p.m.
    • nomenclature/ambiguity
      Bob Koca -- Friday, 26 August 2011, at 5:22 p.m.
    • nomenclature/ambiguity
      Daniel Murphy -- Friday, 26 August 2011, at 6:47 p.m.