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Bearoff cube decision

Posted By: kruidenbuiltje
Date: Friday, 28 October 2011, at 8:19 p.m.

In Response To: Bearoff cube decision (Daniel Murphy)

There are different ways of tackling theese short races.

A populair kind is EPC (effective pipcount)

Another way (but with the same principals) is described in Lamford's book "Improve your Backgammon"

We need to adjust the pipcount:

white has 4 additional checkers on the board (+4x2pips) blue has a gap on 3 and 4 (+2+4 pips)

So the corrected pipcount is:

blue: 62, white: 69

Blue is ahead 7/62 = 11%

according to the 8/9/12 rule, this is a double/take

Messages In This Thread

• Bearoff cube decision
  Daniel Murphy -- Friday, 28 October 2011, at 7:54 p.m.
  • Bearoff cube decision
    kruidenbuiltje -- Friday, 28 October 2011, at 8:19 p.m.
    • Bearoff cube decision
      Mr Majestyk -- Friday, 28 October 2011, at 11:57 p.m.
      • Bearoff cube decision
        Bob Koca -- Saturday, 29 October 2011, at 12:29 a.m.
        • Bearoff cube decision
          Mr Majestyk -- Saturday, 29 October 2011, at 1:05 a.m.
  • Bearoff cube decision
    neilkaz -- Saturday, 29 October 2011, at 12:42 a.m.
    • Bearoff cube decision
      Mr Majestyk -- Saturday, 29 October 2011, at 1:06 a.m.
  • Bearoff cube decision
    Ian Shaw -- Saturday, 29 October 2011, at 4:17 p.m.
  • Bearoff cube decision -RO
    Daniel Murphy -- Saturday, 5 November 2011, at 5:51 p.m.