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Backgammon Literature on Doubling

Posted By: Henrik Bukkjaer
Date: Monday, 5 December 2011, at 11:12 a.m.

In Response To: Backgammon Literature on Doubling (Jake Jacobs)

Honorable mentions to the fish book as well. Instead of going nuts discussing whether the 3rd digit at minus-something minus-something should be 3 or 4, it took the theory to actual use, and supplemented with some non-theoritical points to consider.

For more recent published materials, I'd like to mention cubes & gammons near the end of a match (I know the OP mentioned Kleinman who was co-author on this one). That book took good care of a subset of matchscores (minus-two, minus-something) and discussed methods and not least trends in the data, so you could take the knowledge to the board in actual play, without having to recall hundreds of positions and thousands of numbers....

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As for how big a project it would be, to write the definitive book on cubes, I suppose it's rather writing the definitive book on how to asses positions that are hard! The actual cube theory and stuff should be able to be described in one (major) book!

See the books I mention above as examples of this, they don't contain many positions, but they contain unique and useful information on cubing.

You'd have to describe typical recube vig and cube efficiency in the different position types, etc. And also which types are easy/hard to play (for each side), so you can elaborate on the fish book material, and so on. But it doesn't have to be full of 10000 reference positions I suppose?

Of course, one could argue, what good is a book about doubling, if you don't have a clue about your actual chances to win a certain position? Well... It's a different subject I think. You also need to be able to play the optimal checkerplay, from any of these positions, in order for the percentages to be correct. What good is it, to calculate a position as a theoretical correct take, then take it, and play 5 blunders in the next 15 moves?? Would you consider correct checkerplay part of the authoritative work on cubing as well?

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