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Puzzle: Fool's mate in backgammon

Posted By: Henrik Bukkjaer
Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2012, at 10:49 p.m.

In Response To: Puzzle: Fool's mate in backgammon (Timothy Chow)

>> but Blue could misplay 21 31 41 51 61 and lose

This is of course bogus, and should never be ruled as "non-gin".

The player could also make an illegal move that the opponent could accept, and then you can never be gin anyway...

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More interesting - XG thinks it's not gin, so it awards a "decision" for the move, thus a lower error rate. Thus, if you're playing a match with a PR bet, then you should decline an opponents offer to resign, if you still have a stack on the duece point - since you might roll aces to lower your PR :-)

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