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Errors in Walter Trice's BACKGAMMON BOOTCAMP?

Posted By: storm
Date: Monday, 10 December 2012, at 8:53 p.m.

In Response To: Errors in Walter Trice's BACKGAMMON BOOTCAMP? (leobueno)

For anyone interested in bg, Bootcamp is a wonderful book but the positions from the book that you will be using as cube references it would make sense to reroll. I have only rolled out relatively few positions from the book, but among those I did (no backgame and prime positions), the ratio of positions where the verdict changed using GnuBG 2-ply with a decent number of trials were higher than I expected, although there were no big mistakes EQ wise (all < 0.035 is my guess, but a small sample). Off the top of my head: Some TG/P acepoint games became D/P and the nearend-contact reference with a single checker on the 13 and opp holding the 18 pt, own extra spares on the 5 and 6 and opponent's single extra spare on the 3pt went from small D/T to a small (.013 I think) pass. Moving the 3pt spare to the 2pt made the decision borderline (1.00). Also, one of bearoff/race stack and straggler positions was given with incorrect cube action, this being saved by the fact that applying Trice's guidelines from the section produced the correct cube action.

Maybe you could start a thread for typos, corrections, rollouts, supplements etc. for the book ;)

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