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Practice minimizing wastage

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Sunday, 27 January 2013, at 11:13 p.m.

In Response To: Practice minimizing wastage (AP)

Let me first say that my experience is almost entirely with XG version 1. Based on your comments, though, it sounds like XG version 2 is behaving similarly, so in what follows I won't distinguish between the versions.

XG 3-ply is basically a donkey when it comes to bearing in. You don't have to take my word for it, because if you re-evaluate using XG Roller+ or even XG 4-ply, you will often get dramatically different results. Even XG Roller+ may be suspect because after all, it's doing a truncated rollout, and the play during the rollout is donkeylicious. This may seem surprising because XG is normally very strong, and you wouldn't think that it would bungle such a "simple" task. But it does. Often what looks like the best move to me won't even make it through XG's move filter; if I then force an evaluation of my move, it usually performs well and is sometimes the top play. To be fair, XG 3-ply will rarely make more than a 0.010 error, but add up ten 0.010 errors (or even ten 0.005 errors) and it starts making a difference.

To make a long story short, I'd recommend that you trust nothing weaker than XGR+ when it comes to bearing in.

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• Practice minimizing wastage
  AP -- Sunday, 27 January 2013, at 9:34 p.m.
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    Stick -- Sunday, 27 January 2013, at 9:48 p.m.
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    AdamStocks -- Sunday, 27 January 2013, at 10:32 p.m.
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      Stick -- Sunday, 27 January 2013, at 10:53 p.m.
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        AdamStocks -- Monday, 28 January 2013, at 1:35 a.m.
      • Practice minimizing wastage XG 3-Ply :-(
        Michael Depreli -- Monday, 28 January 2013, at 1:33 p.m.
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    Timothy Chow -- Sunday, 27 January 2013, at 11:13 p.m.
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      AdamStocks -- Monday, 28 January 2013, at 1:43 a.m.
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      AP -- Monday, 28 January 2013, at 3:48 a.m.
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        Bob Koca -- Monday, 28 January 2013, at 4:33 a.m.
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          AP -- Monday, 28 January 2013, at 4:10 p.m.
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            Timothy Chow -- Monday, 28 January 2013, at 6:00 p.m.
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    Taper_Mike -- Monday, 28 January 2013, at 12:41 a.m.
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      AP -- Monday, 28 January 2013, at 3:55 a.m.
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        Taper_Mike -- Monday, 28 January 2013, at 7:43 a.m.
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          Timothy Chow -- Monday, 28 January 2013, at 6:15 p.m.
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    Jason Lee -- Monday, 28 January 2013, at 4:16 p.m.