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OLM Mon. Dec. 10th

Posted By: Stick
Date: Monday, 10 December 2007, at 11:22 p.m.

In Response To: OLM Mon. Dec. 10th (Steve Mellen)

I only eliminate moves where there's no real difference between the first and second (or third/fourth) moves when that move will have no affect on the game. When you're trying to build your board or save the gammon, these plays mostly transpose, add nothing to the game, and are all more or less of the same worth. Whereas an opening roll, while possibly even the same difference in equity as the above mentioned example, takes the game in one direction or another.

Of course I eliminate plays where it's a true next, we're trying to learn from the interesting plays, not pat everyone on the back for getting the obvious correct. A lot of backgammon is 'forced'. I don't want to do a study nor do I care of the results, but if you took a handful or two of solid players and ran them through X amount of games, what % of plays do you think they'd agree on without any real reflection?

Stick ... still wondering where you wanted me to stop to ask for your vote.

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