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Understanding Backgammon Position #3

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Monday, 18 March 2013, at 11:55 p.m.

In Response To: Understanding Backgammon Position #3 (Igor)

Do you mean "superficial" rather than "superfluous"?

16/11 gives White 15 shots. Her 4's are duplicated to hit and cover, so that reduces the sting of getting hit. If she misses then we should have a strong cube next turn.

If we don't play 16/11, what do we play? Everything leaves a direct shot so 6/1* seems like the only reasonable alternative. But that still leaves 11 shots. Why give White a chance to send another checker back without giving ourselves a chance to solve our biggest problem (clearing our back point)? White is anchored so attacking is not a strong game plan.

16/11 for me.

Messages In This Thread

• Understanding Backgammon Position #3
  Igor -- Monday, 18 March 2013, at 10:41 p.m.
  • Understanding Backgammon Position #3
    Timothy Chow -- Monday, 18 March 2013, at 11:55 p.m.
    • Understanding Backgammon Position #3
      Chase -- Tuesday, 19 March 2013, at 1:37 a.m.
      • Understanding Backgammon Position #3
        lenny -- Tuesday, 19 March 2013, at 2:11 a.m.
      • Understanding Backgammon Position #3
        Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 19 March 2013, at 2:56 a.m.
  • Understanding Backgammon Position #3
    Chase -- Tuesday, 19 March 2013, at 1:32 a.m.
    • Understanding Backgammon Position #3
      Igor -- Tuesday, 19 March 2013, at 1:48 a.m.
  • Understanding Backgammon Position #3
    kinchan -- Tuesday, 19 March 2013, at 5:17 a.m.
    • Understanding Backgammon Position #3
      Igor -- Tuesday, 19 March 2013, at 3:15 p.m.
  • Understanding Backgammon Position #3
    neilkaz -- Tuesday, 19 March 2013, at 4:23 p.m.
  • Understanding Backgammon Position #3
    Chuck Bower -- Tuesday, 19 March 2013, at 8:38 p.m.
    • Understanding Backgammon Position #3
      Igor -- Tuesday, 19 March 2013, at 9:02 p.m.
      • Understanding Backgammon Position #3
        Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 19 March 2013, at 11:24 p.m.
        • Understanding Backgammon Position #3
          Igor -- Tuesday, 19 March 2013, at 11:28 p.m.
          • Understanding Backgammon Position #3
            Matt Cohn-Geier -- Wednesday, 20 March 2013, at 12:07 a.m.
            • Understanding Backgammon Position #3
              Matt Cohn-Geier -- Wednesday, 20 March 2013, at 1:08 a.m.
              • Beautiful mind +1
                svilo -- Wednesday, 20 March 2013, at 2:38 a.m.
          • Understanding Backgammon Position #3
            Timothy Chow -- Wednesday, 20 March 2013, at 12:15 a.m.
  • RO
    Igor -- Tuesday, 19 March 2013, at 11:35 p.m.
    • So, what went wrong?
      Taper_Mike -- Wednesday, 20 March 2013, at 3:04 a.m.
      • So, what went wrong?
        Igor -- Wednesday, 20 March 2013, at 3:28 a.m.
      • So, what went wrong?
        Timothy Chow -- Thursday, 21 March 2013, at 1:14 a.m.
    • RO - Gnubg
      Daniel Murphy -- Wednesday, 20 March 2013, at 3:57 a.m.
  • MCG's analysis
    Timothy Chow -- Wednesday, 20 March 2013, at 11:46 p.m.
    • MCG's analysis
      Matt Cohn-Geier -- Thursday, 21 March 2013, at 4:12 a.m.
      • MCG's analysis
        Timothy Chow -- Thursday, 21 March 2013, at 5:46 p.m.
        • XGR++
          Petter Bengtsson -- Thursday, 21 March 2013, at 5:55 p.m.
        • MCG's analysis
          Matt Cohn-Geier -- Thursday, 21 March 2013, at 6:03 p.m.
          • MCG's analysis
            Timothy Chow -- Thursday, 21 March 2013, at 11:16 p.m.
            • MCG's analysis
              Matt Cohn-Geier -- Friday, 22 March 2013, at 4:53 a.m.
        • Rollouts of Timothy's variations
          Chase -- Thursday, 21 March 2013, at 9:19 p.m.
          • Rollouts of Timothy's variations
            Timothy Chow -- Thursday, 21 March 2013, at 11:09 p.m.
            • Rollouts of Timothy's variations
              Casper van der Tak -- Friday, 22 March 2013, at 12:30 a.m.
            • Rollouts of Timothy's variations
              Timothy Chow -- Friday, 22 March 2013, at 5:05 p.m.