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If your online opponent makes the top play, he's cheating unless he is Nack

Posted By: Chris Yep
Date: Saturday, 28 February 2015, at 6:50 p.m.

In Response To: If your online opponent makes the top play, he's cheating unless he is Nack (Timothy Chow)

That's true. According to David, the match happened sometime in the 1990s.

The Woolsey-Heinrich MET was the most popular MET in the 1990s. It was first published in Inside Backgammon in 1992, though Nack may have known about it a little earlier.





White is Player 2

score: 4
pip: 2
11 point match
pip: 4
score: 3

Blue is Player 1
XGID=--B---------------------b-:2:1:1:00:3:4:0:11:10
Blue on roll, cube action?

eXtreme Gammon Version: 2.19.208.pre-release

It's hard to know for sure what MET Nack considered "technically correct," but if it was the Woolsey-Heinrich MET, the results won't be too different. The match equity of 7-away/4-away is 30% in the Woolsey-Heinrich MET (so D/T = 1.089 in the above position). This compares to 30.08% in the Kazaross XG2 MET and 29.6% in the Jacobs-Trice (elo difference = 0) MET.

I have a few more comments on this topic that I'll post later this weekend.

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