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Opening roll history

Posted By: Tom Keith
Date: Monday, 17 December 2018, at 6:21 p.m.

In Response To: Opening roll history (Ray Kershaw)

The story goes that in the pre-bot era 10,8 was considered the best play of an opening 53 ...

This is an urban legend. Except for a few authors that have experimented with 10, 8, making the three point has always been the standard play for an opening 5-3. For example Hoyle (1744) writes:

"XIII. Cinq. and Trois, to make the Trois Point in your Table, for a Gammon, or for a Hit."

This advice was repeated many times over the next couple centuries.

Messages In This Thread

• Opening roll history
  Ray Kershaw -- Monday, 17 December 2018, at 5:48 p.m.
  • Opening roll history
    Tom Keith -- Monday, 17 December 2018, at 6:21 p.m.
    • Opening roll history
      Ray Kershaw -- Monday, 17 December 2018, at 8:57 p.m.
      • Opening roll history
        Colin Owen -- Tuesday, 18 December 2018, at 1:22 a.m.
        • Opening roll history
          ah_clem -- Wednesday, 19 December 2018, at 4:26 p.m.
  • History of Opening 53
    Nack Ballard -- Saturday, 22 December 2018, at 11:19 p.m.
    • History of Opening 53, two corrections
      Nack Ballard -- Saturday, 22 December 2018, at 11:47 p.m.
    • History of Opening 53
      Tom Keith -- Sunday, 23 December 2018, at 11:35 p.m.
    • History of Opening 53
      Perry Gartner -- Friday, 28 December 2018, at 11:35 a.m.