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Mini-manifesto on evils of PR gammon.

Posted By: Bob Koca
Date: Wednesday, 27 May 2026, at 8:04 p.m.

In Response To: Mini-manifesto on evils of PR gammon. (Chuck Bower)

"the cost of an error as far as match winning chances, is magnified at late matchscores. I don't think this is reflected in the current standard of 'PR'"

You didn't explicitly say so, but I am guessing you think it should be reflected. Is that correct?

Thought experiment. Suppose that a match to 11 is played without the cube or bonus wins counting. The final score is player A 11 and player B 10. Both players played perfectly except for two super blunders by B which turned a win into a loss (for example, with checkers on ace and two point vs 2 on the ace player B played 2/1/off with a 61). Those errors occurred in the first game and the last game of the match.

To me, those errors were exactly equally important to who won the match. Do you agree?

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