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Cube strategy against novice who takes aggressively

Posted By: MK
Date: Wednesday, 15 July 2026, at 8:11 a.m.

In Response To: Cube strategy against novice who takes aggressively (Jason Lee)

> What are some strategies to apply against novice players who take very very aggressively.

Why should there be any special strategies for those types of players? Doesn't the "one and only strategy of playing like XG" work...? ;)

> I played a match last night against a guy who took all of these cubes.

An then what happened? I'm guessing that you lost against a "novice" and didn't like it. Otherwise, instead of asking for, you would be giving advice to others about what to do against those "aggressive novice" players?

Can you upload/share the match file or post it here in text format (or email it to me please)?

> Is the advice just, "wait a lot longer to cube players like this," or is there something more subtle or sophisticated to consider?

This subject interests me a lot. I have done many regular-bot vs mutant-bot and regular-bot vs regular-bot experiments (which don't even require any Python scripts) using GnuBG. You can read about my experiments and comments, on the subject in general, at my web site and/or run your own experiments.

https://montanaonline.net/backgammon/py.php

If you share your match file, I would like to see if I can make some comments more specific to you match. (You don't need to engage with me beyond posting/emailing it, if you don't want to.)

MK

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