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Congrats Barry!!

Posted By: Coolrey
Date: Monday, 20 October 2008, at 1:47 p.m.

In Response To: Congrats Barry!! (Stick)

I apologize for I miss-wrote twice. I got the impression listening to you and Neil that you thought Petko played backgames poorly... Maybe you meant he played them alot.

I also stated that your take of Malcolms redouble, (wasn't it a redouble?), was a blunder saurus. Well, I didn't even see the position, but I took the Rockwells out to dinner after the event and David was impressed at how I overcame adversity v. Malcolm. He said in talking to you that you said you knew you were wrong when you took... [or something to that effect]. Now you would do the same thing in the same situation? I believe you, and I will say that is a good litmus test for me also. Would I do the same thing again in a similar situation? The 8 cube I gave you in the match you beat me 18-0 does NOT pass that test! You challenged my double strongly in that match when you led 2-0, then backed down from the bet later and found out my double would have been right at an EVEN score. I have taken more pictures of real time doubles and redoubles than anyone in the ABT over the last 5 years. Bar NONE.

Iancho recorded a TON of matches on Games Grid. I did too... I played on GG for 12 or 13 years before it closed, Iancho was a backgmmon addict and he recorded all the good players and submitted the results to Karsten Nielsen who published them, ranking the best players according to error rates. I think he had a list of like 40 players and somehow I was at the bottom of that list based exclusively on my GG error rate...

Everyone practices differently, but here is how I do it/did it there.

It makes no sense to me to play perfectly against some DF Bozo intermediate on GG for free... What DID make sense to me, and my ultimate GOAL was to play well OTB, with CA$H on the line.

So, lets say I am looking at the play considered in another thread here, like the backgammon problem (for a change) that Chuck posted recently. If I thought 7-5 was right, but I wondered about 20-18... and wanted to see how bad that part of the move was. I would always, 100% play 20-18 and let the bot slap my hand. Lets see if my "feeling" is a mistake, and if so, by how much? Then OTB, I might get a feeling about something and remember getting my hand slapped. Pavlov's doggie style learning.

As for doubling: If I wanted to double, even if I wasn't sure: I doubled. Let's see how bad THIS cube is! I ultimately found, in practice matches, that I wanted to double at 65%, and the bots preferred around 70%. So, the data base of my recorded matches on GG is absoulutely full of EARLY, early EaRlY doubling. It's amazing that I averaged like 5.1 error rate. If gnu had been the judge, it woulda been 7 sumthin!

Then I would go to a tournament and win something.

Petko says: "You play much better live than you do online". Ask him.

I don't keep track anymore but it seems to me that when someone like Bill or Malcolm sends me a match... it is right around 3.3. I can't get my checker play error rate below 3 it seems, I play too pure and I always play to win. I think that is the way to play matches, and the best way to take advantage of OTHER players inaccurate checker plays, especially live. I am trying to learn how to play the checkers better, but it is hard for me to kill one just to avoid shots or gammons.

Let everyone think I play at 5, it's good advertising. Ask me to bet on the cube decisions in our matches too, pretty please?

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