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Clock Experiment

Posted By: Jason Lee
Date: Friday, 16 January 2009, at 5:18 p.m.

In Response To: Clock Experiment (Chuck Bower)

The linear "two minutes per matchpoint" has always been suspect in my mind. In November when I was frantically writing up my clock data (see Backgammon Galore site where it's posted if you haven't read it already) I also had plans for a second paper on match time durations as a function of match length. Unfortunately this takes a lot of data and I just didn't have that. So for now we're all left wondering. Meanwhile we seem to have nothing better to implement than the current linear allotment.

How about as a rough measure of length, we use the total number of moves? I think that the time to play a match should roughly correspond to that. There are plenty of databases we could use.

JLee

Messages In This Thread

• Clock Experiment
  Dan Pelton -- Friday, 16 January 2009, at 6:30 a.m.
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    Jason Lee -- Friday, 16 January 2009, at 7:41 a.m.
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    Chuck Bower -- Friday, 16 January 2009, at 2:23 p.m.
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      Jason Lee -- Friday, 16 January 2009, at 5:18 p.m.
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        neilkaz -- Friday, 16 January 2009, at 6:18 p.m.
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          Rich Munitz -- Friday, 16 January 2009, at 10:12 p.m.
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          Dan Pelton -- Saturday, 17 January 2009, at 2:15 a.m.
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        Sam Pottle -- Friday, 16 January 2009, at 7:26 p.m.
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      Dale Kerr -- Saturday, 17 January 2009, at 3:52 a.m.
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        Rich Munitz -- Saturday, 17 January 2009, at 5:07 a.m.
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        Chuck Bower -- Wednesday, 21 January 2009, at 3:22 p.m.