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Do you have a clue how to play this?

Posted By: Christian Munk-Christensen
Date: Wednesday, 6 May 2009, at 11:21 a.m.

In Response To: Do you have a clue how to play this? (rew)

You can't trust a Gnu rollout where one side has had all 15 checkers sent back.

Gnu simply doesn't know what to do in these situations, something which is very apparent if you play the position against gnu and gnu is playing the backgame side. In these situations Gnu will often start piling its checkers on its own 12 point, and by piling I do really mean piling. I've seen Gnu put 11 checkers on the 12.

Even if gnu somehow manages to build an outside prime it will likely still mess it up.

For the fun of it, I played 10 games yesterday against gnu where gnu has 15 checkers sent back in a 13 backgame. I won 10 out of 10 with 2 singles, 4 Gs and 4 BGs. A strong human would do far better than Gnu in this sort of backgame.

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• Do you have a clue how to play this?
  rew -- Monday, 4 May 2009, at 1:00 p.m.
  • Do you have a clue how to play this?
    John O'Hagan -- Monday, 4 May 2009, at 1:32 p.m.
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    mikeg -- Monday, 4 May 2009, at 2:10 p.m.
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    Keene -- Monday, 4 May 2009, at 2:58 p.m.
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    playBunny -- Monday, 4 May 2009, at 3:02 p.m.
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    David -- Monday, 4 May 2009, at 3:08 p.m.
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    misja -- Monday, 4 May 2009, at 3:28 p.m.
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    Jason Lee -- Monday, 4 May 2009, at 3:36 p.m.
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    Jason Lee -- Monday, 4 May 2009, at 3:39 p.m.
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      Petter Bengtsson -- Monday, 4 May 2009, at 4:14 p.m.
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      Keene -- Monday, 4 May 2009, at 4:34 p.m.
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    Matt Cohn-Geier -- Monday, 4 May 2009, at 8:42 p.m.
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      Jason Lee -- Monday, 4 May 2009, at 10:24 p.m.
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      Chuck Bower -- Monday, 4 May 2009, at 10:30 p.m.
      • Further thought
        Chuck Bower -- Monday, 4 May 2009, at 10:31 p.m.
        • Further thought
          Ian Shaw -- Monday, 4 May 2009, at 10:45 p.m.
          • Further thought
            Matt Cohn-Geier -- Monday, 4 May 2009, at 10:54 p.m.
            • Further thought
              Chuck Bower -- Monday, 4 May 2009, at 11:41 p.m.
              • Further thought
                Matt Cohn-Geier -- Monday, 4 May 2009, at 11:52 p.m.
          • Further thought
            Chuck Bower -- Tuesday, 5 May 2009, at 12:27 a.m.
  • Do you have a clue how to play this?
    Christian Munk-Christensen -- Monday, 4 May 2009, at 10:58 p.m.
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    Rich Munitz -- Tuesday, 5 May 2009, at 4:01 a.m.
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    garyo -- Tuesday, 5 May 2009, at 6:45 a.m.
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    rew -- Tuesday, 5 May 2009, at 10:40 a.m.
    • Do you have a clue how to play this?
      Christian Munk-Christensen -- Wednesday, 6 May 2009, at 11:21 a.m.
      • Do you have a clue how to play this?
        rew -- Wednesday, 6 May 2009, at 11:49 a.m.
        • Do you have a clue how to play this?
          Matt Cohn-Geier -- Wednesday, 6 May 2009, at 12:16 p.m.
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            rew -- Wednesday, 6 May 2009, at 1:27 p.m.
            • Do you have a clue how to play this?
              Matt Cohn-Geier -- Wednesday, 6 May 2009, at 1:33 p.m.
              • Do you have a clue how to play this?
                rew -- Wednesday, 6 May 2009, at 1:52 p.m.
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                  Matt Cohn-Geier -- Wednesday, 6 May 2009, at 1:56 p.m.