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Let's Be Consistent -- An Error is an Error
Posted By: Coolrey In Response To: Let's Be Consistent -- An Error is an Error (Bill Riles)
Date: Monday, 20 July 2009, at 8:39 p.m.
Clever post, Bill.
I reside on the flip side of this coin, however. Many is the time when I have been evaluated by Gnubg to have played Awful! with respect to the cube due to ONE cube mistake. Maybe I was taking a sip of my coffee or answering a question by my gf and hit the roll button online.
However a couple of examples from matches that I played live under pressure sitations were these:
I played Kit Woolsey in the finals of the 2003 Nevada State Championship... and the end result on Snowie 4 was I played 4.low, and he played 4.high. So even though I lost I outplayed him by a bit. I don't remember the checker play ERs, but the cube stood out to me. Kit made 3 blunder passes of my doubles, one of which was NO DOUBLE/take. I was up in the match when Kit split his back men, I rolled 55 and pointed on him and he fanned. His shoulders slumped slightly and he sighed audibly. I figured it was a little early and didn't really want to give away the cube there but his deflated reaction seemed very real to me and I decided to add insult to injury. He passed that cube for about a .350 blunder, for my double was a blunder itself for both score and positional reasons. However, I reacted to live clues that Kit supplied to me OTB, and profited greatly. I do not think I should absorb a blunder... and maybe he should have the size of my blunder added to his! I don't really know, but it seems fair at least not to be charged with a blunder there.
Later I made two cube errors by taking "passes" v. Kit. One was 1.03 and the other 1.06. I sort of doubt that even Kit played them perfectly and got the same equity out of them as the bot would, though the results would argue against me since I got gammoned in BOTH instances! So, I lost 8 points on my two small errors, while he sacrificed about half a point on his blunders. If I had not been "docked" points for a bad double then the ER in the evaluation would have been closer to right, for I outplayed him in regards to the cube handling... Despite the results.
In Monte Carlo in 2006 I reached the final 8 and played again 4.high. But I learned that my opponent who played over 10ER would pass takes, and in fact he passed a couple of no doubles. I was sending them over, and people watching the live stream video online were commenting that I was "reading" my man well. Shouldn't my ER have been less? I submit that even though you can point to a double being wrong if it provokes a bad pass from your opponent, then you ought to get credit for knowing what you were doing even if you didn't know. You most surely will get docked still when you make a bad double and the guy takes it as he should, but there may be something else at work if the guy passes and the doubler evidently had some inclination about his opponents fears and concerns, his current "state of mind" if you will.
Mochy stole a point in a position nobody here could even believe was a double. His POWERFUL, world renown, world class opponent PASSED that double. I for one give Mochy all the credit there. He should not have been dinged and that would give us a greater appreciation for his actual skills by lowering his already low ER even lower!
Congratulations, Mochy... World Champion-San
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