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Containing two checkers

Posted By: Matt Cohn-Geier
Date: Sunday, 9 August 2009, at 3:41 a.m.

In Response To: Containing two checkers (Timothy Chow)

(Had I been in the game, I would probably have been offered extras. Had I accepted extras, I would have lost the game with 70% probability, despite the take being correct. This, by the way, is why I posted a couple of weeks ago about a different way to do extras in chouettes. But I digress.)

If you (or anyone else) would like to play this position as a one-game prop, feel free to pay me a point to take as many 2 cubes as you wish. The more the better. I will be favored to lose on all offered cubes.

Is there a way to reason one's way to the correct solution in such problems? Obviously, knowing the reference positions for containing a single checker is a necessary starting point.

I don't know...but I do know eventually you just get a feel for these things. I would be shocked if this were a proper cube. Passing is megablunderful.

Messages In This Thread

• Containing two checkers
  Timothy Chow -- Saturday, 8 August 2009, at 6:30 p.m.
  • Containing two checkers
    Matt Cohn-Geier -- Sunday, 9 August 2009, at 3:41 a.m.
    • Containing two checkers
      Timothy Chow -- Sunday, 9 August 2009, at 5:18 p.m.
      • Containing two checkers
        Matt Cohn-Geier -- Sunday, 9 August 2009, at 5:23 p.m.
        • Containing two checkers
          Timothy Chow -- Monday, 10 August 2009, at 4:07 a.m.
          • Containing two checkers
            Chuck Bower -- Monday, 10 August 2009, at 2:10 p.m.