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In an Ideal World
Posted By: Stick In Response To: In an Ideal World (Matt Ryder)
Date: Thursday, 24 December 2009, at 6:51 a.m.
Very few people know what the hell they're doing even after the very first roll
I'm not sure how you meant this but from what I've seen, very few people know what they're doing even on the first roll unless it's a roll that plays itself.
On this topic, given that nackgammon is a well-respected variant, are there any decent books out there on the subject? I don't know of them. This seems like a gap in the market as a good number of online money games are played with the nackgammon starting configuration.
I was oblivious that a good number of games played online were NG games. (I don't play online for money so it's not surprising) There is little NG literature. Nack and a few other people I know have opening rollouts and even some replies but how much stock you can put into rollouts that early in a nackgammon game is quite suspect. Rollouts also take like 7x as long and have a lot higher variance complicating things further.
To me, more NG information would be books on backgames in general. This has yet to be tackled for the above mentioned reasons and others. NG steers down many roads, regular bg, mutual holding games, etc...all which are covered within' the base confines of regular bg. Seems to me the only missing link is the backgame related aspect.
Stick
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