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Do I set up 55? What could be more simple?

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Friday, 5 February 2010, at 10:03 p.m.

In Response To: Do I set up 55? What could be more simple? (neilkaz)

I'm afraid I don't know the answer to your first question, but as for your second question—this is not a simple problem. Black has two chances to roll a 1 so the number of ways of bearing off in two rolls is very relevant. And a priori it's not obvious to me that the score doesn't matter, because the cube is not dead.

Next to the opening positions, these late endgame positions are among the most commonly arising positions and they can be quite subtle. Not to mention that they are often critical because the cube can get jacked up in a hurry. I've thought about trying to build a table of them, akin to Stick's table of opening moves, but I haven't yet figured out a way to distill the information down into the most useful form.

Messages In This Thread

• Do I set up 55? What could be more simple?
  neilkaz -- Friday, 5 February 2010, at 8:31 p.m.
  • Do I set up 55? What could be more simple?
    Stick -- Friday, 5 February 2010, at 8:37 p.m.
    • Do I set up 55? What could be more simple?
      Matt Cohn-Geier -- Friday, 5 February 2010, at 10:14 p.m.
  • Do I set up 55? What could be more simple?
    Bob Koca -- Friday, 5 February 2010, at 9:33 p.m.
    • Do I set up 55? What could be more simple?
      Steve Mellen -- Friday, 5 February 2010, at 11:00 p.m.
  • Do I set up 55? What could be more simple?
    Timothy Chow -- Friday, 5 February 2010, at 10:03 p.m.
  • Do I set up 55? What could be more simple?
    Steve Mellen -- Friday, 5 February 2010, at 10:49 p.m.
    • Do I set up 55? What could be more simple?
      Nack Ballard -- Saturday, 6 February 2010, at 4:02 a.m.
      • Do I set up 55? What could be more simple?
        Steve Mellen -- Saturday, 6 February 2010, at 5:28 a.m.
        • Do I set up 55? What could be more simple?
          Nack Ballard -- Saturday, 6 February 2010, at 5:39 a.m.
          • Postscript
            Steve Mellen -- Monday, 8 February 2010, at 6:20 p.m.
            • Postscript
              Bob Koca -- Monday, 8 February 2010, at 8:49 p.m.
            • Postscript
              Nack Ballard -- Tuesday, 9 February 2010, at 7:24 a.m.
      • Do I set up 55? What could be more simple?
        Matt Cohn-Geier -- Saturday, 6 February 2010, at 9:36 a.m.
  • OTB etc
    neilkaz -- Monday, 8 February 2010, at 8:56 p.m.