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Cubeless bakgammon
Posted By: Phil Simborg In Response To: Cubeless bakgammon (Leonardo Jerkovic)
Date: Wednesday, 14 April 2010, at 10:16 a.m.
Very different.
First, many checker plays will change because the cube is out of play. In fact, I don't believe we can even use the current bots to tell us the right plays. The bots only know match play where the cube is in play, Crawford, where there is a score and the cube is out of play, and DMP where the cube is out of play. I don't believe you can put in a position where the score is 2away/4away and tell the bot to tell you how to make the right play at that score if there is no cube. Yes, it gives you a cubeless equity for plays and you can interpolate from that, but sometimes the right play is correct in order that you may give a cube on the next roll, or be able to take the cube on the next roll.
Secondly, many of your moves should change according to the score, but not in the same way it would if there is a cube.
Of course, the lack of backgammons could change strategy for all games where backgammons are possible but don't count triple, and it will certainly allow people to stay back for the last shot more often, so playing back games will be far more effective and less risky and you will win many more of those games and get gammoned less as a result of being able to wait for the shot on the last roll.
And of course, the most obvious change in the game is that there is no cube strategy, and that makes the game far less complex and takes away one of the major skill-factors.
I have played your game many times (for money) with players from your part of the world (primarily people from Greece and Turkey) and it is enjoyable. It is still a good game and fun to play, but once you are used to playing with the cube, playing without it is like going to a 3D movie without the glasses.
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