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Cube Decision 2

Posted By: Daniel Murphy
Date: Friday, 7 May 2010, at 5:15 p.m.

In Response To: Cube Decision 2 (Casper van der Tak)

To Tim's question -- yes, the 3 points you can't use with an 8-cube gammon change the value of winning that gammon by a lot. Differently at different scores of course. Compare 16a/16a where that G gains 50% ME, and 13a/16a where it's only worth 38%.

At Max's 13a/19a score, winning 13 points gains % ME compared to dropping 4 points. If you led 16/a19a, winning 16 points would gain 54% compared to dropping 4 points.

Or look what ME winning a single game gets you, and how much extra a gammon is worth. If you win 8 points at Max's score, you are 5a/19% for 95% ME. So winning a gammon's only worth another 5% to you. If you led 8a/19a, winning 8 points would get you 89% Me, and a gammon win would be another 11%.

R-K Table

	-3	-11	-15	-19
-5				95%
-13	7%	41%	58%

Messages In This Thread

• Cube Decision 2
  Max Urban -- Friday, 7 May 2010, at 11:36 a.m.
  • Cube Decision 2
    Chase -- Friday, 7 May 2010, at 12:08 p.m.
  • Cube Decision 2
    Casper van der Tak -- Friday, 7 May 2010, at 12:15 p.m.
    • Cube Decision 2
      Timothy Chow -- Friday, 7 May 2010, at 4:24 p.m.
      • Cube Decision 2
        Casper van der Tak -- Friday, 7 May 2010, at 4:42 p.m.
        • Cube Decision 2
          Daniel Murphy -- Friday, 7 May 2010, at 5:15 p.m.
  • Cube Decision 2
    John O'Hagan -- Friday, 7 May 2010, at 7:53 p.m.