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The True Test of Skill is Duplicate BG
Posted By: Perry Gartner In Response To: The True Test of Skill is Duplicate BG (Bob Koca)
Date: Sunday, 26 September 2010, at 12:22 a.m.
BK: 1) You are just assuming that the RO result gives the best play.
Not necessarily. Any results that appear controversial to a panel of leading experts could be excluding in the contest.
BK: 2) The instant feedback does not exist in real life backgammon.
The format just shows what the player's cube action was, but does not indicate if it was right or wrong. You might be woken up to consider the cube, but that is all you can learn, and that consideration might be all wet.
BK: 3) Playing the opponent is an important backgammon skill. PR does not capture that at all.
It does test your skill against a top expert category player. That skill set is quite important, and if someone scores highest in this quiz, it is doubtful that person's "opponent" skills would lower his ranking by many places.
BK: 4) Suppose that there are two moves that are extremely close. Say for example that you always play an opening 64 as S and the RO says that P is slightly better. Suppose also that you have studied the third roll replies to 64S, X, X and know them all very well. In real life backgammon that knowledge will help you greatly. In your contest not at all. You will be forced by the rules of the contest to play a game that you would never be playing in real life and haven't studied as well. In general you must play the bot's style.
True, except if you are an expert you should know what the bot picks as # 1, and know the best response and third roll to these responses.
BK: 5) From the next email of BK (paraphrased) Clock management is not part of this quiz
True, but the quiz, in writing, can be given over a total time period which can be crafted to be challenging, and the contestants will need to decide how to allocate their time, but they will be able to go back to problems later and spend unused time on them. I agree this is not nearly the same as the time consequences when playing but it is something.
BK:) Is PR calculated in the optimal way?
Please clarify what you mean by optimal if my response is not to the point. Pr is calculated by adding up the differences between your plays and the best candidate plays. The contestant with the lowest PR wins.
Perry
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