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Math of backgammon

Posted By: Rich Munitz
Date: Wednesday, 8 December 2010, at 2:30 p.m.

In Response To: Math of backgammon (Sebastiaan Kuijs)

How did you manage to memorize the multiplication table for small numbers? Repetition. And knowing exact numbers is not so important. If you just remember which scores are high or low or very high or very low, you'll be mostly there.

General rule of thumb is that any result that wins the match exactly or puts a player at Crawford is particularly more valuable. Getting to 2-away is particularly less valuable.

Messages In This Thread

• Math of backgammon
  Sebastiaan Kuijs -- Wednesday, 8 December 2010, at 1:04 p.m.
  • Math of backgammon
    Rich Munitz -- Wednesday, 8 December 2010, at 2:30 p.m.
    • Math of backgammon
      Chuck Bower -- Wednesday, 8 December 2010, at 3:45 p.m.
      • Math of backgammon
        Rich Munitz -- Wednesday, 8 December 2010, at 5:15 p.m.
        • Math of backgammon
          Sebastiaan Kuijs -- Thursday, 9 December 2010, at 9:02 a.m.
  • Good book for mental 'rithmetic...
    Chuck Bower -- Wednesday, 8 December 2010, at 3:50 p.m.
  • Another important book
    Chuck Bower -- Thursday, 9 December 2010, at 1:53 p.m.
    • The best book
      Bob Koca -- Thursday, 9 December 2010, at 4:21 p.m.
      • The best book
        Tom Keith -- Thursday, 9 December 2010, at 4:32 p.m.
      • The best book
        Chuck Bower -- Thursday, 9 December 2010, at 5:33 p.m.
        • The best book
          Bob Glass -- Friday, 10 December 2010, at 2:20 a.m.
  • Math of backgammon
    Kye Hedlund -- Thursday, 9 December 2010, at 6:27 p.m.
    • Math of backgammon - with tables formatted
      Kye Hedlund -- Thursday, 9 December 2010, at 6:33 p.m.
      • Math of backgammon - with tables formatted
        Stick -- Thursday, 9 December 2010, at 8:52 p.m.
        • squaring the circle
          svilo -- Friday, 10 December 2010, at 5:05 a.m.
          • squaring the circle
            Rich Munitz -- Friday, 10 December 2010, at 6:06 p.m.
            • squaring the circle
              svilo -- Friday, 10 December 2010, at 9:06 p.m.
              • squaring the circle
                Bob Koca -- Friday, 10 December 2010, at 9:17 p.m.
                • squaring the circle
                  svilo -- Friday, 10 December 2010, at 9:55 p.m.
                  • squaring the circle
                    Rich Munitz -- Saturday, 11 December 2010, at 1:21 a.m.
                    • squaring the circle
                      svilo -- Sunday, 12 December 2010, at 5:39 a.m.
                      • Squaring the ironed circle
                        Daniel Murphy -- Sunday, 12 December 2010, at 4:00 p.m.
              • squaring the circle
                Daniel Murphy -- Friday, 10 December 2010, at 11:30 p.m.
                • squaring the circle
                  svilo -- Saturday, 11 December 2010, at 7:22 a.m.
                  • squaring the circle
                    Timothy Chow -- Saturday, 11 December 2010, at 7:46 p.m.