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Interesting bearoff 54?

Posted By: Chuck Bower
Date: Friday, 15 April 2011, at 5:19 p.m.

In Response To: Interesting bearoff 54? (Turz)

...Could you please explain a bit more why an extra checker off is in the 9% ballpark?

Hope Kit doesn't mind me quoting nearly verbatim from his Cube Reference Positions book. (Everyone should have this book.)

Assuming opponent has the perfect bearoff structure (closed board with a spare on each of the 4-, 5-, and 6-points) and you have a crashed board (where there is unlikely to be any rolls that don't bear off at least 2 checkers) AND one on the bar, then player with closed board wins (cubeless):

6-off -- 70%

7-off -- 61%

8-off -- 51%

9-off -- 42%

You can see that the difference between neighboring values is 9-10%.

(This table is on page 97. I rounded to the nearest %.)

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