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Running Count

Posted By: Stick
Date: Friday, 20 May 2011, at 11:58 p.m.

In Response To: Running Count (Liam)

The count we keep is not an absolute count, it's is a relative count. In other words as in the diagram below keeping count as Blue I'm -4 before the roll. That's all that is in my head, -4, not 159/163. After the roll is played 24/14* by my opponent I will lose 10 pips for the roll itself and 14 pips from the checker being hit or a total of 24 pips so I go from -4 to +20 (-4 + 24). When a checker is hit you always lose the amount of pips equal to the point you were on from your opponent's perspective.

		White is Player 1 score: 0 pip: 163 Unlimited Game Jacoby Beaver pip: 159 score: 0 Blue is Player 2
XGID=-b----E-C--AeD---bAdb---A-:0:0:-1:64:0:0:3:0:10
White to play 64

Messages In This Thread

• Running Count
  Liam -- Friday, 20 May 2011, at 11:34 p.m.
  • Running Count
    Stick -- Friday, 20 May 2011, at 11:58 p.m.
    • Running Count
      Bob Koca -- Saturday, 21 May 2011, at 1:41 a.m.
      • That's a nice one! *NM*
        Carlo Melzi -- Saturday, 21 May 2011, at 6:56 a.m.
      • Running Count
        Casper van der Tak -- Saturday, 21 May 2011, at 8:25 a.m.
      • Running Count
        Stick -- Saturday, 21 May 2011, at 9:29 a.m.
      • Running Count
        Matt Cohn-Geier -- Sunday, 22 May 2011, at 7:54 a.m.
        • Running Count
          Timothy Chow -- Monday, 23 May 2011, at 12:36 a.m.
          • Running Count
            Matt Cohn-Geier -- Monday, 23 May 2011, at 5:06 a.m.
            • Running Count
              Stick -- Monday, 23 May 2011, at 7:04 a.m.
  • Running Count
    Timothy Chow -- Saturday, 21 May 2011, at 12:02 a.m.