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One back - cube action

Posted By: Chris Bray
Date: Thursday, 2 June 2011, at 12:35 p.m.

In Response To: One back - cube action (David Rockwell)

On a very brief couple of rollouts XG has this as clear double/drop (by 0.034) and Snowie has it as clear double/take (by 0.096).

So the bots disagree by a large margin on the take/drop question as do the humans who have posted their thoughts. So who is right? Tricky game backgammon!

Personally I would always double this as white as I believe a high percentage of opponents would pass and I would be delighted to get a take.

Note that if two of blue's checkers on his 1-pt are moved to make his 5-pt this becomes no double (just)/trivial take

Chris

Messages In This Thread

• One back - cube action
  David Rockwell -- Wednesday, 1 June 2011, at 4:18 p.m.
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    ah_clem -- Wednesday, 1 June 2011, at 4:43 p.m.
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    adambulldog -- Wednesday, 1 June 2011, at 4:57 p.m.
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    mick dyett -- Wednesday, 1 June 2011, at 7:47 p.m.
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    Mr Majestyk -- Wednesday, 1 June 2011, at 10:58 p.m.
    • One back - cube action
      David Rockwell -- Thursday, 2 June 2011, at 1:38 a.m.
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    Timothy Chow -- Thursday, 2 June 2011, at 2:42 a.m.
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    Dmitriy Obukhov -- Thursday, 2 June 2011, at 3:31 a.m.
  • One back - cube action
    Chris Bray -- Thursday, 2 June 2011, at 12:35 p.m.
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      neilkaz -- Thursday, 2 June 2011, at 2:54 p.m.
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      Bob Koca -- Thursday, 2 June 2011, at 3:38 p.m.
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      Casper van der Tak -- Thursday, 2 June 2011, at 4:10 p.m.
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    Keene -- Thursday, 2 June 2011, at 2:45 p.m.
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    Casper van der Tak -- Thursday, 2 June 2011, at 3:33 p.m.
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    Stick -- Thursday, 2 June 2011, at 3:43 p.m.
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    David Rockwell -- Thursday, 2 June 2011, at 6:10 p.m.
    • RO above *NM*
      David Rockwell -- Thursday, 2 June 2011, at 6:10 p.m.
      • However...
        David Rockwell -- Thursday, 2 June 2011, at 6:18 p.m.
        • However...
          Casper van der Tak -- Thursday, 2 June 2011, at 6:53 p.m.
          • RO for Casper
            David Rockwell -- Thursday, 2 June 2011, at 10:17 p.m.
            • Thanks David! *NM*
              Casper van der Tak -- Friday, 3 June 2011, at 6:31 a.m.
        • Very nice variant! *NM*
          Timothy Chow -- Friday, 3 June 2011, at 1:03 a.m.
    • XGR+ RO
      Stick -- Thursday, 2 June 2011, at 10:32 p.m.
      • XGR+ RO
        David Rockwell -- Thursday, 2 June 2011, at 11:37 p.m.