• Nightmare

    From Robert Zimmerman@21:1/5 to All on Tue Apr 18 10:40:34 2023
    Last night I played a tournament match online and lost freakish games. One was a double 6 rolled against a 5 point prime with 3 checkers on the ace point. Yeah, I lost that game. Later I had a checker closed out except for an open 2 point and a blot on
    the 8 point. He rolled 26. Yep, lost that one. Anyway, here's a rather fun highlight from this freak show.
    Bob

    XGID=-BBaBBB----Ac----aCc---g-A:1:-1:1:32:0:7:0:15:10

    Score is X:0 O:7 15 pt.(s) match.
    +13-14-15-16-17-18------19-20-21-22-23-24-+
    | O X | | O O | +---+
    | X | | O O | | 2 |
    | X | | O O | +---+
    | | | O |
    | | X | 7 |
    | |BAR| |
    | | | |
    | | | |
    | O | | |
    | O | | X X X X X |
    | O X | | X X X O X X |
    +12-11-10--9--8--7-------6--5--4--3--2--1-+
    Pip count X: 126 O: 101 X-O: 0-7/15
    Cube: 2, O own cube
    X to play 32

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Timothy Chow@21:1/5 to Robert Zimmerman on Wed Apr 19 00:09:54 2023
    On 4/18/2023 1:40 PM, Robert Zimmerman wrote:
    XGID=-BBaBBB----Ac----aCc---g-A:1:-1:1:32:0:7:0:15:10

    Score is X:0 O:7 15 pt.(s) match.
    +13-14-15-16-17-18------19-20-21-22-23-24-+
    | O X | | O O | +---+
    | X | | O O | | 2 |
    | X | | O O | +---+
    | | | O |
    | | X | 7 |
    | |BAR| |
    | | | |
    | | | |
    | O | | |
    | O | | X X X X X |
    | O X | | X X X O X X |
    +12-11-10--9--8--7-------6--5--4--3--2--1-+
    Pip count X: 126 O: 101 X-O: 0-7/15
    Cube: 2, O own cube
    X to play 32

    Not much can go wrong for X here, so I'd get greedy with the
    banana split bar/22 5/3*, aiming to close out two (or more!)
    of O's checkers.

    ---
    Tim Chow

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Robert Zimmerman@21:1/5 to Robert Zimmerman on Thu Apr 20 07:35:51 2023
    On Tuesday, April 18, 2023 at 1:40:35 PM UTC-4, Robert Zimmerman wrote:
    Last night I played a tournament match online and lost freakish games. One was a double 6 rolled against a 5 point prime with 3 checkers on the ace point. Yeah, I lost that game. Later I had a checker closed out except for an open 2 point and a blot on
    the 8 point. He rolled 26. Yep, lost that one. Anyway, here's a rather fun highlight from this freak show.
    Bob

    XGID=-BBaBBB----Ac----aCc---g-A:1:-1:1:32:0:7:0:15:10

    Score is X:0 O:7 15 pt.(s) match. +13-14-15-16-17-18------19-20-21-22-23-24-+
    | O X | | O O | +---+
    | X | | O O | | 2 |
    | X | | O O | +---+
    | | | O |
    | | X | 7 |
    | |BAR| |
    | | | |
    | | | |
    | O | | |
    | O | | X X X X X |
    | O X | | X X X O X X |
    +12-11-10--9--8--7-------6--5--4--3--2--1-+
    Pip count X: 126 O: 101 X-O: 0-7/15
    Cube: 2, O own cube
    X to play 32
    As Tim said, the banana split. It garners more than twice the gammons that it gives up. Unfortunately I didn't see it at the time. Next time...
    Bob

    XGID=-BBaBBB----Ac----aCc---g-A:1:-1:1:32:0:7:0:15:10

    Score is X:0 O:7 15 pt.(s) match.
    +13-14-15-16-17-18------19-20-21-22-23-24-+
    | O X | | O O | +---+
    | X | | O O | | 2 |
    | X | | O O | +---+
    | | | O |
    | | X | 7 |
    | |BAR| |
    | | | |
    | | | |
    | O | | |
    | O | | X X X X X |
    | O X | | X X X O X X |
    +12-11-10--9--8--7-------6--5--4--3--2--1-+
    Pip count X: 126 O: 101 X-O: 0-7/15
    Cube: 2, O own cube
    X to play 32

    1. Rollout¹ Bar/22 5/3* eq:+0.766
    Player: 72.73% (G:37.73% B:0.71%)
    Opponent: 27.27% (G:9.58% B:0.24%)
    Confidence: ±0.019 (+0.747..+0.784) - [100.0%]
    Duration: 26.5 seconds

    2. Rollout¹ Bar/22 18/16 eq:+0.656 (-0.110)
    Player: 72.16% (G:27.09% B:0.51%)
    Opponent: 27.84% (G:5.97% B:0.16%)
    Confidence: ±0.019 (+0.638..+0.675) - [0.0%]
    Duration: 23.2 seconds

    3. Rollout² Bar/22 11/9 eq:+0.638 (-0.127)
    Player: 71.76% (G:26.49% B:0.36%)
    Opponent: 28.24% (G:6.12% B:0.13%)
    Confidence: ±0.017 (+0.621..+0.656) - [0.0%]
    Duration: 24.0 seconds

    eXtreme Gammon Version: 2.10, MET: Kazaross XG2

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)