My opponent offered to resign a single game (which many people think
is bad form when gammons are still possible,
So, do you accept the point
know how to do a rollout for a decision like this
I don't get many of these, so I don't have much practice, and I don't
know how to query XG to get a ruling.
I'm behind 4 to 5 in a match to 7 with a lot of gammon chances but a
fair number of losses. My opponent offered to resign a single game
(which many people think is bad form when gammons are still possible,
but my opinion is that it's a valid prop in situations like this.
So, do you accept the point and go to (basically) DMP or play on for the gammon?
And if you know how to do a rollout for a decision like this, please
post. Thanks.
XGID=aDC-Aa-------ac--cbb-b----:0:0:-1:00:4:5:0:7:10
X:You O:O
Score is X:4 O:5 7 pt.(s) match.
+12-11-10--9--8--7-------6--5--4--3--2--1-+
| O O O O | | O O |
| O O O | | O O |
| O O | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| |BAR| |
| | O | |
| | | X |
| | | X X |
| | | X X |
| | | O X X X |
+13-14-15-16-17-18------19-20-21-22-23-24-+
Pip count X: 14 O: 148 X-O: 4-5/7
Cube: 1
O on roll, cube action
eXtreme Gammon Version: 2.10, MET: Kazaross XG2This "offer" isn't legal play.
A standard rollout for your opponent shows that her equity is about
-1.6, far below -1, with about 70 per cent of the games getting
gammoned. Now if you accept the illegal resignation, you are trading 1
point for 1.6 points. Yes, from your point of view it will often (after
the gammons) be -1/-2 Crawford, whereas after accepting the resignation
it will be -2/-2. So you are waisting the potential free drop.
As you said, if ah_clem wins a gammon, it will be -1/-2 *Crawford*
(or gammon save) and not -1/-2 *post-Crawford*, when he would indeed
have a free drop.
XGID=aDC-Aa-------ac--cbb-b----:0:0:-1:00:4:5:0:7:10
X:You O:O
Score is X:4 O:5 7 pt.(s) match. +12-11-10--9--8--7-------6--5--4--3--2--1-+
| O O O O | | O O | | O O O | | O O | | O O | | | | | | |
| | | |
| |BAR| |
| | O | |
| | | X |
| | | X X | | | | X X | | | | O X X X | +13-14-15-16-17-18------19-20-21-22-23-24-+
Pip count X: 14 O: 148 X-O: 4-5/7
Cube: 1
O on roll, cube action
On 6/3/2023 2:00 PM, ah....Clem wrote:
XGID=aDC-Aa-------ac--cbb-b----:0:0:-1:00:4:5:0:7:10
X:You O:O
Score is X:4 O:5 7 pt.(s) match.
+12-11-10--9--8--7-------6--5--4--3--2--1-+
| O O O O | | O O |
| O O O | | O O |
| O O | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| |BAR| |
| | O | |
| | | X |
| | | X X |
| | | X X |
| | | O X X X |
+13-14-15-16-17-18------19-20-21-22-23-24-+
Pip count X: 14 O: 148 X-O: 4-5/7
Cube: 1
O on roll, cube action
No rollout because Axel and Tim have already given enough numbers to see that accepting this resign is a blunder. Thanks.
I had to think a bit, but decided that there were enough gammons to be
had and that if hit there's still a lot of game left - with 7 checkers
off, even if O manages a closeout X is still about 40% to win.
I declined, O shook a 64 to to his, but I eventually straggled home for
the single point win.
This was on FIBS, where there's no rule about when and how to offer a resignation, other than if it will end the match it's automatically accepted.
On 6/3/2023 2:00 PM, ah....Clem wrote:
XGID=aDC-Aa-------ac--cbb-b----:0:0:-1:00:4:5:0:7:10
X:You O:O
Score is X:4 O:5 7 pt.(s) match.
+12-11-10--9--8--7-------6--5--4--3--2--1-+
| O O O O | | O O |
| O O O | | O O |
| O O | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| |BAR| |
| | O | |
| | | X |
| | | X X |
| | | X X |
| | | O X X X |
+13-14-15-16-17-18------19-20-21-22-23-24-+
Pip count X: 14 O: 148 X-O: 4-5/7
Cube: 1
O on roll, cube action
No rollout because Axel and Tim have already given enough numbers to see that accepting this resign is a blunder. Thanks.
I had to think a bit, but decided that there were enough gammons to be
had and that if hit there's still a lot of game left - with 7 checkers
off, even if O manages a closeout X is still about 40% to win.
I declined, O shook a 64 to to his, but I eventually straggled home for
the single point win.
This was on FIBS, where there's no rule about when and how to offer a resignation, other than if it will end the match it's automatically accepted.
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