Sunday, August 13, 2006

Poker is old. Backgammon is new.

I've been playing a lot of Backgammon lately.
I had a game recently where I had a very lucky roll.
The score (after 2 games) is: Paul_William 0, You 2 (match to 3 points), Crawford game
Match Information:


Very Lucky
Move number 46: X to play 44

 GNU Backgammon  Position ID: 754jAABuuwEAcA
                 Match ID   : 8AlyAAAAEAAA
 +13-14-15-16-17-18------19-20-21-22-23-24-+     O: Paul_William
 |             O    |   |    O     O  O  O |     0 points
 |                  |   |    O     O  O  O |     
 |                  |   |    O     O  O  O |     
 |                  |   |          O     O |     
 |                  |   |                  |    
v|                  |BAR|                  |     3 point match (Cube: 1)
 |                  |   |                  |    
 |                  |   |                  |     
 |                  | X |    X        X    |     
 |                  | X | X  X  X  X  X    |     Rolled 44
 |                  | X | X  X  X  X  X    |     2 points
 +12-11-10--9--8--7-------6--5--4--3--2--1-+     X: You
Pip counts: O 45, X 122

* You moves bar/17* bar/21(2)
Alert: very lucky roll! ( +1.493)

Rolled 44 (+1.493):
*    1. Cubeful 0-ply    bar/17* bar/21(2)            Eq.:  +0.591
       0.797 0.059 0.000 - 0.203 0.034 0.000
     2. Cubeful 0-ply    bar/21(3) 5/1                Eq.:  -0.858 ( -1.449)
       0.078 0.001 0.000 - 0.922 0.234 0.000
     3. Cubeful 0-ply    bar/21(3) 6/2                Eq.:  -0.920 ( -1.511)
       0.048 0.000 0.000 - 0.952 0.268 0.000


Output generated Sun Aug 13 18:02:27 2006
by GNU Backgammon 0.14-mingw (Text Export version 1.70)

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