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Did you hear the one about the backgammon masterclass given by Paul Epstein?

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by: peps...@gmail.com - Fri, 22 Dec 2023 17:05 UTC

The class had an obvious lesson that would have been interesting to
weak players only.
Here I played correctly to save the gammon whenever XG rolls non-doubles.
The max-crossover play loses a gammon on 44.

Paul

XGID=-FBC-B---A-A------------d-:1:1:1:53:6:4:0:11:10
X:Daniel O:XG Roller+

Score is X:6 O:4 11 pt.(s) match.
+13-14-15-16-17-18------19-20-21-22-23-24-+
| | | O |
| | | O |
| | | O |
| | | O |
| | | |
| |BAR| |
| | | 6 |
| | | X |
| | | X X | +---+
| | | X X X X | | 2 |
| X X | | X X X X | +---+
+12-11-10--9--8--7-------6--5--4--3--2--1-+
Pip count X: 49 O: 4 X-O: 6-4/11
Cube: 2, X own cube
X to play 53

1. 4-ply 11/8 9/4 eq:-1.188
Player: 0.00% (G:0.00% B:0.00%)
Opponent: 100.00% (G:16.67% B:0.00%)

2. 4-ply 11/6 9/6 eq:-1.214 (-0.026)
Player: 0.00% (G:0.00% B:0.00%)
Opponent: 100.00% (G:18.98% B:0.00%)

3. 3-ply 11/6 5/2 eq:-1.266 (-0.078)
Player: 0.00% (G:0.00% B:0.00%)
Opponent: 100.00% (G:23.59% B:0.00%)

4. 3-ply 11/3 eq:-1.266 (-0.078)
Player: 0.00% (G:0.00% B:0.00%)
Opponent: 100.00% (G:23.59% B:0.00%)

5. 1-ply 9/4 5/2 eq:-1.537 (-0.349)
Player: 0.02% (G:0.00% B:0.00%)
Opponent: 99.98% (G:47.62% B:0.00%)

eXtreme Gammon Version: 2.10, MET: Kazaross XG2

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