Not intuitive at all...but explanation it makes total sense. I, and likely 99% out there ,would of made the knee-jerk obvious play and never looked back.
The XG rollout says you will win this DMP game about 2% more often -- one extra win in 50 games -- by not making the 2 pt.... provided you play your checkers as well as XG for the rest of the game -- a game that you have just voluntarily complicated for yourself. I would argue that the best DMP play for most (if not all) human players with the white checkers is to just make the 2 pt. (An aside: I get that this position was not from a UBC match, but it's worth noting that the 2 pt. would almost certainly be the correct play as well if this were a UBC match, where PR is significant. After making the 2 you will usually have a long series of easy decisions to pad your PR while your opponent is marooned on the bar with no decisions at all.)
@@allo5668 Here is why PR matters. If you play well, you might win or lose depending on the dice. But if you play well, in the long run, you will win a lot more. So the better you play the more you will win. Not in the short run. Not in a single game, but overall. This have been proven without question. Why do you try to get better at anything? First, you will do better. You will win more. Second, because it is fun and challenging to get better. Don't you believe the person who hits the ball better will win more tennis games? More golf matches? Wont the person who trains harder to run faster win more than someone who doesn't. Backgammon is no different.
@@PhilSimborg sure that makes sense. My question was more “why does PR matter in a championship contest?” like UBC. It makes sense that you can use PR to measure your progress, but is it used in rankings in tournaments?
@@allo5668 In the UBC, when you play someone a match, you win 1 point if you win the match and you win 1 point if you have the lower PR. After a long series of matches, total points wins. However, if there is a tie, the one with the lower PR wins. Several tournaments have side events that work in a similar fashion so that PR is rewarded. Of course, the better player has a much better chance of winning when PR is included, and as you can see from this event, and others, the very best players almost always get to the finals. Mochy was the clear favorite coming in to this tournament, and he won. His opponent Zdenek, was very highly ranked and he took second. The other two semi-finalists were also very highly ranked. So again, this is more proof that backgammon is a game of skill. In the long run, the players with lower PR's also won more matches.
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Not intuitive at all...but explanation it makes total sense. I, and likely 99% out there ,would of made the knee-jerk obvious play and never looked back.
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The XG rollout says you will win this DMP game about 2% more often -- one extra win in 50 games -- by not making the 2 pt.... provided you play your checkers as well as XG for the rest of the game -- a game that you have just voluntarily complicated for yourself. I would argue that the best DMP play for most (if not all) human players with the white checkers is to just make the 2 pt.
(An aside: I get that this position was not from a UBC match, but it's worth noting that the 2 pt. would almost certainly be the correct play as well if this were a UBC match, where PR is significant. After making the 2 you will usually have a long series of easy decisions to pad your PR while your opponent is marooned on the bar with no decisions at all.)
Very insightful!
Why does PR matter? If you win you win no?
@@allo5668 Here is why PR matters. If you play well, you might win or lose depending on the dice. But if you play well, in the long run, you will win a lot more. So the better you play the more you will win. Not in the short run. Not in a single game, but overall. This have been proven without question. Why do you try to get better at anything? First, you will do better. You will win more. Second, because it is fun and challenging to get better. Don't you believe the person who hits the ball better will win more tennis games? More golf matches? Wont the person who trains harder to run faster win more than someone who doesn't. Backgammon is no different.
@@PhilSimborg sure that makes sense. My question was more “why does PR matter in a championship contest?” like UBC.
It makes sense that you can use PR to measure your progress, but is it used in rankings in tournaments?
@@allo5668 In the UBC, when you play someone a match, you win 1 point if you win the match and you win 1 point if you have the lower PR. After a long series of matches, total points wins. However, if there is a tie, the one with the lower PR wins. Several tournaments have side events that work in a similar fashion so that PR is rewarded. Of course, the better player has a much better chance of winning when PR is included, and as you can see from this event, and others, the very best players almost always get to the finals. Mochy was the clear favorite coming in to this tournament, and he won. His opponent Zdenek, was very highly ranked and he took second. The other two semi-finalists were also very highly ranked. So again, this is more proof that backgammon is a game of skill. In the long run, the players with lower PR's also won more matches.
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