Hi,
her is an example for a big pruning mistake
regards
Theo
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The score (after 4 games) is: Piktout 1, RedTop 5 (match to 15 points)
Match Information:
Piktout's rating: 1930.81 (Exp 2645)
RedTop's rating: 1879.84 (Exp 5597)
Date: Oktober 31, 2004
Place: GamesGrid Games Server
Move number 35: X to play 51
GNU Backgammon Position ID: mK+FBQL7uwEAQA
Match ID : QYnmARAAKAAA
+13-14-15-16-17-18------19-20-21-22-23-24-+ O: Piktout (Cube: 2)
| O O O | | O O | 1 point
| O | | O O |
| | | O |
| | | O |
| | | O |
v| |BAR| | 15 point match
| | | 7 |
| | | X |
| | | X X |
| O | | X X X X | Rolled 51
| O O | X | O X X X X | 5 points
+12-11-10--9--8--7-------6--5--4--3--2--1-+ X: RedTop
Pip counts: O 130, X 58
* RedTop moves bar/20 2/1
Rolled 51 (-0.282):
* 1. Cubeful 2-ply bar/20 2/1 Eq.: -0.236
0.452 0.182 0.001 - 0.548 0.034 0.000
2. Cubeful 2-ply bar/20 3/2 Eq.: -0.317 ( -0.081)
0.423 0.187 0.001 - 0.577 0.042 0.000
3. Cubeful 0-ply bar/20 4/3 Eq.: -0.456 ( -0.220)
0.367 0.154 0.000 - 0.633 0.033 0.000
Annotation:
KitWoolsey: not close to a recube -- not clear who is favorite
Output generated Thu Nov 04 14:28:07 2004
by GNU Backgammon 0.14-devel (Text Export version 1.68)
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The score (after 4 games) is: Piktout 1, RedTop 5 (match to 15 points)
Move number 35: X on roll, cube decision?
GNU Backgammon Position ID: mK+FBQL7uwEAQA
Match ID : QQngARAAKAAA
+13-14-15-16-17-18------19-20-21-22-23-24-+ O: Piktout (Cube: 2)
| O O O | | O O | 1 point
| O | | O O |
| | | O |
| | | O |
| | | O |
v| |BAR| | 15 point match
| | | 7 |
| | | X |
| | | X X |
| O | | X X X X | On roll
| O O | X | O X X X X | 5 points
+12-11-10--9--8--7-------6--5--4--3--2--1-+ X: RedTop
Pip counts: O 130, X 58
* RedTop moves bar/20 2/1
Alert: very bad move ( -0.621)
Rolled 51 (-0.282):
1. Cubeful 2-ply bar/20 3/2 Eq.: +0.384
0.661 0.253 0.000 - 0.339 0.025 0.000
* 2. Cubeful 2-ply bar/20 2/1 Eq.: -0.236 ( -0.621)
0.452 0.182 0.001 - 0.548 0.034 0.000
3. Cubeful 2-ply bar/20 4/3 Eq.: -0.475 ( -0.859)
0.382 0.145 0.001 - 0.618 0.047 0.000
Annotation:
KitWoolsey: not close to a recube -- not clear who is favorite
Output generated Thu Nov 04 13:28:53 2004
by GNU Backgammon 0.14-devel (Text Export version 1.69)