Janowski's Formulas - Part 1

by Douglas Zare
22 May 2002

Douglas Zare

Rick Janowski has created many formulas relevant to backgammon. In this article we will look at the Janowski take point formula for money play. You probably wouldn't find it directly useful over the board, but Snowie does. Janowski's take point formula is useful for converting cubeless estimates of gammon and normal wins to estimates of cubeful equity, hence it helps to understand rollouts from backgammon programs and the gammon price. As we work toward Janowski's take point formula, we will see the continuous limit model of backgammon and cube liveliness
 

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Feedback about this article:

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Subject: Re: Janowski's Formulas - Part 1

From: Michael Crane   

Date: 23 May 2002 10:47 EST

Douglas, I see that the PDF link goes to MY Mind Sports Olympiad web pages. Nice of you to use it. How about a mention of the hard work put into the file from both the MSO web team and myself? :-)

Michael Crane

Reference: R. Janowski, (Note: In PDF) Take-Points in Money Games.

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Subject: Re: Janowski's Formulas - Part 1

From: Michael Crane   

Date: 24 May 2002 05:48 EST

:-)

Michael

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Subject: Re: Janowski's Formulas - Part 1

From: qwerrk   

Date: 29 May 2002 13:19 EST

Doug,

Another interesting article, but unfortunately it's just the type of stuff that tends to screw up my over the board play....that is to say, good stuff, but extremely hard to get any benefit from it in real matches.

Hoping that maybe Part II (and a couple re-reads of Part I) will help crystalize the concepts.

thx, cioa4now

Thomas

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