Celebrating 11 years in backgammon games

Gammons After Closeouts

by Douglas Zare
1 May 2006


Douglas Zare

In Hoyle's 1745 work, "A Short Treatise On the Game of Back-Gammon," he covered many topics relevant to modern backgammon. In Chapter 7, he asked how likely it is to win a gammon after closing out one checker, when your opponent has 6 checkers to bring in plus the checker on the bar. His answer was that you win about 50% gammons
 

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Celebrating 11 years in backgammon games