Celebrating 13 years in backgammon games

Cubes After an Endgame Hit

by Walter Trice
21 August 2009


Walter Trice

Backgammon is a game of twists, turns, and reversals. You have never surely won a contact position until the last checker is borne off, and a devastating attack that seems certain to lead to a gammon win can still be thwarted by a late hit from the bar.

The problems that result don't seem to get the attention they deserve in the backgammon literature. Doubling decisions that come up under such circumstances can be quite difficult to evaluate in practice.

I have collected and rolled out quite a few of these positions, but I feel like I am still very far from having mastered them as a general class. This article will present just a few cube action problems as an introduction to some thematic ideas.
 

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Subject: Re: Cubes After an Endgame Hit
From: trice
Date: 27 Aug 2009 00:08 EST

Thank you so much Jake...

Walter would have roared with laughter over your reply to my post on BGonline forum in his name...escaping the final gammon... Sigh, I only wish he did!

A world without Walter is cruel indeed Donna

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