Not Open and Shut

by Jake Jacobs
14 August 2013

The Giants converged on Chicago last Memorial Day weekend, for the Chicago Backgammon Open and the Giants Invitational.

After a long weekend, with a format designed to maximize the number of matches played, a few folks emerged as winners, and the others as wieners.

Because of the efforts of Ben Friesen many complete matches were streamed or recorded, and I have a few of those.

But I jotted down many individual positions, and today we will look at some of the interesting ones.

Long-time Chicago player Bill Bartholomay cubed me here in our Open match; leading 2-away, 4-away should I take? Over the board I told myself I needed to win 8 of 36. He misses fifteen times, and six misses are bad for him, but six are above average, and three are great, so I would expect to win fewer than five times if not hit. Which means I would need to win more than three if hit, or better than 15% of the times my blot is picked off. Apparently that open deuce matters more than I thought, and it is a close take.
 

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