Last roll cubes

This week I played a lot of matches versus lower-rated players to see if I can spot some recurring errors. I found a couple of areas where those players usually had problems finding the best move.

In the next few posts I will try to explain what went wrong and how to choose the best play, and I hope it will be useful to you.

But, first things first - let's see the answers for the positions from the last post.

Bear-off cubes

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In the first month there were seven posts, almost 2.000 pageviews and 65 comments. Knowing that there are people out there who read this is really encouraging!

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I hope you'll continue to visit this blog and you'll find posts instructive and helpful – I'll do my best.

Last time we talked about some backgammon probabilities and today we'll see how those shortcuts can help us calculate correct cube decisions in bear-off positions.

Calculating probabilities

I'm glad to see there were no problems with the positions from the last time.
The only "trick" was to notice the cube has been turned in 1st and 3rd example, so those positions are no redoubles (but they would be initial doubles).
Second example was double/pass.

Before we continue to our next problems, couple of words about backgammon probabilities.