Thanks mitchy! Its amazing to watch you to play with your comments? I have a question for you? How can we know when we should double? Is there any percentage about pip differences? Thanks again.
@@MichyBG Yes Jamaica was great fun. One of the highlights was getting to know Akiko, sho is also wonderful. I will be going to Miami and hope you can make it too!
Thanks for the video, Michy! Regarding the position at 24:00, although I am no grandmaster, what I notice is that Yellow's 8-pt is stripped after the best play. To my eyes, I prefer to have the checker on the 6-pt, and to be prepared to bring my 8-pt home in a few rolls. But I don't believe this could fully explain the size of the error.
I agree with you. Yellow does not need to have three checkers on the 8 point. I also found this fact: Yellow will get a shot after Red's 11 12 22 if Yellow choses 21/16 11/8. However Yellow will get a shot after Red's 11 12 13 14 22 23 if Yellow choses the best play, 21/18 11/6.
They advertised on Facebook. They confirmed the date of Japan Championship is 3-5 May 2025. Please come to Japan! My 3 British friends already bought the tickets for Japan Championship next year.
@@MichyBG see you in Tokyo for the matches :) I really would like to play you if not possible directly let's play an online or you can visit Beautiful Akita :)
Although I am ALWAYS delighted at the opportunity to watch Michi play... ...I am saddened at the loss of his contemporaneous commentary. 🙁 Thanks for the great content, Michi! 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you Michy another hugely helpful video! But I didn't quite hear what your name is for the 18 point anchor when the opponent has made their 5 point anchor?
Great video sensei! It's such a pleasure to learn from your commentary on these matches. Nice that you're finally having some good luck in the UKBGF league.
Well, you had good dice in this match. Good playing as well. I am learning a lot about backgammon through your opening concepts and end game books. Proverbs help one to learn more easily.
Thank you! If both pip counts are the same, the roller usually have a 60% winning chance. Here he has 1 pip lead with better structure. That's why I estimated 65%.
@@MichyBG Hi Michy. That's fascinating. Do you think you could ever make a video about estimating winning chances? With tips and tricks like the one you just mentioned?
Thanks for sharing, Michy! I appreciated seeing the results in MWC at the end. I hope to see the backgammon community bring more visibility to this form of analysis in the coming years. I believe both EMG and MWC have their place, but I feel like MWC analysis is greatly neglected, leading to many common misconceptions about the game.
@@MichyBG To determine who performed better in the match, I believe MWC is a much better indicator. Whether we like it or not, the cube level and the score have a tremendous impact on the gravity of our errors. Normalized Equity does not reflect this. However, I believe EMG is the better tool for learning from one's errors.
@@MichyBG Yes, I have noticed that rising noise levels and PA announcements are becoming the acceptable norm. Seems out of place to me in a 'mind sports' event.
There are a couple of reasons which are against hitting: - We secured the advanced anchor. - We are okay in the race. - The opponent can establish an anchor with 5s, instead of 6s. - Generally, making a point is better than hitting loose.
Please should the checker play analysis more. I get it were supposed to think, but I can't see how the play I thought was right vs the correct play that fast.
Some crazy dices here, the 65 lol and the two times Mr Cross wasn't able to fill that board, I enjoyed the match ty Mr Michy for sharing and uploading. I like the ones with XG and I have to admit I become scary good at BG just by watching, when in doubt I just make the XG move ( I always think like: what would XG do ? )and its mostly right. But I would have run with the 5/2 which was a pretty big mistake and this moments are very teachable by seeing the XG evaluation.
