I loved your video, thank you very much for sharing. Congratulations on your accomplishments in the ABT! There was one thing that I wanted to point out at 11:00. This table is the reason that I feel like it should become standard notation to write dice rolls with a hyphen between the numbers, i.e. 1-1 and not 11. Note that the importance of this distinction is clearly displayed in the first entry under the right two columns of the table. The columns begin the same way, but have greatly different meanings. Although we can very easily deduce the proper way to understand the table (and you point it right out), it just seems so much more simple or intuitive to me to use a hyphen. I see it written that way sometimes, but I wish it were more widely adopted. Anyway, please don't be offended by my nit-pickiness. I'm clearly just a nerd with a pet peeve, but I figured it was worth mentioning all the same.
Hi Mackenzie, I totally hear you on this point. I have thought a lot about this myself over the past 7 years of learning and communicating backgammon. Honestly, in my personal opinion, I have decided that it is best *without* the hyphen. I say this because almost always it is quite clear from context, and it saves so much extra characters and just looks a lot more elegant in the long run. Including in the example you cited from the video: I think it is quite clear from context what he is referring to, and the hyphen seems quite superfluous to me if we were to insist on it in ALL the BG literature. Just my two cents, but I totally understand your personal taste and appreciate the comment!
I just count who has the least backcheckers, he is the one ahead in the race. Cause: backcheckers have to run furthest, and get the most resistance. Then again i am only an intermediate :-)
If you have a three point board, and your opponent is on the bar, he has a 75% chance of entering. For example, assume the three points you have covered are your 6,5, and 4 points. The only nine rolls for your opponent that keep him from NOT entering are 66, 55, 44, 65, 56, 64, 46, 54, and 45. Thus, the other 27 shots allow him to enter. 27/36 = .75
first scenario shows 1 checker on the bar, on a three point board you can expect to come in on the first roll (100%, not 25%). He is a mathmagician alright.
