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Perry Gartner writes:
The Zone idea and 10 in the Zone concept comes from Wilcox Snellings.
Wilcox played at the Coterie in New York in the late 80's and 90's and
that's where he explained it to me and others. He mentions the concept in
one of the articles he published but I can't locate a copy of it at the
moment. He did co-author a unrelated article with Walter Trice in the Flint
Backgammon News in May 1992.
For those that don't know of Wilcox, for many years he was considered one
of the best if not the best in the game, and he was voted tops or close to
the tops in the Giant's poll at the time. He was considered the leading
practitioner in the game of what one might refer to as the "quantitative"
approach as compared to resolution by "concept". He had the uncanny over
the board ability to work out equity estimates of 3 or 4 variations of a
position doing as many as 4 calculations per position. He was among the
first that did extensive work before bots, in determining equities in a
large number of garden variety middle game reference positions. I recall
one year at the Vegas tournament he handed out a quiz, taken by many of the
leading player's there, which required an equity evaluation of each of the
positions on the quiz.
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