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Choose roll vs. double-roll

From:   Rafy Marootians
Address:   rafy@cairo.anu.edu.au
Date:   7 March 1994
Subject:   backgammon varient
Forum:   rec.games.backgammon
Google:   rafy.763046332@cairo

A "gambling" type of hustler once made me an offer I could
not refuse.  We would play a game of backgammon where all the
rules were the same except for this.  On my turns, I would be
allowed to play any move I wanted to except doubles (ie I
could "roll" anything I wanted to) and on his turns he would
play 2 rolls (ie as if he has two goes back to back).

My (and many other BG players) immediate response was "sure I'll play -
I mean how can I loose! Any blot he leaves me I can hit.  I can always
make points in my home board etc etc"

I think if you try this variation of play (not rules) you'll
see that its actually quite hard to win being the player that
can play anything.  It cost me about $5 to find that out
though...:-)

Rafy

Kit Woolsey  writes:

This is an old and very interesting proposition, one which I spent many
profitable hours playing several years ago.  There is quite a lot of
skill involved playing both sides of the proposition.  The call your own
player obviously never misses a shot and easily builds his board.  The
twice in a row player is very effective in races, as you can well
imagine.  If I remember correctly the twice in a row player had a slight
advantage if both players played well, but the advantage wasn't all that
great.  At the time I was perfectly willing to play either side of the
prop, and if my opponent wasn't familiar with the problems involved I was
a virtually certain winner.

Kit
 
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