Propositions

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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   Did you find the information in this article useful?           Do you have any comments you'd like to add?

 

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