Last night I played a tournament match online and lost freakish games. One was a double 6 rolled against a 5 point prime with 3 checkers on the ace point. Yeah, I lost that game. Later I had a checker closed out except for an open 2 point and a blot on
the 8 point. He rolled 26. Yep, lost that one. Anyway, here's a rather fun highlight from this freak show.
Bob

XGID=-BBaBBB----Ac----aCc---g-A:1:-1:1:32:0:7:0:15:10

Score is X:0 O:7 15 pt.(s) match.
+13-14-15-16-17-18------19-20-21-22-23-24-+
| O X | | O O | +---+
| X | | O O | | 2 |
| X | | O O | +---+
| | | O |
| | X | 7 |
| |BAR| |
| | | |
| | | |
| O | | |
| O | | X X X X X |
| O X | | X X X O X X |
+12-11-10--9--8--7-------6--5--4--3--2--1-+
Pip count X: 126 O: 101 X-O: 0-7/15
Cube: 2, O own cube
X to play 32

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On 4/18/2023 1:40 PM, Robert Zimmerman wrote:

XGID=-BBaBBB----Ac----aCc---g-A:1:-1:1:32:0:7:0:15:10

Score is X:0 O:7 15 pt.(s) match.
+13-14-15-16-17-18------19-20-21-22-23-24-+
| O X | | O O | +---+
| X | | O O | | 2 |
| X | | O O | +---+
| | | O |
| | X | 7 |
| |BAR| |
| | | |
| | | |
| O | | |
| O | | X X X X X |
| O X | | X X X O X X |
+12-11-10--9--8--7-------6--5--4--3--2--1-+
Pip count X: 126 O: 101 X-O: 0-7/15
Cube: 2, O own cube
X to play 32

Not much can go wrong for X here, so I'd get greedy with the
banana split bar/22 5/3*, aiming to close out two (or more!)
of O's checkers.

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Tim Chow

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On Tuesday, April 18, 2023 at 1:40:35 PM UTC-4, Robert Zimmerman wrote:

Last night I played a tournament match online and lost freakish games. One was a double 6 rolled against a 5 point prime with 3 checkers on the ace point. Yeah, I lost that game. Later I had a checker closed out except for an open 2 point and a blot on

the 8 point. He rolled 26. Yep, lost that one. Anyway, here's a rather fun highlight from this freak show.

Bob

XGID=-BBaBBB----Ac----aCc---g-A:1:-1:1:32:0:7:0:15:10

Score is X:0 O:7 15 pt.(s) match. +13-14-15-16-17-18------19-20-21-22-23-24-+
| O X | | O O | +---+
| X | | O O | | 2 |
| X | | O O | +---+
| | | O |
| | X | 7 |
| |BAR| |
| | | |
| | | |
| O | | |
| O | | X X X X X |
| O X | | X X X O X X |
+12-11-10--9--8--7-------6--5--4--3--2--1-+
Pip count X: 126 O: 101 X-O: 0-7/15
Cube: 2, O own cube
X to play 32

As Tim said, the banana split. It garners more than twice the gammons that it gives up. Unfortunately I didn't see it at the time. Next time...
Bob

XGID=-BBaBBB----Ac----aCc---g-A:1:-1:1:32:0:7:0:15:10

Score is X:0 O:7 15 pt.(s) match.
+13-14-15-16-17-18------19-20-21-22-23-24-+
| O X | | O O | +---+
| X | | O O | | 2 |
| X | | O O | +---+
| | | O |
| | X | 7 |
| |BAR| |
| | | |
| | | |
| O | | |
| O | | X X X X X |
| O X | | X X X O X X |
+12-11-10--9--8--7-------6--5--4--3--2--1-+
Pip count X: 126 O: 101 X-O: 0-7/15
Cube: 2, O own cube
X to play 32

1. Rollout¹ Bar/22 5/3* eq:+0.766
Player: 72.73% (G:37.73% B:0.71%)
Opponent: 27.27% (G:9.58% B:0.24%)
Confidence: ±0.019 (+0.747..+0.784) - [100.0%]
Duration: 26.5 seconds

2. Rollout¹ Bar/22 18/16 eq:+0.656 (-0.110)
Player: 72.16% (G:27.09% B:0.51%)
Opponent: 27.84% (G:5.97% B:0.16%)
Confidence: ±0.019 (+0.638..+0.675) - [0.0%]
Duration: 23.2 seconds

3. Rollout² Bar/22 11/9 eq:+0.638 (-0.127)
Player: 71.76% (G:26.49% B:0.36%)
Opponent: 28.24% (G:6.12% B:0.13%)
Confidence: ±0.017 (+0.621..+0.656) - [0.0%]
Duration: 24.0 seconds

eXtreme Gammon Version: 2.10, MET: Kazaross XG2

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