A Well Known Position
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Make the Prime First
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Risk Management
Backgammon is a game of risk and reward and balancing those two things is at the heart of the game.
Intricate Endgame
The key for Red to winning this game is to separate the three white checkers.
Complex DMP
This is not an easy problem and finding the best plan, particularly over the board in live play, even more so.
Containment
The bots have taught us a lot about containment. Before the early 1990s we really weren’t very good at containing hit checkers!
Bear-Off Problem
When we study bear-off doubling we learn about ‘roll’ positions.
Extended Jeopardy
What could be easier than a simple bear-off?
Pay Me Now, Pay Me Later?
This looks like a classic ‘Pay me now, pay me later’ problem.
Complex Ending
Without an extensive knowledge of reference positions this is a difficult problem. If you have seen something like this before it makes life a lot eas…