Re: Cube decision 2007-05-16

On May 18, 12:27 pm, MaX <u...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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That's a bit surprising to me, the two positions looks so close ...
only factor I see is then number of fly shots from 20pt for O (just 2 in
the 1st position, 4 in the 2nd one), but still ...

Any comment ? Any Snowie owner with cpu-time to waste ? :)

MaX.

No, there is nothing strange at all about the discrepancy. The second
position is much stronger for the on-roll player than the first one
and it's very plausible that the differences are enough to turn the
position from a no-double-by-0.1 to an ultra-thin double.

You mention (correctly) one factor which makes the 2nd position better
for the on-roller. But I'm surprised (given that you seem a strong
player from your previous posts -- you seem stronger than me, anyway)
as to why you see this as the "only factor". Moving the checker back
from the 2 point to the 6 point helps O tremendously. It's clearly a
much better distribution of builders and 11 is no longer a horror
crunch.

By the way, the number of fly shots increases from 2 to 5, not from 2
to 4.

Paul Epstein

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