[Julia_H]

Nothing spectacular happened and it became a straightforward race to save the gammon. Sadly for the Herd a couple of dances early on meant they fell two crossovers short. That means Christopher wins the match 5-2 - congratulations and welcome to the elite band who have taken on the Herd and beaten them. Hopefully you'll hang around and join us on this side of the board for the next match!

I've attached the .sgf file so you can all analyse away...

[stiefnu]

Well done Christopher, a right old drubbing for the Herd! And many thanks for all that hard work Julia, much appreciated.

Steve

[COsborne]

Thanks Julia:  I ran the match through ExtremeGammon and the herd outplayed me and I got lucky.

Thanks for doing this; to all of you.

Christopher

[Julia_H]

I'm going to look forward to rejoining the Herd as well - it's been a long match!

[stog]

congrats Chris on beating the Herd -- only the second or third to do so i think!

thx both of you gm

[KDP]

can someone post the pr's?  also the match file please, i'm curious about our drop that next to last game.

[ah_clem]

Match stats:
 Fairly even play, with the herd outplaying Chris by a small amount.  Major luck difference, but that's the nature of the game.

Congratulations to Chris and thanks to everyone for participating.


                            The Herd                       COsborne
• Level of Play               Expert (-0.0128)               Advanced (-0.0170)
• Performance Rating        6.39                           8.51
• Checker Play              World Class (-0.0082)          Advanced (-0.0198)
• Cube Play                 Casual Player (-0.0401)        World Class (-0.0064)
• Luck                      Unlucky (-0.0255)              Lucky (+0.0255)
• Total Errors (Blunders)   6 (4)                          10 (6)
   Equity (Cost)           -0.894 (-11.50%)               -1.463 (-15.31%)
   Decisions                70                             86
• Checker Errors (Blunders) 4 (2)                          9 (5)
   Equity (Cost)           -0.494 (-4.47%)                -1.348 (-14.32%)
   Unforced Moves           60                             68
• Doubles (Blunders)        1 (1)                          1 (1)
   Equity (Cost)           -0.097 (-0.75%)                -0.115 (-0.99%)
     - Wrong Doubles       -0.097 (-0.75%)   
     - Missed Doubles                                     -0.115 (-0.99%)
   Cube Decisions           8                              16
• Takes (Blunders)          1 (1)                          None
   Equity (Cost)           -0.304 (-6.28%)   
     - Wrong Takes      
     - Wrong Passes        -0.304 (-6.28%)   
   Take Decisions           2                              2
• Jokers                    9                              11
   Luck (Cost)             -3.720 (-54.72%)               +3.720 (+54.72%)
   Rolls                    72                             74
   Luck based rating        54.71% favorite                45.29% favorite
   Luck based Elo           37                            -37