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Game 7, move 14: Roderick 5-2

Started by diane, October 16, 2013, 10:47:55 AM

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diane

October 16, 2013, 10:47:55 AM
move?
Never give up on the things that make you smile

Roderick

#1
October 16, 2013, 05:26:25 PM
No 1, 6 or 8.  Can't hit.

Can't run - too dangerous.

2 choices - 16/11, 8/6 or 10/8, 10/5

Ideally I'd like to make it tougher for you to escape by blocking your 6's.  However the race is fairly close after my play.  Giving 15 hitting numbers shouldn't be better than just keeping the 4-prime in front of you and safe tying (relatively) the blot.  If you hit that blot you're just very favored to get a 5 in the next several rolls (about how long it will likely take me to be able to effectively attack you on my deuce).

16/11, 8/6.

Zorba

#2
October 24, 2013, 02:40:19 PM
Catching up here... but why not 16/11 10/8? Blocking sixes with only 4 indirect shots?
The fascist's feelings of insecurity run so deep that he desperately needs a classification of some things as successful or superior and other things as failed or inferior. This also underlies the fascist's embracement of concepts like mental illness and IQ tests.  - R.J.V.

Luck is my main skill

Roderick

#3
October 24, 2013, 04:02:47 PM
Ummmmmmmm........

Because I wanted to make a massive blunder?


I have no idea.  All I can say is that 95+% of the time I use my phone to make these plays.  I might have thought it was a simple play - so simple that I didn't bother expanding my screen to see the image magnified and somehow thought that my checkers were 3 away from the 8 and couldn't cover.  It sounds lame but it's such a massively clear play for really anyone that I just can't think of what else it could have been.

Sometimes I've also made these plays before going to sleep after playing for 12+ hours and being up for over 24 hours.

Perhaps it was some combination of the 2 things happening at once.  Dunno.

I'll chalk this one up to iphone use and haste, possibly with exhaustion sprinkled in.


I'm surprised no one else called me out on this.  It's so so very wrong.

NIHILIST

#4
October 24, 2013, 08:34:32 PM
Roderick writes...
QuoteI'm surprised no one else called me out on this.  It's so so very wrong.

We were all probably laughing too hard.

Bob
Robert J Ebbeler

Zorba

#5
October 25, 2013, 09:54:34 PM
Okay, yeah I guess we all miss a play every now and then. Even on DailyGammon, where there's ample time to consider your cube/move, I still suffer from oversights like these occasionally. Sometimes it's just the mouse click reflex kicking in, it seems. Can be especially bad if you click to roll the dice (curiousity!) and realize right as you click, you should have doubled first.
The fascist's feelings of insecurity run so deep that he desperately needs a classification of some things as successful or superior and other things as failed or inferior. This also underlies the fascist's embracement of concepts like mental illness and IQ tests.  - R.J.V.

Luck is my main skill

NIHILIST

#6
October 26, 2013, 01:11:41 AM
Roderick wrote ...
QuoteNo 1, 6 or 8.  Can't hit.

Can't run - too dangerous.

2 choices - 16/11, 8/6 or 10/8, 10/5

Ideally I'd like to make it tougher for you to escape by blocking your 6's.  However the race is fairly close after my play.  Giving 15 hitting numbers shouldn't be better than just keeping the 4-prime in front of you and safe tying (relatively) the blot.  If you hit that blot you're just very favored to get a 5 in the next several rolls (about how long it will likely take me to be able to effectively attack you on my deuce).

16/11, 8/6.

Gosh, he reasoned it all out so carefully then blamed his error on his phone. Still, it was painful to see him in the sackcloth and ashes so I tried to lighten the mood a bit. If it's any consolation to him I'm sure Stevie Wonder and Jose Feliciano would have made the same play he did.

You were quite compassionate in your post and I'm sure Rod appreciates your sensitivity.

Bob
Robert J Ebbeler

Zorba

#7
October 26, 2013, 11:56:56 AM
Did you know, Stevie Wonder was an avid backgammon player?'He had this special backgammon board designed for himself, that made different clavinet tones for all the points and dice.
The fascist's feelings of insecurity run so deep that he desperately needs a classification of some things as successful or superior and other things as failed or inferior. This also underlies the fascist's embracement of concepts like mental illness and IQ tests.  - R.J.V.

Luck is my main skill

stiefnu

#8
October 26, 2013, 01:26:40 PM
There's a blind backgammon player on the scene in England. It's fascinating to watch him. He uses touch and memory to figure out his moves and he plays very well. He doesn't use a specially textured board or chequers. Sometimes he uses a dice rolling app on his iphone. He shakes it, it makes a dice rolling sound, then displays and 'speaks' the rolls. Usually though there'll be a neutral observer on hand to call out the rolls in tournament play.

Steve

NIHILIST

#9
October 26, 2013, 01:59:36 PM
At an office Christmas party back in the day, I was given a subscription to the Braille edition of PLAYBOY. Somehow it just wasn't the same experience.

Bob
Robert J Ebbeler

Zorba

#10
October 26, 2013, 02:12:48 PM
The fascist's feelings of insecurity run so deep that he desperately needs a classification of some things as successful or superior and other things as failed or inferior. This also underlies the fascist's embracement of concepts like mental illness and IQ tests.  - R.J.V.

Luck is my main skill

NIHILIST

#11
October 26, 2013, 04:51:52 PM
He shoulda performed  at the first Monterey Pop Festival where Pete Townshend destroyed his guitar and Jimi Hendrix set his guitar on fire.

Bob
Robert J Ebbeler

stog

#12
October 26, 2013, 08:24:36 PM
were you getting down at Monterey Nihole?
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