Did you hear the one about the backgammon masterclass given by Paul Epstein?
From peps...@gmail.com@pepstein5@gmail.com to rec.games.backgammon on Fri Dec 22 09:05:17 2023
From Newsgroup: rec.games.backgammon
The class had an obvious lesson that would have been interesting to
weak players only.
Here I played correctly to save the gammon whenever XG rolls non-doubles.
The max-crossover play loses a gammon on 44.
Score is X:6 O:4 11 pt.(s) match.
+13-14-15-16-17-18------19-20-21-22-23-24-+
| | | O |
| | | O |
| | | O |
| | | O |
| | | |
| |BAR| |
| | | 6 |
| | | X |
| | | X X | +---+
| | | X X X X | | 2 |
| X X | | X X X X | +---+
+12-11-10--9--8--7-------6--5--4--3--2--1-+
Pip count X: 49 O: 4 X-O: 6-4/11
Cube: 2, X own cube
X to play 53