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30. März 2011, 16:53:43
Pedro Martínez 
Thema: Re: Identical Opening Moves
Walter Montego: Read the latest posts on the Feature Requests board.

30. März 2011, 16:52:27
Walter Montego 
Thema: Re: Identical Opening Moves
playBunny: Then the problem should be fixed. Either start over with a new dice program, or find out where this link between the rolls is being made and sever it.

I haven't posted to this board in many years. It looks from the links you and pedestrian posted here that this has been discussed and reported about from last year. So where's Fencer at on this? I am sure he wants the games here to play correctly. And any type of random dice program must be a fun challenge to make it work randomly, which they aren't doing now.

28. März 2011, 23:01:27
playBunny 
Thema: Re: Identical Opening Moves
Walter Montego: Can't we just have the dice to simulate a real pair of dice being toss

Actually I think that that could be exactly what's done and where the problem lies.
http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=26&plla=1067194

28. März 2011, 17:48:08
Walter Montego 
Thema: Re: Identical Opening Moves
pedestrian: Well then!
IF this is the case, what's being done about fixing the problem? Can't we just have the dice to simulate a real pair of dice being toss instead of some fluke that can't be right and might explain why I win more than I should, or less?

These links confirm that tony's and others' charting of the dice have shown a pattern of something being wrong with the dice.

It is a fairly simple thing to have a well working random dice simulator, so what's the deal? A day or two's work on a program should be enough. This is a major problem since it affects the integrity of the game even if the flaw is fair for both players, and I am not so sure that it is fair for both players since in an identical paired start one player or the other will have an advantage depending on the what rolls were made. Maybe not 6-1 or 3-1, but what about 6-3?

27. März 2011, 21:09:08
pedestrian 
Thema: Re: Identical Opening Moves

27. März 2011, 21:03:03
coan.net 
Thema: Re: Identical Opening Moves
tonyh: Out of those 57 games that had the same - did you happen to pay attention who won the opening roll? (Player 1 or Player 2)?

And were they all no-cube matches or with the double cube?

I'm just wondering if maybe we can determine if we can see more of a pattern here... I myself have noticed it also, just never felt like sitting down and counting.

27. März 2011, 19:20:08
tonyh 
Thema: Identical Opening Moves
For some time now, I have felt that my opponent's and my opening moves were identical. I shared this view with Walter Montego and he agreed. We decided that I do a test of 150 games to see how often the opening moves were the same, expecting a result of about 10, at odds of 15/1.
Out of the last 153 of my games, 57 had identical opening moves. Surely, this cannot be right; it needs looking into.

17. März 2011, 16:58:28
Czuch 
Thema: Re:
Pedro Martínez: 5 1/2.... my bad! Now it just doesnt seem so long anymore ;)

17. März 2011, 04:17:05
grenv 
Thema: Re: 6 1/2 years later
Pedro Martínez: 160 turns in 5 years... about one every 11 days or so.

These people live in some parallel universe - all that matters is having enough games to guarantee there will be a move waiting for you at all times... it's a drug.

17. März 2011, 03:56:21
Pedro Martínez 
And by the way, it's not 6 1/2 years later, but “only” 5 1/2 years later…

17. März 2011, 03:54:30
Pedro Martínez 
Thema: Re: 6 1/2 years later

17. März 2011, 03:14:11
grenv 
Thema: Re: 6 1/2 years later
Czuch: Looks like I narrowly missed the second round. - and my last move was in 2005. Kinda glad I didn't make it.

16. März 2011, 22:37:47
pgt 
Thema: Re: 6 1/2 years later
Czuch: My God!. I've moved house three times, travelled round the world twice, and bought three cars since this tournament started - not to mention I have also collected 5 years worth of superannuation payments and had five grandchildren! And to think, FIFA have managed to finish TWO tournaments in this period.

16. März 2011, 21:40:07
toedder 
LOL

16. März 2011, 21:37:56
Czuch 
Thema: 6 1/2 years later
Finally round 2 begins!

The first doubling cube tournament

24. Feburar 2011, 17:42:43
aaru 
Thema: 18000
Please sign up -> I NEED 2 MORE IN: Grasshopper.

Thanks

19. Feburar 2011, 05:48:40
Clandestine 1 
Thema: Re: The Cheats of Gammon

Pedro Martínez: thats good to hear. thank you for exposing such a bug, it:s difficult to gain such advantage over an oppoenent in backgammon, unless of course you have the know how or computer savy, both of which I lack. I do consider myself to be an excellent backgammon opponent though, so if someone wants a match (without the cheats) give me an invite.


Thanks again Pedro.


20. Januar 2011, 14:06:47
Pedro Martínez 
Thema: Re: The Cheats of Gammon
Clandestine 1: Yes, the problem was resolved shortly after I had created and announced this tourney.

20. Januar 2011, 08:35:56
Clandestine 1 
Thema: The Cheats of Gammon
A while ago, more then a year (I believe it was Pedro) that exposed the cheats of gammon that were abusing their privelidge of knowledge of computer systems and were somehow able to roll or re-roll in a single turn. Does anyone remember this or am I remembering it wrong? Has this problem/system fault been resolved or does it still live on?

26. Dezember 2010, 14:47:29
joshi tm 
@ Carl : Wow ;)

So I should wait for a foul move by my opponent or be very lucky.

26. Dezember 2010, 09:50:32
Carl 
Thema: Re:
Resher: But it can and does happen! Plakoto (Carl vs. KrazeeEyezKilla)

21. Dezember 2010, 10:01:12
Resher 
Thema: Re:
skipinnz: Thanks, good to know

21. Dezember 2010, 10:00:08
skipinnz 
Thema: Re:
Resher: That has always been the rule. it doesn't happen very often, but it could.

21. Dezember 2010, 09:58:19
Resher 
Thema: Re:
skipinnz: Oh, have the rules changed? I don't remember that caveat being there when the game was first introduced here. Thanks for pointing it out.

21. Dezember 2010, 09:39:45
skipinnz 
Thema: Re:
joshi tm: It will be finished when he moves his last man off of his 1st point , as it could be a draw if you can pin his man.

21. Dezember 2010, 09:37:11
joshi tm 
Why I'm still allowed to move in this game where I've already lost?
Plakoto (joshi tm - nauars)

17. Dezember 2010, 11:17:17
Karol G. 
Backgammon, 7p with dc, winter 2010

game: backgammon, 7 points matches with doubling cube, one for each 2 players
time: 2/0.8/3 registration open till 20/12/2010, 9:00 GMT
section: 1 up to 20 people
rating: doesn't matter

Feel free to sign up, cheers!

1. Dezember 2010, 07:55:33
playBunny 
Thema: Re: Where are my points?
pgt: I got a response [from Fencer] "It's a visual bug. Player names should be switched in the message."

Yes, he's right.

I have no way of verifying it now!

That's true but I do. ;-)

These are your recent matches:
28. Nov 2010, 08:18:48   7 points match with doubling cube   g.            lost
28. Nov 2010, 21:07:53 5 points match with doubling cube ennukene00 lost
29. Nov 2010, 20:36:18 7 games match ennukene00 lost
29. Nov 2010, 20:48:54 5 points match with doubling cube ennukene00 won
29. Nov 2010, 20:51:41 7 games match ennukene00 won
30. Nov 2010, 10:33:57 7 games match ennukene00 lost
30. Nov 2010, 10:40:31 5 points match with doubling cube ennukene00 lost
30. Nov 2010, 11:50:48 7 games match Carl lost
30. Nov 2010, 21:06:34 7 games match tequila lost
And, according to Fencer, that name switch means that your rating after that win should be 2264.

ennukene00: old BKR = 2256, new BKR = 2264 (+8)
pgt: old BKR = 2245, new BKR = 2237 (-8)
Which you can see here: Phil_Hyper_Nov2010.png

1. Dezember 2010, 01:45:44
pgt 
Thema: Re: Points
Vikings: It's not all that important really - I mean, it's only points, and BG points are a load of crap anyway.

1. Dezember 2010, 01:31:59
Vikings 
Thema: Re: Points
pgt: you can go to your " Events " page and click on " Trash " and find your message

30. November 2010, 22:37:35
Bwild 
Thema: Re: Points
pgt: your profile shows that as your last completed game,but your bkr is 2230!

30. November 2010, 22:30:55
pgt 
Thema: Re: Points
pedestrian: Only problem is that I usually just delete the messages, so it's too late to verify.

30. November 2010, 22:19:06
pedestrian 
Thema: Re: Points
pgt: Well, there is a way to verify it: You go to the message you received when you finished your next Hyper Backgammon game after this one. The rating calculations there should say that your initial rating was 2264.

30. November 2010, 22:07:23
pgt 
Thema: Re: Points
pedestrian: I got a response "It's a visual bug. Player names should be switched in the message." I have no way of verifying it now!

30. November 2010, 22:04:36
pedestrian 
Thema: Re: Points
pgt: Hmm... that must be a bug. You should file a bug report if you haven't done it already (go to the message and then click the image of a bug in the upper right corner).

I don't know if Fencer still looks into those. In recent years he's been busy with BrainKing3.

30. November 2010, 21:51:31
pgt 
Thema: Re: Points
pedestrian: > I won this match. How come I lost rating points? It was a 7 game match, which I won 4 games to 3
>
> Game ID: 4914333
> ennukene00 is the winner.
>
> ennukene00: old BKR = 2256, new BKR = 2264 (+8)
> pgt: old BKR = 2245, new BKR = 2237 (-8)
>
> Game type: Hyper Backgammon

30. November 2010, 15:49:27
pedestrian 
Thema: Re: Points
pgt: The link you provide doesn't show the rating change after this match. You should receive a message (under 'Events') that shows that your rating went up and his went down. If not, it seems to be a bug.

30. November 2010, 15:45:44
Bwild 
http://brainking.com/cz/OldFAQ?ht=

probably a bug, which of course will be fixed with bk3, some time in the next millennium! lol

30. November 2010, 12:37:47
Dice Cheater 
Thema: Re: Points
pgt: You won the match so you should have gained points.

29. November 2010, 21:56:33
pgt 
Thema: Points
Hyper Backgammon (pgt vs. ennukene00)

How come I lost rating points in this match when I won it? I resigned the 7th game because I had already won four!

29. November 2010, 14:46:44
grenv 
Thema: Re: Getting yourself banned
Verändert von grenv (30. November 2010, 00:57:49)
moistfinger: Guess I should rethink my other handle then. Got any other ideas?

29. November 2010, 01:37:57
DragonKing 
Thema: Re: Counting the pips
playBunny: Got it- Thanks!

28. November 2010, 22:40:11
wetware 
Thema: Re:
moistfinger:  And the "horrible looking" DailyGammon is easily made beautiful, more functional, and customizable by the use of "DG Extras".

28. November 2010, 21:34:42
playBunny 
Thema: Re: Getting yourself banned
Verändert von playBunny (29. November 2010, 01:34:40)
moistfinger: I think the site is run by complete control freaks

Lol. If you got yourself banned then that's an entirely natural thing to think. After all, why accept any responsibility yourself.

Banning is rare at DailyGammon but there are certain ways that you can help yourself out the door. Most of them involve being annoying followed by being an -------------. You do get the option to stop after the first and try to resist becoming the second.

In Pedro's case I think, unless there were events that I wasn't aware of, that it was a case of misunderstanding after Pedro made a rather clumsy entrance; one that made it too easy to interpret his joining as being for the purposes of aggression. As there is an ongoing "battle" with someone (a major ---------) who does just that, toleration for such accounts is lower than it might be.

ps. I shudder to think how traumatised you'd be if you met real control freaks. By the way, have you joined GoldToken yet?

28. November 2010, 21:20:12
playBunny 
Thema: Re: Counting the pips
DragonKing: There's a pip count shown next to each player's name, which has been labelled "Points" rather than "Pips". If you are doing your own pip count, a piece on the bar counts as 25.

28. November 2010, 20:13:32
DragonKing 
Thema: Re: Direction of movement
playBunny: Thank you- one last question. If there is a checker on the bar, how does that figure in if I am counting the pips? Thank you for helping a new player.

28. November 2010, 07:11:53
playBunny 
Thema: Fast Hypergammon 2010
A monthly series of fast-paced Hypergammon tourneys

Late announcement. It starts on Wednesday

I like it fast, 5-point Hyper, 1st December 2010

28. November 2010, 07:08:35
playBunny 
Thema: Re: Direction of movement
DragonKing: It's entirely arbitrary. On a board in live play there will always be one player going clockwise and one going anti-clockwise. It's only possible for both players to makes their moves in the same direction if they each have a board, which is, of course, how it is on a game site.

In books it's likely to be the preference of the author. For a game site it may be their preference or it may be that they take their convention from elsewhere. Some sites, such as DailyGammon, allow each player to choose their direction of play.

28. November 2010, 06:02:29
DragonKing 
Thema: Direction of movement
Does it matter if the play goes clockwise or counter- clockwise? Most of the books and computer software I have seen are all counter- as well as the direction of play here- but some books and sites are just the opposite. Is there a reason?

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