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Hrqls: I know we've played, but I don't know if we've played with the cube. So maybe there's still time for mindless doubles. Sometimes I look back at some of the doubles I made, and I wonder why I made them.
Hrqls: That's a definite drop, in my opinion, I halfway agree with playBunny that, in essence, your opponent may have been doing you a favor by offering. Had I been your opponent, though, I probably would have offered, for two reasons:
1.) I'm 20 points behind in pip count, which means you're going to have a decent chance to bear at least one off even if I get you stuck on the bar for a while. So chances for gammon aren't good, I would say.
2.) If I didn't know you, I would double because many players on this site will accept a double based on pip count alone, regardless of position, so that doubling and gammoning may not be mutually exclusive here. Against a bad cube player, there's a chance to win 4 here. Now, since I have played you, Hrqls, I know you are a careful and patient player, which would make me less likely to double in this spot for the same reason. But if I hadn't played you before, this would be my thought process.
Hrqls: Two loose blots and a resonably open enemy table.. I'd have played on for the SIZZLE. But then I do like gammon.
... GnuBg thinks ...
GnuBg 3-ply says it's right on the border between double and too-good-to-double. 1296-trial rollout says it's a definite double and pass, not good enough for gammon.
Pedro Martínez: I believe that was the point. The U.S was planning to hold their own cup between their A and B teams and call the winner the world champion. Oh, wait, they already do that in some sports.
Czuch Chuckers: Since the cube came in my hyper rating has skyrocketted, which supports the view that single games are too much about luck. If you want a fairer rating play at least 5 point cube matches.
playBunny: Yeah... Imthink part of it is the two game stair matches I play, for one example. I end up losing 14 bkr points in a draw against a low rated player, or even worse if I happen to lose both games!
I have to be like you, and become more discriminating in the kinds of games I accept and play!
Czuch: It's hard to know if the free fall is due to the runs of luck that Pythagoras was referring to or whether it's a change in your playing. Certainly stress will make me play badly (and it even seems to affect my luck somehow). Sometimes these things happen because you get a set of games which are exploring new territory so you go down because you're making mistakes, but you learn from them and are better in the future. Have a look at the graphs of other players and you'll see similar patterns. Alanback, for instance. His skill cannot be doubted but he has the ocassional bad patch followed by a climb back to glory..
Modified by Chicago Bulls (22. January 2006, 15:00:52)
Czuch Chuckers: It depends from you your opponents and the dice.....Such distribution is normal.
I've dug out some results from me against Jellyfish (5-point matches). Here are the results (1=win for me , 0=lose for me):
1011000110111011100100111111111010111011101
01011000000011011001001110101101 101001 = 48/80 = 60%
As you may see i have series of 9 matches won and series of 7 mathes lost. That is normal.....
An easy way to stop the free fall is to stop playing for a while so the graph would stop look like a free fall....
playBunny: So every blocked player is a Pandora's box of vituperation waiting to be unleashed . . . reminds me of something one of my partners once said: "One day the sky will be black with chickens coming home to roost!"
And there's very possibly a correlation in that idea.
Pythagorus: As BBW said: "They can continue to write and think they are writing to you, but you will no longer have to read it.". I tested this by blocking a friend in a game just now. All the messages - his and mine - disappeared and then reappeared when I unblocked him. Presumably, then, the offending diatribe plus any additionas will be in the game record for such time as the writer is unblocked.
I would a bit correct the aforementioned like this:
A person that is on you list of blocked users as Person-A cannot:
* invite you to a game using the Person-A profile,
* see you on Who is online page using the Person-A profile,
* send you a message using the Person-A profile,
* add you to their Friends list using the Person-A profile.
>but i am not sure of he can not write you a message into the started game. Maybe someone can help you about this doubt.
He can't write you any message on an already started game using the Person-A profile....
This is the backgammon board, lets try to keep our heated discussions on how the dice cheat people. :-)
I have removed all the off-topic posts - please do not be offended if I removed one of yours even if you were trying to help, but they did not make much since once I removed the original posts. I left Matarilevich's post below since it is very good advice for anyone that is having a problem with another user to place them on their Blocked users list.
Plus if you have someone as a blocked users, you will no longer see in-game chat from the person. (They can continue to write and think they are writting to you, but you will no longer have to read it.)
ShunAyumiTaiki: The player from the list of blocked users cannot:
* invite you to a game,
* see you on Who is online page,
* send you a message,
* add you to their Friends list
but i am not sure of he can not write you a message into the started game. Maybe someone can help you about this doubt.
playBunny: Okay, my first 50 moves today in backgammon games I didnt roll any doubles.... that is what I meant to say! I now have rolled 3 doubles since then.
Modified by playBunny (15. January 2006, 16:30:54)
Czuch: Then I'm not sure what you mean by 50 different games. You've only got 51 games and 8 of them aren't Backgammon and now it turns out you haven't moved in a number of others, so... I'm lost. What are you saying happened?
playBunny: Okay, but only one of those was a move I made today, and that one was after my first post on the subject, and I am not drinking quite yet today!
playBunny: Yes, the third link you posted was a move made today after my first post, and the fourth link that was not a move I made today as well. Nice try though....
Czuch: Eh? The first link is a pass for your opponent, janka/Amálka, and a 4-4 for you (move #21). The second is a pass for CindyTN and a 4-4 for you (move #9)! Have another beer, mate.
playBunny: hat first link, that was doubles for my opponent, the second link, I havent made a move in that game yet today, I havent looked at the other two yet. Since I posted the first time, I now have rolled 2 doubles today.
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