Last week, while looking up opening roll related
articles, I had come accrosss a very old thread
titled: "Who goes first in Matches". See:
https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.backgammon/c/JEMDGIhr4Sw/m/u9iIapMoTaYJ
In it, many ways of determining who goes first in
various different flavors of classic backgammon
and gamblegammon, starting with alternating in
match play as suggested by the original poster.
It had truely saddened me at least for the sake of
backgammon, (since I really don't care that much
about gamblegammon), to see "Chuck Bower" say:
"Probably since match backgammon evolved out
"of money backgammon, the individual games in
"the match were just kept close to money play
Who knows how many westerners who first learn
cubeful gamblegammon must think that cubeless
backgammon is a variant of a game invented by
the mentally ill American/arithmetician gamblers.
My point here is that winning the opening roll and
rolling the opening dice are two separate events,
even if they seem to be combined and happening
simultaneously.
Although while playing backgammon matches, the
winner of the opening roll may be the roller of the
high or low die, winner or loser of the previous game,
alternating, etc. gamblegammon players around the
world must be going by the American/western rule.
Since no buggy, garbage generating gamblegammon
bot offers any of those alternatives, (even while they
offer cubeless match play similar to backgammon),
let's just focus on the rule of the roller of the high die
going first by having to play the "opening dice" rolled.
What about if one (or both) of the players say that he
wants to double instantly if he wins the opening roll..?
Since he can't know the resulting dice before they roll
a die each, this should be technically acceptable. Any
logical arguments to the contarary..?
I intentionally keep my brain uninfected by the match
equity table bullshit and thus don't know if there would
be scores where doing this would make sense. Maybe
in post-crawford, etc. situations of gamblegammon..?
In match play, no mentally ill gamblers worshippers of
bots would do this because bots say that winning the
opening roll gives you only 52.5%(?) winning chances.
But Axel's Murat mutant bot would, as it would double
in any position with > 50% winning chances. :)
So, what if Axel runs an experiment on this and finds
out again that after 4 billion games, (okay I'll settle for
10,000 games but not extrapolated), the Murat mutant
wins 52.5% and shoves the so-called cube skill bullshit
up your mentally ill arithmetician asses...??
MK