This interesting position occurred. Black doubled and white took a good 10 minutes to decide, even though there seems to be symmetry, his position is about to collapse. (Note, the bottom of the picture is white's inner board.) The best white could hope for was to be hit and fail to enter, or have black break even faster than him. Not very appealing.

A member with a bot analysed the position and wrote this:

"At a 2-to-3 score up to 9, Black the trailer should double and White the leader should drop.  It is a substantial blunder to take, about 1/8 th point per normalized game.  Both the XG evaluation player and a moderate number of  live cube rollouts (2500) agree on this equity difference."

May 2012 saw a big turnout with 21 players. People came from not only Ottawa and Gatineau but America, Montreal and Deep River.

Meet Mike.
He is a regular with stories of hard-baked Montreal and backgammon mishaps.

   

This is the Ottawa Backgammon Club monthly blog. The Ottawa Backgammon Club is the oldest backgammon club in Canada. It was started in the late 70s and continues until this day. Members compete monthly for the annual trophy. The statistics are compiled and the winner gets bragging rights and their name on the trophy. There will be a monthly entry into this blog beginning May 2012.