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Paradoxes and ProbabilitiesEntry/Object ID
BG-2026.0060Description
The most infamous of quiz books, Barclay Cooke’s 'Paradoxes and Probabilities' exemplifies the 1970’s “pure style” of play, which emphasized making priming points in order, recirculating deeply-placed checkers at the expense of racing advantage, and too-willingly falling into back games. Rolling out all 168 positions for Classic Backgammon Revisited, Jeremy Bagai discovered that well over half of Cooke’s conclusions are contradicted by modern neural net programs, with a good third of them “badly wrong. ”Other Names and Numbers
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1978-10-13Book Details
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Oct 13, 1978Time Period
Popular Backgammon