{"id":750,"date":"2026-02-07T12:02:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T12:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gammonrants.org\/?page_id=750"},"modified":"2026-02-07T12:02:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T12:02:55","slug":"the-best-of-the-best-moves","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gammonrants.org\/index.php\/the-best-of-the-best-moves\/","title":{"rendered":"The best of the best moves?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Came across this position in a recent match on DailyGammon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This 66 can seal the win. But how to do it best? Even in such a position with several great moves I managed to squeeze in a blunder worth 0.2 points of equity. So, what move shall it be?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"636\" src=\"https:\/\/gammonrants.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-1024x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gammonrants.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-1024x636.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gammonrants.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gammonrants.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-768x477.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gammonrants.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-1536x954.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gammonrants.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image.jpg 1886w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I went for the wonderfully aggressive 13\/7(2) 8-2(2)*. My reasoning was: hit now, get checkers to support the attack, maybe I can close my opponent out (or later capture the second blot) and win a gammon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turns out, my reasoning was somehow nearly correct &#8211; my move wins about 12% gammons\/backgammons. But the best move is 15\/9 (2) 13\/7(2), making a 5-point prime. Nearly as good: 20\/14(2), 13\/7(2), getting the back checkers to safety. Both moves win nearly 72% of the games, while mine wins only 65% of the games. Seems I underestimated continuations where blue gets his checker out, and I roll something like 6-1 or 5-2 and bring me into a situation where I can be hit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So sometimes hitting greedily is not the best move&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Came across this position in a recent match on DailyGammon. This 66 can seal the win. But how to do it best? Even in such a position with several great moves I managed to squeeze in a blunder worth 0.2 points of equity. So, what move shall it be? I went for the wonderfully aggressive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-750","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gammonrants.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gammonrants.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gammonrants.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gammonrants.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gammonrants.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gammonrants.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753,"href":"https:\/\/gammonrants.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/750\/revisions\/753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gammonrants.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}