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From: butch@inuxc.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: BG endgames
Message-ID: <765@inuxc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Aug-83 17:47:53 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 25 17:47:53 1983
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	I'm in the need of a way to calculate the percentage
	of winning an end game in backgammon???  The way it is
	done now usually is to play it out X times or have a computer
	play it out.  But I would think that a formula could
	do the job.  By "end game" I mean the part of the game
	when all contact has broken off and both players are 
	bearing-off or bearing-in to bear-off.
 	
	The input would be the number of pieces on each point and
	the value of each point.  It should be calculated for the 
	player on roll.
 
				inuxc!butch