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From: israel@umcp-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.games
Subject: Re: bearing off
Message-ID: <3181@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Oct-83 21:17:58 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 17 21:17:58 1983
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Organization: Univ. of Maryland, Computer Science Dept.
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I don't understand.  When I learned to play backgammon, I was told
that you can't use a number as a smaller number if you can use the
whole thing.  In other words, I can't use a four to bear a man off
of the two point if I can move a man from the five point to the
one point.  If that is true, then a 6-4 in this situation:

| 0           |BAR|
| 0   0   0 0 |BAR|
+-------------+---+--
  1 2 3 4 5 6

is predetermined  (i.e. use the six to bear the man on the six point
off) and then use the four to move the man from the five point to the
one point.  Have I been playing under the wrong rules all these years,
or am I just missing something in the problem description?

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~~~ Bruce ~~~
Computer Science Dept., University of Maryland
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