With the NY Metro coming up next Wednesday, if I want to attain a Grandmaster title by the end of the BMAB tournament there, I will have to play at or better than a 3.27 PR. My checker play should be fine, but I must have a huge leak in my cube actions, especially when it comes to racing cubes and cubes at lopsided scores. Because of that, I will need to study some racing formulas, and also at the very least the doubling points/take points where the taker has no further use for the cube, apart from possibly an automatic redouble.
For example, I’ve heard Michy has memorized the gammonless take point at 3-away 2-away for the leader is 26%, but if I were to derive it myself so I can memorize it easier, it would be like this: Risk = 50% – 32.3% = 17.7%, Reward = 100% – 50% = 50%, Risk/(Risk+Reward) = 17.7%/67.7% = 26.1%. So basically spot on.
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