{"id":35035,"date":"2025-12-31T20:32:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T01:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35035"},"modified":"2025-12-31T20:32:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T01:32:22","slug":"a-satisfying-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35035","title":{"rendered":"A Satisfying Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m becoming more willing to offer to double in hopes of making the computer resign in backgammon.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"724\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot_20251231_201955-1200x724.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-fullwidth wp-image-35034\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I thought a double-and-resign was my best chance at victory, frankly, as my position was not a good one.  I was unlikely to get those two pieces out of white&#8217;s home quadrant, and it was only sheer dumb lock that resulted in my position keeping white from bringing its piece back onto the board in my home quadrant.<\/p>\n<p>I had white trapped, but it wasn&#8217;t likely to last for long, and trying to get my pieces out of where they were pinned would likely result in my pieces being taken off the board as I couldn&#8217;t move them safely.<\/p>\n<p>So, an offer to double.  Which white accepted.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, this felt damn satisfying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m becoming more willing to offer to double in hopes of making the computer resign in backgammon. Case in point: I thought a double-and-resign was my best chance at victory, frankly, as my position was not a good one. I was unlikely to get those two pieces out of white&#8217;s home quadrant, and it was<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35035\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;A Satisfying Victory&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[5163],"class_list":["post-35035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-games","tag-backgammon","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}