wales@cs.ucla.edu (Rich Wales) (12/01/88)
In V7N7 of the Sun-Spots Digest, Craig Chase describes a scenario in "gammontool" in which he had borne off two pieces, then had a blot hit. When the computer won, it claimed a backgammon (presumably because Craig had a piece on the bar). Craig goes on to ask if one can be backgammoned even after bearing one or more pieces off. As far as I am aware, the answer is "no". According to _The Backgammon Book_ by Oswald Jacoby and John R. Crawford (Bantam Books, 1976; ISBN 0-553-10366-0): A backgammon (triple game) is won if the adversary has not borne off a single man and has one or more men in the winner's inner table or upon the bar. (pp. 212-213) Jacoby, of course, is a long-standing backgammon authority. -- Rich Wales // UCLA Computer Science Department // +1 (213) 825-5683 3531 Boelter Hall // Los Angeles, California 90024-1596 // USA wales@CS.UCLA.EDU ...!(uunet,ucbvax,rutgers)!cs.ucla.edu!wales