2007-04-08
In the morning of day 4 Mochy and Jakob Garal played the semifinal of the Monte Carlo qualifier on Jakob Garal's inventive board. Jakob (Aachen, Germany) built a backgammon board with sensors for recording your games. You can either roll the dice manually, use computer generated dice or a "prepared" list (like the seed in gnubg There is also an interface to operate the rolls and cube decisions.
Board and noteobook communicate via bluetooth
Of course the interface is a little buggy and needs some improvements, but it's still a prototype. Anyway, in chess DEGT boards that transfer the position, moves and time usage to either closed tv curcuits or to the internet. And perhaps we'll find ourselves playing at these new backgammon boards in 5 years.
The user interface (sorry that it's a bit blurred)
An interesting position from the Nations cup as an appetizer:
The score (after 0 games) is: white 9, green 6 (match to 13 points)
green on roll, cube decision?
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Pip counts: white 127, green 124
Position ID: 2byBATC2bYIBYA Match ID: cAmgAZAAMAAA
I finally made up my mind playing more backgammon today and registered Oystein and me to the consultation doubles and also to the upcomming team event. There is also a big poker tournament in the Casino tonight (2,000,- DK), and I might show up there. The semifinals of winners and losers brackets will start at 2pm.
Here you'll find my recorded matches:
Fabrizio vs ace (sgf) (mat)
Poem vs ace (sgf) (mat)
A short update
In the winners bracket Rolf Nielsen (DK) lost against Norbert Wiebusch (GER) at DMP 19-21. Wiebusch will play Thomas Jespersen (DK) later this night. Jespersen beat Sven Olav Noren (SWE) in the second match.
A snapshot of the second last game between Nielsen and Wiebusch:
The score (after 0 games) is: Rolf Nielsen 19, Norbert Wiebusch 17 (match to 21 points)
Norbert Wiebusch on roll, cube decision?
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Pip counts: Rolf Nielsen 50, Norbert Wiebusch 52
Position ID: 390gBABv9gsAAA Match ID: cAmgAjABiAAA
Wiebusch chose not to cube. He rolled a 21 (2/off, 1/off), Nielsen followed with a 21 (9/6). Wiebusch thought again for a while, doubled and decided the game with a 55.
The final game between Rolf Nielsen and Norbert Wiebusch
The semifinals of the losers bracket have just started. Rolf Nielsen (DK) plays against Martin Foldager (DK), Sven Olav Noren (SWE) is paired to Morten Holm (DK).
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