I love your educational videos. Please more of this. Thank you so much
@MrEdwardCollins2 күн бұрын
I smashed, I'm already subscribed, and I enjoyed the format and the content. Thank you for taking the time to produce these videos. I wish they were available when I was first learning the game... about 50 years ago.
@TakhteNard3 күн бұрын
it's amazing that we get to see this stuff for free 🥳
@M19_bckgm4 күн бұрын
Your board looks so nice and so comfortable to play with. It’s a Galaxy board ? Great match and video…like always 👍🏻
@JustinNowellPlaysBG4 күн бұрын
My board is a Gammoner board.
@MrGhotifry6 күн бұрын
Grats on the baby! We will see if you have time for videos, hoping so, but… yeah
@123ssiimmoonn6 күн бұрын
Love the commentary, but in the match sound, there's a drum like sound when the dice are rolled that's kind of annoying for me.
@simonoid6 күн бұрын
Top commentary, Justin - high education value, and nice colours and layouts in the video too. May I ask, what is the board you are playing on?
@herbertjeske79952 күн бұрын
It is a Gammoner Board
@JCalvaruso6 күн бұрын
Thank you Justin. Great learning opportunity - 2 strong players, great commentary, and XG analysis.
@DiceManUSA6 күн бұрын
“Another One…..” DJ Khalid. Great video Justin. Thank you for the lesson. Gorgeous Gammoner Board. Let’s see some newer dice tho 😉
@Ahasveros76746 күн бұрын
Great video, lots of fun and very educational 🙏
@Benjaminjalexander6 күн бұрын
Great stuff! You owe me a game, we didn't have time at the RAC. Worth noting how one wrong choice can explode your PR. Almost 60% of Michy's equity loss came from that one take - 1.6 PR becomes 3.4 immediately 4:53
@M19_bckgm7 күн бұрын
Your vidéos are so great. Hope you’ll publish more 👍🏻
@JustinNowellPlaysBG7 күн бұрын
Thank you for the kind words.
@maxzweig78037 күн бұрын
Great video, thanks! Quick weird question. Are there bongos playing in the background or is that just my headphones?
@JustinNowellPlaysBG7 күн бұрын
I have no bongos lol
@Bjornar1986 күн бұрын
I had the same so its not just you :)
@JustinNowellPlaysBG6 күн бұрын
@@maxzweig7803 the metal camera stand recording the match somehow amplifies every sound hitting the table and records it in the camera. The dice rolling and moving checkers sound really loud while in person you can’t hear it at all. Maybe there is a way to isolate the sound but our budget is zero.
@gwcgwc17 күн бұрын
Thanks for the video. What a treat.
@clarkruzin82717 күн бұрын
Hey Justin, do you play a lot of poker? You’ve never mentioned it but you’re constantly speaking the language.
@AlexEshaghianBackgammon7 күн бұрын
Congratulations on the baby!
@propagandaBreaker7 күн бұрын
I join myself to this benediction!
@horacecrane77867 күн бұрын
PR ratings are destroying the game! Luck is what makes the game cool, anyone can win on any given night. Otherwise you should just play chess..... This is why the market for poker is so much bigger, and backgammon has not taken off in the same way.
@JustinNowellPlaysBG7 күн бұрын
@@horacecrane7786 It’s a nice format for trying to improve your game. When the best want to compete against the best it is a fantastic format to see who is really the strongest. It still has quite a luck factor since winning the match still counts for something and the luck associated with how difficult your decisions may be. Nothing will replace normal backgammon for me though. :-)
@horacecrane77867 күн бұрын
@@JustinNowellPlaysBG I agree, it's a great tool to learn with and when the best play the best it is interesting for sure. But when tournaments and BG are set up this way it discourages people who just want to gamble and have fun. And of course these are the people we want to encourage to play. All that being said, great content!
@BackgammonFinesse6 күн бұрын
actually this format bring new breathe on bg community and makes backgammon popular (a lil bit) again, and in New York and in many cities, sales of boards have increased, PR tournaments are the best idea, revolutionary. Gambling addicts are not interested in anything, they are not interested in the culture of gaming and all they need is dopamine. It’s great that the backgammon community follows the path of the work of our prefrontal cortex, and neocortex, awareness and calculation! This is the nature of backgammon. if a person can’t get pleasure from it, it means he doesn’t like backgammon (at least not like we do)
@thomasj85237 күн бұрын
Great layout, very clean! 👌
@CC46497 күн бұрын
This is truly an amazing video!
@TakhteNard7 күн бұрын
Perfect quality! Thanks for doing this Justin!
@JustinNowellPlaysBG7 күн бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@DiceManUSA7 күн бұрын
Great Video…..
@JustinNowellPlaysBG7 күн бұрын
Thank you!
@raminfarahi268612 күн бұрын
What is this stats website called that you are using?
@Jazzy_JoshАй бұрын
I'd watch this but the constant noise of a cable slapping a mic is so awful. How was that not edited out of the audio?
@JustinNowellPlaysBG9 күн бұрын
There is no cable slapping a microphone. What kind of budget do you think we have for these videos?
@RVeda-vh5onАй бұрын
I know it's harder to produce this so the analysis keeps up (why is a UBC played with a speed timing?), but it's a pain to have the analysis constantly a roll behind....
@RVeda-vh5onАй бұрын
41:05 2 away post-crawford: 'I'm not a favorite so I'm not going to double'.... C'mon Justin, you know better than that. The right question is not 'am I a favorite', but 'can I _become_ a favorite after the next sequence?'. The answer is yes, and _any_ such market losing possibility requires a double here. There's a penalty in losing your market, but _no penalty_ (well duh) in doubling early.
@RVeda-vh5onАй бұрын
37:30 I greatly appreciate your almost instant appraisal of positions, Justin. I'm more of a math nerd, and don't often get the feel right.... But the math is simple post-crawford, and I don't believe most people (incl. you) appreciate the 'free drop' difference between 2 away (no gammon value) and 4 away ( _huge_ gammon value: 1.05 - larger then even 4 away 2 away). Dropping the 'free drop' after making such an anchor as Oliver did would be a _huge_ blunder at 4 away (note: -.309 - no longer a 'free' drop at all). With that anchor, even if Oliver were _slightly behind_ in wins, he should take (unlike at 2-away), because the gammons have dropped so much. 4 away post-crawford is a score to understand. It's a pass at this score only if trailer's wins + 1.05 * his gammon wins >=66% ( _not_ wins alone >=50%). When gammon losses are down to 7% (as they were after Oliver's 22), he would have had a take even if his wins were only 42%(!) If you make an advanced anchor or escape a checker on the second roll as leader in this score, you may well have a take. Example reference position: even if trailer opens with 3-1(!) and you roll 6-5 as leader at 4-away post-crawford, you have a take, although your wins are less than 50% (look it up) (though of course it's a drop at 2 away post crawford - win % is all that matters there). At 4 away, you've got to estimate gammons.
@RVeda-vh5onАй бұрын
32:08 '2-1, I slot of course...' Kind of knee-jerk, and a .029 error. Most of the slotting benefit comes from not getting hit, which is truncated because of the free drop. But the risk is amplified more than usual; his 4-4 joker was a _huge_ equity gain for him; any thoughts of giving up the game to you are out the window. Still, it's time you doubled, Justin, though Oliver's anchor actually robber you of any market losers this roll (his drop is by no means free anymore). Running 'the trick' on a free-drop score is very thin ice. If you _really_ want to try it, you should know the market loser calculation. At this score, if your wins plus .57 times your gammon wins add to 61% or more, you have lost your market. Not worth pushing very far. BTW, gammons matter (a lot) in any free drop score but 2 away. The above calculation was _not_ 'favorite to win or not' (wins >=50%), contrary to the almost universally-held myth.
@ezrafalack18312 ай бұрын
Love this video ... Abe’s a great guy ..watch your videos often .....last time I played u tawleh by giddy I won and you wanted to play again...I said that’s the last time you will ever play me lol I was smart
@ezrafalack18312 ай бұрын
Rambo
@GordonjSmith12 ай бұрын
I am sure that both the game and the commentary were excellent - however I really dislike watching backgammon 'online'... sorry.
@invertedreality44732 ай бұрын
More Dogfish Snardheim, Nick Blaster, Mushy, and Herb Romanski!
@invertedreality44732 ай бұрын
Excellent vid, thank you Justin! The last position is interesting. The blitzing play would be an overplay if white had his 5 point made instead of a blot. The blot on the 5 point definitely incentivizes continuing the blitz. In fact, any additional home board points great diminishes the blitz value. If white had no blots in his home board but not points either, I'd say it's a tossup, but I didn't run it through XG, so I'm not entirely sure.
@mobiusklein91402 ай бұрын
Htting before entering from the bar; bearing-off before bearing-in, fancy 'Marc Olsen' style checker movements to "catch the opponent off guard", time to learn a little etiquette Mr ZZ.
@ingevandendorpel42182 ай бұрын
great insight Justin, thank you very much!
@2sohx2 ай бұрын
when wifee stood up at the 51st minute you knew this game just got real!
@ingevandendorpel42182 ай бұрын
Thank you very much Justin for sharing your insights!
@pierreas693 ай бұрын
Very great, thanks.
@chasealexander883 ай бұрын
28:18 I suppose the duplication of the roll 3-5 is why the best move is 15/10. What a difficult decision.
@timsullivan45663 ай бұрын
1.5K views and only 46 likes?????
@JustinNowellPlaysBG3 ай бұрын
Part 2 never does as well as part one. The only reason it is in two parts is because of an exporting error I didn't notice until the original was uploaded.
@timsullivan45663 ай бұрын
@@JustinNowellPlaysBG Okay, but it sure seems like certain folk's smashings were NOT happening...
@timsullivan45663 ай бұрын
I've come to quite like this serpentine Abraham...
@timsullivan45663 ай бұрын
I howled out loud at your feigned explanation of what a "trigger" is for your European viewers.😅🤣😂
@timsullivan45663 ай бұрын
OMG not just a chouette video... ...but a chouette video with commentary! (and Justin time!)
@pennylane63553 ай бұрын
Love these videos. Thanks Justin
@mikechil29483 ай бұрын
Dice talk my friend 😎😎😎
@timsullivan45663 ай бұрын
Oh.. "Smash the LIKE button" - I thought you were saying "Smash the LIGHT button" which I immediately did... ...and now my phone's flashlight is broken.😭
@timsullivan45663 ай бұрын
Really big fan of this format - thanks, Justin.
@stevenhanna97283 ай бұрын
Great stuff 👍🏻
@smoothwalrus93543 ай бұрын
Whooooo new game!
@ontheballcity713 ай бұрын
Nice one, quality match and analysis.
@timsullivan45663 ай бұрын
Wanna know what I say to myself whenever I see a notification from your channel? ... "Justin time", natch! (sorry - 😉)
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I love your educational videos. Please more of this. Thank you so much
I smashed, I'm already subscribed, and I enjoyed the format and the content. Thank you for taking the time to produce these videos. I wish they were available when I was first learning the game... about 50 years ago.
it's amazing that we get to see this stuff for free 🥳
Your board looks so nice and so comfortable to play with. It’s a Galaxy board ? Great match and video…like always 👍🏻
My board is a Gammoner board.
Grats on the baby! We will see if you have time for videos, hoping so, but… yeah
Love the commentary, but in the match sound, there's a drum like sound when the dice are rolled that's kind of annoying for me.
Top commentary, Justin - high education value, and nice colours and layouts in the video too. May I ask, what is the board you are playing on?
It is a Gammoner Board
Thank you Justin. Great learning opportunity - 2 strong players, great commentary, and XG analysis.
“Another One…..” DJ Khalid. Great video Justin. Thank you for the lesson. Gorgeous Gammoner Board. Let’s see some newer dice tho 😉
Great video, lots of fun and very educational 🙏
Great stuff! You owe me a game, we didn't have time at the RAC. Worth noting how one wrong choice can explode your PR. Almost 60% of Michy's equity loss came from that one take - 1.6 PR becomes 3.4 immediately 4:53
Your vidéos are so great. Hope you’ll publish more 👍🏻
Thank you for the kind words.
Great video, thanks! Quick weird question. Are there bongos playing in the background or is that just my headphones?
I have no bongos lol
I had the same so its not just you :)
@@maxzweig7803 the metal camera stand recording the match somehow amplifies every sound hitting the table and records it in the camera. The dice rolling and moving checkers sound really loud while in person you can’t hear it at all. Maybe there is a way to isolate the sound but our budget is zero.
Thanks for the video. What a treat.
Hey Justin, do you play a lot of poker? You’ve never mentioned it but you’re constantly speaking the language.
Congratulations on the baby!
I join myself to this benediction!
PR ratings are destroying the game! Luck is what makes the game cool, anyone can win on any given night. Otherwise you should just play chess..... This is why the market for poker is so much bigger, and backgammon has not taken off in the same way.
@@horacecrane7786 It’s a nice format for trying to improve your game. When the best want to compete against the best it is a fantastic format to see who is really the strongest. It still has quite a luck factor since winning the match still counts for something and the luck associated with how difficult your decisions may be. Nothing will replace normal backgammon for me though. :-)
@@JustinNowellPlaysBG I agree, it's a great tool to learn with and when the best play the best it is interesting for sure. But when tournaments and BG are set up this way it discourages people who just want to gamble and have fun. And of course these are the people we want to encourage to play. All that being said, great content!
actually this format bring new breathe on bg community and makes backgammon popular (a lil bit) again, and in New York and in many cities, sales of boards have increased, PR tournaments are the best idea, revolutionary. Gambling addicts are not interested in anything, they are not interested in the culture of gaming and all they need is dopamine. It’s great that the backgammon community follows the path of the work of our prefrontal cortex, and neocortex, awareness and calculation! This is the nature of backgammon. if a person can’t get pleasure from it, it means he doesn’t like backgammon (at least not like we do)
Great layout, very clean! 👌
This is truly an amazing video!
Perfect quality! Thanks for doing this Justin!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great Video…..
Thank you!
What is this stats website called that you are using?
I'd watch this but the constant noise of a cable slapping a mic is so awful. How was that not edited out of the audio?
There is no cable slapping a microphone. What kind of budget do you think we have for these videos?
I know it's harder to produce this so the analysis keeps up (why is a UBC played with a speed timing?), but it's a pain to have the analysis constantly a roll behind....
41:05 2 away post-crawford: 'I'm not a favorite so I'm not going to double'.... C'mon Justin, you know better than that. The right question is not 'am I a favorite', but 'can I _become_ a favorite after the next sequence?'. The answer is yes, and _any_ such market losing possibility requires a double here. There's a penalty in losing your market, but _no penalty_ (well duh) in doubling early.
37:30 I greatly appreciate your almost instant appraisal of positions, Justin. I'm more of a math nerd, and don't often get the feel right.... But the math is simple post-crawford, and I don't believe most people (incl. you) appreciate the 'free drop' difference between 2 away (no gammon value) and 4 away ( _huge_ gammon value: 1.05 - larger then even 4 away 2 away). Dropping the 'free drop' after making such an anchor as Oliver did would be a _huge_ blunder at 4 away (note: -.309 - no longer a 'free' drop at all). With that anchor, even if Oliver were _slightly behind_ in wins, he should take (unlike at 2-away), because the gammons have dropped so much. 4 away post-crawford is a score to understand. It's a pass at this score only if trailer's wins + 1.05 * his gammon wins >=66% ( _not_ wins alone >=50%). When gammon losses are down to 7% (as they were after Oliver's 22), he would have had a take even if his wins were only 42%(!) If you make an advanced anchor or escape a checker on the second roll as leader in this score, you may well have a take. Example reference position: even if trailer opens with 3-1(!) and you roll 6-5 as leader at 4-away post-crawford, you have a take, although your wins are less than 50% (look it up) (though of course it's a drop at 2 away post crawford - win % is all that matters there). At 4 away, you've got to estimate gammons.
32:08 '2-1, I slot of course...' Kind of knee-jerk, and a .029 error. Most of the slotting benefit comes from not getting hit, which is truncated because of the free drop. But the risk is amplified more than usual; his 4-4 joker was a _huge_ equity gain for him; any thoughts of giving up the game to you are out the window. Still, it's time you doubled, Justin, though Oliver's anchor actually robber you of any market losers this roll (his drop is by no means free anymore). Running 'the trick' on a free-drop score is very thin ice. If you _really_ want to try it, you should know the market loser calculation. At this score, if your wins plus .57 times your gammon wins add to 61% or more, you have lost your market. Not worth pushing very far. BTW, gammons matter (a lot) in any free drop score but 2 away. The above calculation was _not_ 'favorite to win or not' (wins >=50%), contrary to the almost universally-held myth.
Love this video ... Abe’s a great guy ..watch your videos often .....last time I played u tawleh by giddy I won and you wanted to play again...I said that’s the last time you will ever play me lol I was smart
Rambo
I am sure that both the game and the commentary were excellent - however I really dislike watching backgammon 'online'... sorry.
More Dogfish Snardheim, Nick Blaster, Mushy, and Herb Romanski!
Excellent vid, thank you Justin! The last position is interesting. The blitzing play would be an overplay if white had his 5 point made instead of a blot. The blot on the 5 point definitely incentivizes continuing the blitz. In fact, any additional home board points great diminishes the blitz value. If white had no blots in his home board but not points either, I'd say it's a tossup, but I didn't run it through XG, so I'm not entirely sure.
Htting before entering from the bar; bearing-off before bearing-in, fancy 'Marc Olsen' style checker movements to "catch the opponent off guard", time to learn a little etiquette Mr ZZ.
great insight Justin, thank you very much!
when wifee stood up at the 51st minute you knew this game just got real!
Thank you very much Justin for sharing your insights!
Very great, thanks.
28:18 I suppose the duplication of the roll 3-5 is why the best move is 15/10. What a difficult decision.
1.5K views and only 46 likes?????
Part 2 never does as well as part one. The only reason it is in two parts is because of an exporting error I didn't notice until the original was uploaded.
@@JustinNowellPlaysBG Okay, but it sure seems like certain folk's smashings were NOT happening...
I've come to quite like this serpentine Abraham...
I howled out loud at your feigned explanation of what a "trigger" is for your European viewers.😅🤣😂
OMG not just a chouette video... ...but a chouette video with commentary! (and Justin time!)
Love these videos. Thanks Justin
Dice talk my friend 😎😎😎
Oh.. "Smash the LIKE button" - I thought you were saying "Smash the LIGHT button" which I immediately did... ...and now my phone's flashlight is broken.😭
Really big fan of this format - thanks, Justin.
Great stuff 👍🏻
Whooooo new game!
Nice one, quality match and analysis.
Wanna know what I say to myself whenever I see a notification from your channel? ... "Justin time", natch! (sorry - 😉)