Richard Lukas vs. Gultekin Uygur at motav tournament

Motav tournament played in Istanbul Metro Cafe 22.2.2011

third of 3 matches

 

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7 pts match, Score is  Richard Lukas: 0,  Gultekin Uygur  :7

xg summery: 

Richard Lukas	Category	Gultekin Uygur
Advanced (-0.0157)	Total Error	Casual Player (-0.0348)
Advanced (-0.0151)	Checker Play	Intermediate (-0.0251)
Advanced (-0.0163)	Cube Play	Beginner (-0.0504)
7.9	Performance Rating	17.7

Snowie summery: 

Match simplified statistics (EMG Rated)
Player	Gultekin Uygur	Richard Lukas
Rating	novice	advanced
Overall	19.535	8.700
Checker play	13.307	3.835
Double	2.703	4.866
Take	3.525	0.000
Favorite
Richard Lukas was 60.26% - 39.74% favorite.

Fianlly a good playing opponent so i thought. And suddenly i play better. Advanced on the border to professional. But the funny thing is that he didnt played good at all. He played much worse then all others.

An upmost unbelievebel match. I reached a new record of minusluck. So far my reconrd was -37 which many people couldnt belive it is possible. But this time i made it to a luckrate of  -45.7 !!!!

Loosing 0 -7 as 60% favorite tells everything anyway.

There was just nothing interessting in this match to point out. A perfect first Game with no error. But 2 antijoker after a blunder from Gultekin. Second game also nearly perfect. one litte unimportend error. Biggest mistake was to double as it was too good to double but he took the cube anyway. 

Only in the third game a had my one and only blunder i this match. Fortuna really hates me.

Richard Lukas vs. Cemil Güzelis at motav tournament

Motav tournament played in Istanbul Metro Cafe 22.2.2011

second of 3 matches

 

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7 pts match, Score is  Richard Lukas: 7,  Cemil Güzelis  :2

xg summery: 

Richard Lukas	Category	Cemil Güzelis
Intermediate (-0.0261)	Total Error	Intermediate (-0.0342)
Intermediate (-0.0267)	Checker Play	Casual Player (-0.0376)
Advanced (-0.0228)	Cube Play	Advanced (-0.0222)
13.1	Performance Rating	17.1

Snowie summery: 

Match simplified statistics (EMG Rated)
Player	Richard Lukas	Cemil Güzelis
Rating	beginner	novice
Overall	14.937	20.959
Checker play	12.322	16.989
Double	2.615	2.821
Take	0.000	1.149
Favorite
Richard Lukas was 60.12% - 39.88% favorite.

The same story like the last match. awful played but still better then my opponent so the win is ok i guess

Most interessting Positions during the match:

There was not much interessting. Mostly really stupid blunders on both sides.

This blunder made me wonder. equityloss -0.305

right move 21/15 10/6

Richard Lukas vs. Balım Ayasli at motav tournament

Motav tournament played in Istanbul Metro Cafe 22.2.2011

first of 3 matches

 

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7 pts match, Score is  Richard Lukas: 7,  Balım Ayasli  :6

xg summery: 

Richard Lukas	Category	Balim Ayasli
Intermediate (-0.0301)	Total Error	Beginner (-0.0481)
Intermediate (-0.0282)	Checker Play	Casual Player (-0.0393)
Casual Player (-0.0393)	Cube Play	Distracted (-0.0816)
15.1	Performance Rating	24.1

Snowie summery: 

Match simplified statistics (EMG Rated)
Player	Richard Lukas	Balim Ayasli
Rating	beginner	novice
Overall	16.024	21.481
Checker play	12.262	13.247
Double	3.479	4.792
Take	0.283	3.442
Favorite
Richard Lukas was 65.61% - 34.39% favorite.

My classic weakness when playing a weak player. i play awful myself. finally i won with a luckrate of -2.3 but an errorrate of 16 is unacceptable bad.

Most interessting Positions during the match:

Allready at my second move i start my first high value blunder. I think many of us would have played like this and it dont look so bad to me. But rollouts dont lie, i loose 0.155 equity here.

right move is 13/8

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This is a very interessting situation. My first thought was to close the 3. But looking deeper in the position i saw some disasterrolls and i was right. It would have been a equityloss of 0.531 !! There are 11 better moves then this. Would you have seen them ? Unfortunate the right move did not came to my mind. I played the second best option which is allready a blunder of 0.164 equity loss.

here the right thing to do

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This dont happen often if at all before. a high value blunder with my first move.

equityloss of 0.190

I thought about the right move but thought hitting is stronger.

Right move 13/11(2) 6/4(2)

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Finally i won as the better player but i was very close to loose it with playing just half that good as normal.

Richard Lukas vs. Aysun Utkular

Yakin Takip tournament played in Istanbul Chops Cafe 10.2.2011
fourth of 4 matches

 

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5 pts match, Score is  Richard Lukas: 5,  Aysun Utkular   :0

xg summery: 

Richard Lukas	Category	Aysun Utkular
Advanced (-0.0159)	Total Error	Advanced (-0.0219)
Expert (-0.0136)	Checker Play	Advanced (-0.0178)
Advanced (-0.0234)	Cube Play	Beginner (-0.0574)
8.0	Performance Rating	11.0

snowie summery:

Match simplified statistics (EMG Rated)
Player	Aysun Utkular	Richard Lukas
Rating	beginner	advanced
Overall	13.328	8.583
Checker play	9.441	5.495
Double	2.034	3.088
Take	1.853	0.000
Favorite
Richard Lukas was 54.56% - 45.44% favorite.

again such disagreement inbetween snowie and XG. however this match was a contest of wrong doubledecissions.

interessting positions in the Match:

allready in peepadvantage i thought running here is better then closing my house behind my opponents checkers but its a big blunder. 

0.166 equity i loose with this move.

7/3 6/3 is the right move

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right the next move aysun present back what i gave before with a extraordinary big blunder.

hitting here is a must but that she loose 0.411 equite still suprised me.

right move 13/11 6/5

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this was the only right double i did in this match ending up in a drop blunder.

Aysun still have a 25% chance to win this game. and the gammondanger is just 2%

a double 5 or double 6 and she is favorite. also i could have troubles to save my stones from 13.

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this blunder of Aysun is noteworthy. i would have done the same move.

equityloss 0.109

right move 24/21 20/14

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why ever this is a blunder. in similar situation it was a big blunder not to hit for Aysun before.

 -0.147  equity

right move 13/8 24/23

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lets start the cubecontest. Aysuns second cubeblunder

right action: double/drop

2 moves later my turn with my first cubeblunder
i am just 2 pips in front. interessting it is a blunder. i guess she would have taken the cube.

right action: double/drop

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my second cubeblunder. i thought it is too good to doulbe. i saw a good chance to get another checker during the next 2 rolls. 

right action: double/take

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end of the contest with my 3th double mistake

too good to double. i actually didnt see a big gammonchance here so i doubled.

Richard Lukas vs. Serdar Özkaya

Yakin Takip tournament played in Istanbul Chops Cafe 10.2.2011
third of 4 matches

 

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5 pts match, Score is  Richard Lukas: 5,  Serdar Özkaya  :0

xg summery:

Richard Lukas	Category	Serdar Özkaya
Expert (-0.0105)	Total Error	Advanced (-0.0191)
Expert (-0.0102)	Checker Play	Advanced (-0.0215)
Expert (-0.0132)	Cube Play	World Class (-0.0075)
5.2	Performance Rating	9.6

snowie summery:

Match simplified statistics (EMG Rated)
Player	Serdar Özkaya	Richard Lukas
Rating	intermediate	expert
Overall	11.306	5.007
Checker play	10.373	3.420
Double	0.933	1.587
Take	0.000	0.000
Favorite
Richard Lukas was 57.07% - 42.93% favorite.

Most interessting Positions during the match:

 this move is considered as blunder. equity -0.108. i really dont get it.

whats the big difference to justifice this big loss?

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Richard Lukas vs. Ramazan Özgür

Yakin Takip tournament played in Istanbul Chops Cafe 10.2.2011
second of 4 matches

 

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5 pts match, Score is  Richard Lukas: 5, Ramazan Özgür   :0

xg summery:

Richard Lukas	Category	Ramazan Özgür
Expert (-0.0134)	Total Error	Intermediate (-0.0324)
Expert (-0.0133)	Checker Play	Advanced (-0.0191)
Expert (-0.0138)	Cube Play	Distracted (-0.0934)
6.7	Performance Rating	16.2

 

snowie summery:

Match simplified statistics (EMG Rated)
Player	Ramazan Özgür	Richard Lukas
Rating	beginner	expert
Overall	16.136	5.619
Checker play	7.606	5.174
Double	0.886	0.445
Take	7.644	0.000
Favorite
Richard Lukas was 56.91% - 43.09% favorite.

 

Most interessting Positions during the match:

 

 there was only one mistake of mine in this match. too good to double.

but finally it was not because he accepted :)

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a desperate aproach of Ramazan to double back her:

doubleblunder -0.114

Richard Lukas vs. Nefra Erda

Yakin Takip tournament played in Istanbul Chops Cafe 10.2.2011
first of 4 matches

 

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5 pts match, Score is  Richard Lukas: 0,  Nefra Erda  :5

xg summery: 

Richard Lukas	Category	Nefra Erda
Advanced (-0.0157)	Total Error	Expert (-0.0108)
Expert (-0.0100)	Checker Play	Expert (-0.0132)
Distracted (-0.0990)	Cube Play	World Champ. (+0.0000)
7.9	Performance Rating	5.4

Snowie summery:

Match simplified statistics (EMG Rated)
Player	Nefra Erda	Richard Lukas
Rating	advanced	expert
Overall	7.319	5.871
Checker play	7.319	3.217
Double	0.000	1.721
Take	0.000	0.933
Favorite
Richard Lukas was 54.24% - 45.76% favorite.

I definitly agree with XG and start doubting about the use of Snowie. 

What i learned out of this match is that i definitly should stop trying to be the nice guy.

I was disracted of not following rules even after asking for but didnt wanted to annoy with insisting. The result was that i was annoyed myself too much. Better my opponent is annoyed then me during playing. I will change this attitude in future. There is no need that everybody likes me :)

Most interessting Positions during the match:

Not much interresting happend in this match.

Here i was aware of the close race but thought i am in favorit position and i really wanted to be this match over so i doubled back. i was just 58% favorite, i thought it is more

of course a blunder -0.287

Loosing here cost me the win of the tournament as i won all following matches.

Richard Lukas vs. Vedat Özcan

Turkeyleaguematch played in Istanbul Chops Cafe 6.2.2011

 

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11 pts match, Score is  Richard Lukas: 11,  Vedat Özcan  : 3

xg summery: 

Richard Lukas	Category	Vedat Özcan
Advanced (-0.0189)	Total Error	Advanced (-0.0190)
Advanced (-0.0167)	Checker Play	Advanced (-0.0201)
Intermediate (-0.0306)	Cube Play	Expert (-0.0141)
9.4	Performance Rating	9.5

Snowie summery:

 

Match simplified statistics (EMG Rated)
Player	Richard Lukas	Vedat Özcan
Rating	intermediate	intermediate
Overall	9.603	9.273
Checker play	6.739	8.214
Double	2.850	0.355
Take	0.014	0.704
Favorite
Richard Lukas was 50.98% - 49.02% favorite.

At least one win this weekend even i again did not played really good. Was not my day.I dont know how valid the analize of Vedats play is because he did 2 illegal moves (both to his unfavor) which may corrupt the result. Once he played 3 times 2 at a double 2. and once he moved over my checker with a double 3 and didnt took out my checker. i told him after the game and he didnt believed me. But i have videoproof :)

 

Most interessting Positions during the match:

3 blunders in a raw ! What a success. With them i messed up my expert rating.

This blunder is interessting. I even would like to disagree. Does it make sense to argue with a rollout ?

I guess not. I feared the double 5 here which could end up badly in a gammon therefor i moved away from 22

but 8/6 would be the right move. difference -0.095

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Just the next move i did a blunder again. It didnt looked so bad to me to keep the checker on the 5. A roll  5/1 or 5/3 would be not good but if he comes in with 2 or 3 i am in pretty good position.

however 13/7 5/4 is the right move. difference -0.080

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and the third... grrrrr

What a disaster roll. I didnt see any alternativ moves here but its a blunder again.

The right move here looks really insane.

Would anybody of you have done this ? the equiditydifference is -0.191

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 Two in one. A checker and cube blunder. 

I thought too good to double. a good chance to hit 2 checkers or hit and close the 2

both looks pretty good for a gammon but not to double was a blunder. -0.105

of course non of the many good rolls where coming but still i saw a good chance for gammon and the risk to hit the 2 looked reasonable. also i keep the pressure and may be able to hit on 21.

but all my thougts was pretty wrong... a really big blunder -0.492

8/4 6/4 is the move

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also this looks interessting even we both did the right decision,

i thought it is a drop but double/take was correct.

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another position where i am tempted to argue with the rollout :)

my move looks so pretty but -0.191

8/3 is the right move. As longer i look at it as lesser i can belive it.

Richard Lukas vs. Albert Gabay

Turkeyleaguematch played in Istanbul Chops Cafe 6.2.2011

 

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11 pts match, Score is  Richard Lukas: 1,  Albert Gabay: 11

xg summery: 

Richard Lukas	Category	Albert Gabay
Advanced (-0.0197)	Total Error	Expert (-0.0138)
Expert (-0.0138)	Checker Play	World Class (-0.0094)
Beginner (-0.0497)	Cube Play	Beginner (-0.0565)
9.8	Performance Rating	6.9

Snowie summery:

Match simplified statistics (EMG Rated)
Player	Richard Lukas	Albert Gabay
Rating	intermediate	advanced
Overall	11.747	7.585
Checker play	7.228	5.225
Double	2.437	0.497
Take	2.082	1.862
Favorite
Albert Gabay was 56.22% - 43.78% favorite.

Awful played, ashaming ! Searched for excuses but coulnd find any. Maybe temporary Insanity :)

Interessting is the difference of the Cube Play in the analyses inbetween Snowie and XG of Alberts play.

Most interessting Positions during the match:

I forgot the basic rule number 1 of checkerplay i teach to all beginners. "CLOSE THE 5"

even it looked so convenient to hit, closing the 5 is in 95% of the cases the right move

equidityloss of -0.102 not to close 5

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This position is really interessting. I think nearly everybody of us would have moved in the house like i did.

The right move here looks very scary and i would have considered as big blunder because the danger to get gammoned seems to be very high to me.

My move 6/4 5/2 is a equidityloss of -0.129

doesnt this move look insane? :)

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 This Position looked very heavy to me. Convinient enough for doubeling back to 8. especially considering the score of 4 - 1. I think i would have dropped the Cube. But Albert was right taking it. He is still slightly favorite in the game with 50.59% and my double is considered as blunder.

This sample would have been a very nice Quizzquestion :)

two most interessting positions

Its a bit offtopic because it was a unimportend online match but so interessting that i want to share.

The following two positions happen to me.
To be honest... I just dont fully understand the result of the analyze.

i felt really strong here and doubled. i was sure it is correct to double.

there is close to no roll which could make a problem and lots of rolls for a perfect go.

44, 55, 51,61 are clear winners. what ever my thoughts are wrong doubeling is considered as error.

chance to win the game is 71.48%. i really dont understand that doubeling here is a error

doubleclick the pictures to enlarge

but if you think such unclear situations are exeption here we go:

the same match just 2 games later i am in a situation where i somehow dont feel so extreme strong.

analize say that my chance to win is 71.03 %. the chance to win the game is lesser then the first example.

i didnt doubled and guess what !?? its a blunder not to double !!! isnt it crazy ?

the diffence is that in this case i have a 22 % chance for a gammon and nearly no chance for gammon in the first case. but come on, a blunder !

your oppinion is very welcome. share your thoughts about it.

Richard Lukas vs. Abbas ugur sümer

Turkeyleaguematch played in Istanbul Chops Cafe 6.2.2011

 

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11 pts match, Score is  Richard Lukas: 6,  Abbas ugur sümer: 11

xg summery:

Richard Lukas	Category	Abbas ugur sümer
Expert (-0.0138)	Total Error	Advanced (-0.0208)
Expert (-0.0133)	Checker Play	Intermediate (-0.0252)
Advanced (-0.0162)	Cube Play	World Class (-0.0062)
6.9	Performance Rating	10.4

Snowie summery:

Match simplified statistics (EMG Rated)
Player	Richard Lukas	Abbas ugur sümer
Rating	advanced	beginner
Overall	6.021	12.613
Checker play	4.674	12.028
Double	1.347	0.528
Take	0.000	0.057
Favorite
Richard Lukas was 65.91% - 34.09% favorite.

Most interessting Position during the match:

There was not much interessting in this match other then increddible lucky rolls.

wouldnt have guessed the big equiditydifference here:

13/4     +0.001

           20/11    -0.141 (-0.140)

Richard Lukas vs. Seda Koç

Karma doubleelimination played in Istanbul Dalyan Club 29.1.2011

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9 pts match, Score is
Richard Lukas: 3

Seda Koç: 9

Richard Lukas	Category	Seda koc
Expert (-0.0123)	Total Error	Expert (-0.0109)
Expert (-0.0117)	Checker Play	Expert (-0.0102)
Expert (-0.0147)	Cube Play	Expert (-0.0145)
6.2	Performance Rating	5.5

Richard Lukas	Game Per Game	Seda koc
World Class (-0.0091)	Game 1	Advanced (-0.0238)
World Class (-0.0072)	Game 2	Expert (-0.0109)
Advanced (-0.0235)	Game 3	World Class (-0.0096)
World Class (-0.0077)	Game 4	World Champ. (-0.0043)
Intermediate (-0.0258)	Game 5	Expert (-0.0134)
World Champ. (-0.0033)	Game 6	World Champ. (-0.0040)

Richard Lukas	Category	Seda koc
15(6) -1.429(-12.98%)	Move Errors Equity lost (cost)	13(5) -1.214(-8.76%)
5(3) -0.470(-3.18%)	Double Error Equity lost (cost)	0 -0.017(-0.26%)
0 +0.000	Take Error Equity lost (cost)	1(1) -0.346(-1.88%)
2	Outplay	0
20(9) -1.898(-16.16%)	Total Error Equity lost (cost)	14(6) -1.577(-10.90%)
10 -2.380(-43.42%)	Jokers Luck	18 +2.380(+43.42%)
Expert 6.2	Level of play Performance Rating	Expert 5.5

 

good performance from both of us, deserved win from Seda. Well done

most interessting Positions in the Match:

should have counted the pips. thought i am in front after the doubl 5

white Pip 125(+19) / brown Pip 106 (-19)

13/8 13/3 6/1            -0.060

              18/8(2)                      -0.141 (-0.081)

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Interessting bearoff blunder from Seda. Equidityloss of 0.115

6/5(2) 2/Off        -0.736

             2/Off (2)             -0.851 (0.115)

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Stupid blunder, of course i should have closed the 5

amazing how big equidityloss it cause -0.160

8/5 6/5        +0.006

             13/9            -0.154 (-0.160)