Equity

How it works in play

Equity is the expected result of a position in points per game, from the side of the player on roll: +0.2 means you would win 0.2 points a game on average. Every engine figure on this site, from opening plays to PR, is an equity or a difference between two equities.

Related terms

• Cubeful / cubeless equity — A position’s expected value with and without future cube actions accounted for.
• PR — Performance rating: average equity error per decision versus a neural-net analyzer. Lower is better; world class is under 2.
• Rollout — A computer simulation playing thousands of games from a position to estimate its equity.
• EMG — "Equivalent to money game" — the normalized unit for expressing match-play equity.

Go deeper

• What PR measures
• The 15 opening rolls
• Backgammon strategy, from first roll to bear-off

In other languages

• العربيةالأفضلية (Equity)
• ΕλληνικάEquity
• فارسیاکوییتی (Equity)
• עבריתאקוויטי (Equity)
• РусскийЭквити (equity)
• TürkçeEquity (beklenen değer)