My previous five experiments of 100 games sessions each were
to see how I would do against XGR++ making decisions that I
considered better while it considered blunder, with each new
session having new twist/s added.

As I ran out of realistic "twists" to add for another similar
experiment, I decided to come up with some completely different
conditions to create new interesting experiments. The first one
I wanted to try was playing my first roll using my back pieces,
using up both numbers as much as possible if legal moves allowed.

It was very difficult to get used to not rushing to make opening
moves on auto-pilot and then to gradually figure out where to go
from those "forced opening moves". I played hundreds of games to
become convinced that I could manage to not lose terribly, if not
win, against XGR++.

Finally I felt ready to play a 100 games session, which I did in
the past two days. Results are as follows:

My errors rates were 13.89 checker, 31.09 cube and 16.91 overall.
I was quite surprised that they weren't as high as I expedted.

My effective loss was -56 vs. expected -79 (i.e. +57 more points
won than I should have according to the bot). This is better than
what I had dreaded but very frustrating/disappointing in the end
because I was quite ahead for the first 45 games, then still in
the positive until the 70th game, after which I steadily declined
and finished with -22. At the 75th game mark, instead of going to
bed, I decided to keep playing and finish it, which was a mistake.
After another 3+ hours, I got done at 3:40am with increasingly
hastily/badly played last 25 games. Still, I won't make excuses.
It is what it is.

What is really striking is that my average luck was +0.0019,
exactly the same as the average of average lucks in my previous
6 sessions!

And there is more. I won 38 games and of the 62 that I lost, in
6 games I had zero or positive luck but I never won a game with
zero or negative luck.

Those match almost exactly the averages of my previous 6 sessions,
41% won, 59% lost, with 7.4% of games lost having zero or positive
luck and no games won having zero or negative luck.

The results are very telling for me, to the level proof for my
speculations that I had mentioned now and then as possibilities.

Whatever you make out of them is up you...