The game of backgammon ultimately becomes a race, and over the years there have been various methods proposed for estimating one's chances when the game reaches that situation. For the last 15 years or so, the game of backgammon has been transformed by computer programs that play better than the best humans. The goal of this research is to use these programs to arrive at reasonably accurate methods for determining the probability of winning the game when it becomes a race.
The results of this research would be of enormous interest to the backgammon community, and would certainly be published in the leading magazine (PrimeTime Backgammon, published by the US Backgammon Federation) and the mathematical details would be suitable for publication in a mathematics journal.