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placement of a builder

Posted By: Chuck Bower
Date: Thursday, 8 November 2012, at 6:26 p.m.

In Response To: placement of a builder (Robert Andersson)

I'm sure Magriel's safe-vs-bold criteria get overused (by me, anyway, which is why I can be so sure). But here you can get some insight by applying it: White has a stronger homeboard and only White has an anchor.

What can happen here (and in my view it tends to happen more often than I would expect) is that if you spread out builders, only one slip in fending off opp's attack (e.g. opp hits loose in his board and you stay treed) can put you in serious danger because of the vulnerable outfield blots. Often best to concentrate on one thing at a time, unless of course the dice give you better opportunities. I.e. you can still build points on your side (safely) from spares on held points while looking for a chance to run out of opp's homeboard.

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• placement of a builder
  Robert Andersson -- Thursday, 8 November 2012, at 8:34 a.m.
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    poseidon -- Thursday, 8 November 2012, at 8:51 a.m.
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    Casper van der Tak -- Thursday, 8 November 2012, at 8:57 a.m.
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      Daniel Murphy -- Thursday, 8 November 2012, at 6:11 p.m.
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    niuniuch -- Thursday, 8 November 2012, at 10:07 a.m.
  • placement of a builder
    Bill Patterson -- Thursday, 8 November 2012, at 12:26 p.m.
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      Robert Andersson -- Thursday, 8 November 2012, at 5:19 p.m.
  • placement of a builder
    Chuck Bower -- Thursday, 8 November 2012, at 6:26 p.m.
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    neilkaz -- Thursday, 8 November 2012, at 6:57 p.m.