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Efficiency, Connectivity, Non-Commitment and Robustness

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Sunday, 21 May 2017, at 5:52 p.m.

In Response To: Efficiency, Connectivity, Non-Commitment and Robustness (garyo)

In a recent email discussion, David Presser has been trying to convince me that (roughly speaking), 11 checkers in the zone is what you need to make a committal blitzing play in the early game. "Committal" here means that the move significantly reduces your ability to carry out other game plans. This seems like a reasonable rule of thumb and could be an example of using the concept of commitment.

Interestingly, though, David didn't use the concept of commitment when formulating the rule, and I was the one to suggest using the word "committal," even though, as I stated previously, I rarely use the concept of commitment in my own thinking.

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