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So what's the correct cube action here?
Posted By: Coolrey In Response To: So what's the correct cube action here? (neilkaz)
Date: Tuesday, 7 April 2009, at 9:27 a.m.
I am not 100% sure about the correct cube action at a glance, so I can be sure that almost any opponent is going to be guessing also. Rod is no exception to that rule.
So, it's a double.
There might be enough scramble + contact equity to squeeze out a take for White, but again I am not sure about that... So it's a double.
From the other side: I am thinking I have taken worse cubes, looks like I have some equity and the second worst mistake I can make is to pass a take, (in my little approach to doubling)... So I lean towards taking.
Secondly, I don't want to instantly drop this kind of cube, even if I do pass... I want to do so reluctantly. I don't want to be giving my opponent a license to be sending me over this kind of cube for the rest of the match, [this being the first game], so I lean more towards taking. I don't want to exhibit fear early.
Having taken this cube, and forced my opponent to bring it home he will endure at least a little anxiety doing that. He may have to make a couple of marginally big plays to maxmize his equity. He may make a checker play error or two, in which case even if it was a small pass I may gain enough equity to make it a take anyway. Or, I could just get lucky, even if it is a pass...
But psychologically... I have sent him a message and he is unlikely to send this type of double over later in the match, because he now knows that I am going to fight over every point and willing to take some risk to do so. I am a tough customer, so he becomes a tentative vendor!
That is the message I want him to get in game 1 of our match, then I might not have to face scary cubes when I don't want to, later.
Double/take.
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