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Dorbel v. Stick - Remarkable backgame defense

Posted By: Taper_Mike
Date: Sunday, 24 July 2011, at 7:23 p.m.

As many readers here already know, Stick Rice and Paul Money (aka, Dorbel) played an exhibition match on FIBS this past June 24. The XG files can be downloaded here:

http://fibsleagammon.free.fr/match/dorbel_vs_Stick/

The match contains some facinating decisions, a few of which were discussed here:

http://www.bgonline.org/forums/webbbs_config.pl?noframes;read=100792

Even more interesting to me was the mammoth backgame and defense played in game 8, the final game of the match. It was an endurance bout, with 56 moves by each player! Moves 10 through 20 demonstrate some ultra-modern backgame tactics. At one point, where Stick had already built a full 6-prime, XG Roller++ recommends that Paul should try the hari-kari maneuver! And this even before Paul had built his second anchor! Stick's defense is super accurate, and includes some amazingly counter-intuitive moves, especially in the key plays between turns 10 and 20. If you don't check out anything else, take a look at that sequence.

Here is one of those positions.

Mike





White is dorbel

score: 3
pip: 200
11 point match
pip: 128
score: 9

Blue is Stick
XGID=aaacBBCBBB----b--aabbAaA--:1:1:1:52:9:3:0:11:10
Blue to play 52

eXtreme Gammon Version: 2.00

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