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Positions and matches from Cleveland

Posted By: Dmitriy Obukhov
Date: Wednesday, 4 April 2012, at 7:46 a.m.

Thanks to Bill Calton I was able to record 11 matches in Cleveland. At the bottom of this page is a link to 8 of them. Remaining 3 are not included since my opponents asked me not to share them. John Smidt is Mister X, my opponent from Ohio Masters final.

Let me share some memorable positions from 3 events I got myself into--Open, Masters and Doubles.

#1. On the previous roll I danced and now our opponents had to decide what to do with the cube. They doubled, and we got closed out. This was their last success in the match. They left a shot in the bear off and lost the match without scoring a single point.





White is Dmitriy Obukhov and Phil Simborg

score: 0
pip: 161
7 point match
pip: 156
score: 0

Blue is Doug roberts and Wanda Roberts
XGID=-b-a--E-C-A-dD---a-cA-b-bA:0:0:-1:00:0:0:0:7:10
Blue on roll, cube action?

eXtreme Gammon Version: 2.02

#2. This position raised some discusion during and after the match. What would you do here?





White is Stick and Mary Hickey

score: 0
pip: 73
7 point match
pip: 44
score: 0

Blue is Dmitriy Obukhov and Phil Simborg
XGID=-FDD--a-----------Abcccc--:1:1:1:00:0:0:0:7:10
Blue on roll, cube action?

eXtreme Gammon Version: 2.02

#3. In the next one I mixed my priorities. BGO readers are the smartest bg folks around and I am sure would do better than me.





White is Chris Knapp

score: 3
pip: 168
9 point match
pip: 160
score: 5

Blue is Dmitriy Obukhov
XGID=a----BCcD---cC-A-c-c-bA-A-:0:0:1:53:5:3:0:9:10
Blue to play 53

eXtreme Gammon Version: 2.02

#4. When David doubled me, my first impression was that this was an easy drop. But then the more I thought about it the more it looked like it may be a take. Finally, I convinced myself that take cannot be wrong by a lot and scooped the cube.





White is Dmitriy Obukhov

score: 0
pip: 155
9 point match
pip: 98
score: 0

Blue is David Rockwell
XGID=----BBDA----bCabaa-b-BbbbA:0:0:-1:00:0:0:0:9:10
Blue on roll, cube action?

eXtreme Gammon Version: 2.02

#5. I just hit a shot. Now what?





White is David Rockwell

score: 6
pip: 118
9 point match
pip: 113
score: 5

Blue is Dmitriy Obukhov
XGID=aBB-CBB------A-cbbAbbBab--:1:1:1:00:5:6:0:9:10
Blue on roll, cube action?

eXtreme Gammon Version: 2.02

#6. So far, everyone I showed this position to, got it wrong.




White is Doug Roberts

score: 1
pip: 8
9 point match
pip: 130
score: 5

Blue is Dmitriy Obukhov
XGID=-B-B-BBCA-------------bBbA:1:1:1:63:5:1:0:9:10
Blue to play 63

eXtreme Gammon Version: 2.02

#7. This was a long weekend. Hard for me to stay concentrated. I hope nobody [unless you are playing me] ever will repeat my mistake. I thought my back checker was blocked. This was not the only time I made this type of error.




White is Jim Slomkoski

score: 0
pip: 153
9 point match
pip: 144
score: 0

Blue is Dmitriy Obukhov
XGID=--bBB-B-Bb--bCC--babbA-b--:1:-1:1:55:0:0:0:9:10
Blue to play 55

#8. From my final of Masters. I knew I was playing much weaker opponent. I made a bunch of plays I would not normally do. Not at all sure how much of that was justified, but in the next position I thought I was making clearly the best play. I guess I was wrong.




White is Mister X

score: 3
pip: 130
11 point match
pip: 129
score: 8

Blue is Dmitriy Obukhov
XGID=---aBCD-BB--c-c----bbbb-B-:0:0:1:11:8:3:0:11:10
Blue to play 11

eXtreme Gammon Version: 2.02

#9 and #10. Cube action, and how do you play 63 after?





White is Stick

score: 6
pip: 119
11 point match
pip: 121
score: 3

Blue is Dmitriy Obukhov
XGID=-BaAABC-C---b----dBcbab-A-:0:0:1:00:3:6:0:11:10
Blue on roll, cube action?

eXtreme Gammon Version: 2.02

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