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21$-21S-61

Posted By: Igor
Date: Thursday, 15 August 2013, at 11:25 p.m.

In Response To: 21$-21S-61 (neilkaz)

There are three candidate plays that I see:

1. 24/18 6/5
2. 24/23 11/5
3. 11/5 6/5

(1) Is a thematic direct attack on white blot in the outfield given our stronger inner board. Unfortunately, I have not yet studied when it is correct to make such ambitious splits. In this position it seems that we are not under significant enough pressure to make such a provoking play. It is either marginally correct or a huge blunder, so I'd rather take my chances elsewhere.

(2) Improves our position on both sides of the board. The minor split puts a little pressure on the white outfield blot.

(3) Goes for an attack on the two white blots in our inner board. It does improve our distribution of spares, but fails to start moving our back checkers.

I think I'm leaning towards the middling play (2): make our 5pt coupled with a minor split of the back checkers.

Messages In This Thread

• 21$-21S-61
  neilkaz -- Thursday, 15 August 2013, at 7:41 p.m.
  • 21$-21S-61
    John O'Hagan -- Thursday, 15 August 2013, at 7:57 p.m.
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    Igor -- Thursday, 15 August 2013, at 11:25 p.m.
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    Keene -- Thursday, 15 August 2013, at 11:35 p.m.
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    David Rennie -- Friday, 16 August 2013, at 1:39 a.m.
  • RO
    neilkaz -- Friday, 16 August 2013, at 10:02 p.m.
    • RO
      Bob Koca -- Friday, 16 August 2013, at 10:35 p.m.
  • 21$-21S-61 - Rollout
    Stick -- Friday, 16 August 2013, at 11:23 p.m.
    • 21$-21S-61 - Rollout
      neilkaz -- Saturday, 17 August 2013, at 3:53 p.m.