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Sucks to be me
Posted By: Chuck Bower In Response To: Sucks to be me (Bill Calton)
Date: Sunday, 22 September 2013, at 1:55 p.m.
As typical in the early game, there aren't many candidate 6's, so I concentrate on those:
24/18 + X This steps into a triple+shot, no matter the X part.
13/7 + Y This steps into a triple or double+ shot.
8/2 + Z Now (with Z being 8/6) you can limit the shot risk to 11/36.
Of course there's more to playing BG than minimizing shots, but here Blue is outboarded, has only one checker back, has a sizable pipcount lead, and even after the ugly slot still has some distribution/flexibility. Under those conditions, minimizing shots makes a lot of sense to me. (Note, if one of the spares on the 8-point were somewhere else, as on the midpoint or 6-point, then the loss of flexibility that results from taking two off the 8-point make my choice considerably less attractive.)
8/2, 8/6
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