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Sucks to be me

Posted By: Chuck Bower
Date: Sunday, 22 September 2013, at 1:55 p.m.

In Response To: Sucks to be me (Bill Calton)

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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