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White to play 51

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Wednesday, 16 April 2014, at 12:14 a.m.

In Response To: White to play 51 (John O'Hagan)

Even with our strong board, splitting looks too dangerous with 11 Black checkers in the zone, unless we hit 6/1* in addition to splitting. I don't particularly like 6/1* since we have that checker fairly well primed already, but this might be the best move if we can't find anything else. The main other candidates I see are the pedestrian 10/4 and the priming play 13/8 6/5. Priming is certainly a strategically reasonable game plan given that we're significantly behind in the race and have a pretty good prime in place, but getting hit on the midpoint would be costly so is 13/8 6/5 too bold? Not sure. The passive 10/4 doesn't look better than 24/23 6/1* since it gives Black too many good rolls to make his 5pt or bar point or to just jump out.

QF suggests 13/8 6/5 but I would probably play 24/23 6/1* OTB.

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