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Cube action confusion (for me)

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Wednesday, 21 May 2014, at 3:29 p.m.

In Response To: Cube action confusion (for me) (phil simborg)

I can calculate the gammon values, but for this sort of decision, I think that a feel for the position is more important than having all the numbers at your fingertips. At 4a2a, 4a3a, or 4a4a, it should be instinctive that this kind of position is TG because of the elevated gammon value, and because unlike at 2a5a you don't have to ponder whether your opponent can take. 4a5a is tougher and I would be tempted to cash OTB but it's not surprising to me that it's TG.

The cube action at 3a5a, 5a5a, or 5a3a is tougher than at 4a because you can't just reflexively assume that this is TG, and you have to worry about your opponent's three-point board. Though I would not be confident of these OTB, the bot verdict is not too surprising to me. It's only the TG verdict at 3a3a that I find surprising. I would have expected it to be D/P at 3a3a. What's the cube action at 3a4a, by the way?

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