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Alex Schofield

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Monday, 2 February 2015, at 9:29 p.m.

In Response To: Alex Schofield (Alex Schofield)

Alex wrote:

I thought I was a considerably better player than my opponent which factored into the decision as I think this position plays quite easily for him.

This sounds like a fallacy to me. If it's a bot pass then how can it be a take against a player who you think is going to play this like the bot? Unless you think that you're going to play this game worse than your opponent will, so that your equity is lower than what the bot thinks it is?

Perhaps the argument is that you have a fixed amount of time to play so you want to move on to the next game quickly which you hope your opponent will play worse?

By the way, I don't think that this is a particularly easy game to play for an intermediate player. Most intermediates don't capitalize aggressively enough on strong positions. They won't win as many gammons as a bot would. That makes the position even more of a take.

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