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This is directed to the entire BG community!
Posted By: Michael Sullivan In Response To: This is directed to the entire BG community! (Phil Simborg)
Date: Saturday, 11 April 2015, at 6:43 p.m.
It's kind of late to weigh in now, but I think Stick is making a separate point that money play is different from matches. As the weaker player you *never* want to make a double, redouble or take that is not technically correct, no matter the position. You want all of your decisions that vary from technically correct cube decisions to be in favor of holding down the stake.
Why not? Because you are raising the stakes against a better player. Why would you ever want to do that unless it was technically correct? You do it in a match, because you aren't really raising the stakes, they are already set for the match -- you are increasing the variance and thus the likelihood of reaching your goal of winning the match.
On the other side in a money situation, you will absolutely be right to sometimes hold a cube against Mochy that is technically a double/redouble, or drop a cube against Mochy that is technically a take. But it can never be right to go the other way unless you are playing to a specific end point (such as in a match, of if you were to use fatboy's suggestion of playing until one player is ahead by a certain amount).
As the better player, he is in the opposite situation. He should never drop or hold a cube unless that is technically correct, but the more the position advantages his skill difference, the more he should desire to double early or take aggressively.
Money cubes with skill difference end up working almost the opposite of the way it does in match play. In match play, the better player wants to reduce variance in low-skill positions, and the weaker player wants to increase it, while complicated positions tend to balance this with the stronger player's larger checker play advantages. If the position is sufficiently complicated, there may be no difference from even play, or it can even make the stronger player slightly more aggressive.
In money play, low skill positions should be played technically correct by both sides, since the play difference will be small, and there is no value to increasing variance for it's own sake, while complicated positions should have you playing conservatively and Mochy playing aggressively with the cube.
This is one further advantage to holding the cube from the start for the weaker player who understands this cube strategy-- he can't play aggressively with the cube until you give it to him, and you are more likely to do that in simpler games than in more complicated ones.
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