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Magriel's safe vs bold criteria: is there a hierarchy?
Posted By: leobueno
Date: Saturday, 30 May 2015, at 9:02 a.m.
I have seen Magriel's six safe vs bold criteria distilled to four, thus:
Do you have an advanced anchor?
Does your opponent have blots in his home board?
Who has the stronger home board?
Who has more checkers back?
The question is whether the criteria should be weighed differently, all other things being equal, so we can in effect quantitatively rank them. And, if so, what is the ranking?
Say a move analysis turns out like this, a 2 to 2 tie:
Do you have an advanced anchor? SAFE
Does your opponent have blots in his home board? SAFE
Who has the stronger home board? BOLD
Who has more checkers back? BOLD
Do we play safe in this case because the bold criteria are inherently weaker than the safe ones?
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