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Simple once you see it?

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Tuesday, 1 September 2015, at 12:05 a.m.

In Response To: Simple once you see it? (Chase)

I find "attack or prime" plays difficult. My preferred attacking play is 11/3*(2) rather than 11/3* 8/4(2) because I don't want to be leaving a direct shot with White's fairly strong board and all my blots. If we prime instead, then 13/9 11/7(2) seems automatic and then we have to find a fourth 4. Splitting looks wrong so it's either 10/6 or 8/4. 8/4 threatens to make a six-prime but it's costly to get hit; I think I'd chicken out with 10/6.

Finally we can consider neither attacking nor running but escaping instead. 13/9 still looks mandatory and then what? 21/17(2) 10/6 I guess. I don't like it. We're still behind in the race.

At DMP, priming tends to take precedence over attacking, though putting a checker on the bar is a good way of winning too. Here it seems that 11/3*(2) leaves a few too many return shots for comfort. I will try 13/9 11/7(2) 10/6.

By the way, ironically, this is the sort of position that makes me want to play touch-move, because it's too easy to lose track of the original position if one shuffles around the checkers a lot.

Messages In This Thread

• Simple once you see it?
  Chase -- Monday, 31 August 2015, at 6:14 p.m.
  • Simple once you see it?
    Alex Schofield -- Monday, 31 August 2015, at 7:44 p.m.
  • Simple once you see it?
    Keene -- Monday, 31 August 2015, at 9:00 p.m.
  • Simple once you see it?
    Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 1 September 2015, at 12:05 a.m.
    • Simple once you see it?
      Chase -- Tuesday, 1 September 2015, at 12:18 a.m.