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Rules of Thumb to avoid crunching?
Posted By: ah_clem In Response To: Rules of Thumb to avoid crunching? (sebalotek)
Date: Friday, 18 September 2015, at 6:23 p.m.
Much good advice so far. I'll add that for beginner and intermediate players, splitting your back checkers early is a good practice. It's not always technically correct, but the errors tend to be small early in the game and once you've split your runners there is pressure to do something with them instead of just sitting on the ace point waiting patiently to lose.
As the game progresses and more ammunition is aimed at the runners the decisions get harder and the equity losses from splitting when you shouldn't or failing to split when you should grow much larger.
A good exercise might be to go look at a bunch of your games (you do save them, right?), identify early splitting decisions, and get a feel for how often you either missed a technically correct split or didn't split when it was a small error to do so. I think you won't find many where splitting is a big error, other than where there's clearly something better to do like an opening of 31.
Splitting more often early in the game may keep you out of these kinds of endings.
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