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A surprising (to me) save-the-gammon play

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Thursday, 17 December 2015, at 1:50 a.m.

In Response To: A surprising (to me) save-the-gammon play (David Levy)

We normally think of "wasting pips" as applying only to the crossover from our outer board to our inner board, but to a lesser extent, "wasting pips" is also a concept that applies to crossovers from the opponent's outer board to our own outer board. 13/8 wastes pips in this latter sense. 13/8 is the baby brother of the obviously pip-wasting 7/2.

The other thing to note is that 13/8 stacks two checkers onto the same point, which is bad from a diversification point of view.

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