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New paper on openings and replies

Posted By: Axel Reichert
Date: Friday, 28 May 2021, at 8:15 p.m.

Hello,

some time back, I started a project of a dumbed down version of Jeremy Bagai's great article "Bagai's Replies: Mastering the Second Roll" for dumbed down players like myself:

http://www.bgonline.org/forums/webbbs_config.pl?read=199797

It took me some time, but now the thing is ready as an article on Tom Keith's website:

https://bkgm.com/articles/Reichert/first-two-rolls.pdf

It is not a mere subset of Jeremy's outstanding work, but contains quite a lot of original thought:

- The framework of "hitting, after hitting, no hitting"

- The concept of a library with two moves per roll

- The "Rule of 12"

- The unified framework for doublets

- "aim for 4 on mid"

- "no double shot on near side"

- "no direct shot across the bar"

- "run past all"

And, best of all, it comes with flowcharts that may serve as a cheat sheet until you have commited the (fewer and simpler, but less accurate) rules to memory:

https://bkgm.com/articles/Reichert/first-two-rolls-flowcharts.pdf

Any and all comments and criticisms very welcome!

Best regards

Axel