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Golden or Bar Point?

Posted By: Rich Munitz
Date: Wednesday, 7 October 2009, at 5:12 p.m.

In Response To: Golden or Bar Point? (Martin)

Under many circumstances, I'd like making the bar since my goal is to create a full prime and this play gives the most builders to do that. But I feel like this is a bit different here.

White's board is strong, but he's out of flexibility. White will either be forced off the mid, forced to break his board, or forced to split off the 24 point. In most of these cases, a stronger homeboard will be more immediately advantageous than the bar. I actually want to force white to play small numbers since those are the ones that don't run a checker from the mid to the homeboard. 6s already do that fairly well. 4's do not. If white can clear the midpoint, blue will have complete outfield control and the escape with 6s will be less of a threat.

I make the 5 point.

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