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Containment play.
Posted By: Chase In Response To: Containment play. (stw672)
Date: Thursday, 8 April 2010, at 6:15 p.m.
You can't do anything about 66 or 33. 55 is already blocked. 21/16 18/16 blocks 44 while still giving you a shot from the bar if White rolls 55, so that might be right, though you get hit twice with 55 and White's 11 is crushing. I'm inclined to take a chance on something like 19/12, which exposes you to a direct shot, but otherwise keeps good coverage and gets a checker closer to the home board where it can be of help.
I wouldn't necessarily trust a bot on this. I played a game a few days ago against XG where I found myself in an unenviable position something like the one below. Several times while I was trying to mobilize a containment force, XG hit me loose on his 2pt. I was never able to figure out why it would do so sometimes and not others, so perhaps this is the correct strategy, but I suspect it isn't. In any case, once I saw this, I was able to simply keep slotting the point, get hit, scoop up several checkers, and cruise to a win fairly easily. Your position is obviously different, but if XG is incorrectly hitting loose on his 2pt along the way, it may favor running Blue off of that point when it should be staying. Maybe the bot knows what it's doing here, but maybe not.
Money Game
Blue on roll. Cube action?White 46
Blue 257 GNUBg Id: /AMAIGwAAJX+AA:UQkAAAAAAAAA
XGID=-BBa---------------AAAhAG-:1:1:1:00:0:0:0:0:10
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