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BQ: Forsaking your opponent's golden point

Posted By: leobueno
Date: Sunday, 3 April 2011, at 1:21 p.m.

I seem to recall an aphorism that goes something like this: "You almost never go wrong making the defensive 5-point."

So, when an inexperienced player is clueless about a position and has the opportunity to make the opponent's five point, then what do you think we do?

The problem is that the golden point may be fool's gold. Here is one such position, according to the bot.

I figured that the safety gains of making the 5 point (especially given that I had a third man in his inner board) made up for the double shot left on my outer board.

Perversely, I noted that his hitting either of those blots would require his relinquishing my 5 point, so there, not only did I make the 5 point, but if he hit me, he would have to relinquish his!

Will appreciate an explanation of why this was such a bad play.

Thanks.

The score (after 0 games) is: diegobello 0, You 0 (match to 3 points)

Move number 17: You to play 54

diegobello	133
You	152
Position ID: M+ZwAQOM1wOCSA Match ID: cIlyAAAAAAAA

• You moves bar/20 15/11

Cube decision
4-ply cubeless equity		-0.662	(Money: -0.531)
	34.3 7.5 0.2 - 65.7 27.2 2.1
Cubeful equities:
	4-ply cubeful prune
1.	No double	-0.815
2.	Double, pass	+1.000	+1.815
3.	Double, take	-1.665	-0.850
Proper cube action:		No double, take (31.9%)

Alert: bad move ( -0.056)

#		Ply	Move	Equity
	1	4	bar/21 20/15	-0.500
			40.8 9.6 0.2 - 59.2 24.2 1.0
			4-ply cubeful prune
	2	4	bar/20 7/3	-0.543 ( -0.042)
			37.8 8.0 0.1 - 62.2 16.0 0.3
			4-ply cubeful prune
•	3	4	bar/20 15/11	-0.556 ( -0.056)
			38.0 8.7 0.2 - 62.0 18.9 0.6
			4-ply cubeful prune
	4	4	bar/20 8/4	-0.585 ( -0.085)
			38.4 9.5 0.2 - 61.6 23.4 1.1
			4-ply cubeful prune
	5	0	bar/20 6/2	-0.634 ( -0.134)
			37.0 8.6 0.2 - 63.0 21.8 1.0
			0-ply cubeful prune [expert]
	6	0	bar/21 15/10	-1.000 ( -0.500)
			32.7 8.2 0.2 - 67.3 34.8 3.2
			0-ply cubeful prune [expert]

Messages In This Thread

• BQ: Forsaking your opponent's golden point
  leobueno -- Sunday, 3 April 2011, at 1:21 p.m.
  • BQ: Forsaking your opponent's golden point
    Lucas Bauer -- Sunday, 3 April 2011, at 3:47 p.m.
    • BQ: Forsaking your opponent's golden point
      Casper van der Tak -- Sunday, 3 April 2011, at 6:04 p.m.
  • BQ: Forsaking your opponent's golden point
    garyo -- Sunday, 3 April 2011, at 4:13 p.m.