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Slotting with doublets — 53P-53P-65R-42P-65R-22$
Posted By: Taper_Mike In Response To: Slotting with doublets — 53P-53P-65R-42P-65R-22$ (Timothy Chow)
Date: Wednesday, 9 November 2011, at 12:15 a.m.
This is one of those apple-and-oranges comparisions about which I am still fuzzy. The 6pt Convention is applied in two steps. The first step is to compare the positions of points that are made or retained. At least I think that is the case. See my other post from today. It surmises that the Owned Points portion of the 6pt Convention can be applied thusly:
Begin at the 6pt, and search outwards in both directions one point at a time until you find a point that is made in one position and not in the other. The position in which the point is made outranks the other.
If so, then the plays I nactated as D and d are right, because the made 11pt is closer to the 6pt than the 13pt.
If not, then the next part of the 6pt Convention comes into play: the comparison of the locations of blots and spares that were moved. Here's the apples-and-oranges part. How does one compare a play that does not move a checker so as to create a new blot or spare with one that does? In any event, by Nactation standards, the blot on the 7pt is highly undesirable. The 6pt Wrinkle prefers blots and spares be placed as high in the near-side outer board as possible. In his post, Nack explains the wrinkle using this language:
In the outer board, the destination of a blot/spare closer to the 6pt ranks lower.
Another point of confusion for me is whether the wrinkle is applied as a third step in the application of the 6pt Convention, or whether it is part of the normal comparison of the locations of blots and spares.
Mike
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