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Best anchors for strongest backgame?

Posted By: Chuck Bower
Date: Thursday, 12 January 2012, at 4:51 p.m.

In Response To: Best anchors for strongest backgame? (Casper van der Tak)

1-4 and 1-5 are quite poor....

If I may pick a nit, I wouldn't put these two in the same category. The 1-4 (24-21) is considerably better than the 1-5 (24-20). It's not as good as the 2-4 (23-21), to confirm Trice's contention (echoed by ah_clem) that points separated by three tend to be worse than points separated by two.

(See Woolsey's Cube Reference Postions for some admittedly dated rollout results on some different backgame structures.)

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• Best anchors for strongest backgame?
  sebalotek -- Thursday, 12 January 2012, at 2:11 p.m.
  • Best anchors for strongest backgame?
    Casper van der Tak -- Thursday, 12 January 2012, at 2:36 p.m.
    • Best anchors for strongest backgame?
      Chuck Bower -- Thursday, 12 January 2012, at 4:51 p.m.
      • Best anchors for strongest backgame?
        Casper van der Tak -- Thursday, 12 January 2012, at 5:02 p.m.
        • Best anchors for strongest backgame?
          Daniel Murphy -- Thursday, 12 January 2012, at 5:58 p.m.
          • Best anchors for strongest backgame?
            Casper van der Tak -- Thursday, 12 January 2012, at 6:11 p.m.
      • Best anchors for strongest backgame?
        neilkaz -- Thursday, 12 January 2012, at 6:15 p.m.
  • Best anchors for strongest backgame?
    Ian Shaw -- Thursday, 12 January 2012, at 3:06 p.m.
    • +1 for the 24-in-1 link to bkgm.com *NM*
      Daniel Murphy -- Thursday, 12 January 2012, at 6:43 p.m.
  • Best anchors for strongest backgame?
    ah_clem -- Thursday, 12 January 2012, at 3:25 p.m.
  • Best anchors for strongest backgame?
    kruidenbuiltje -- Thursday, 12 January 2012, at 3:37 p.m.
    • Best anchors for strongest backgame?
      sebalotek -- Thursday, 12 January 2012, at 10:28 p.m.
      • Best anchors for strongest backgame?
        Casper van der Tak -- Thursday, 12 January 2012, at 10:48 p.m.
        • Best anchors for strongest backgame?
          sebalotek -- Thursday, 12 January 2012, at 11:05 p.m.
          • Best anchors for strongest backgame?
            Stick -- Friday, 13 January 2012, at 1:52 a.m.
            • +1 *NM*
              Casper van der Tak -- Friday, 13 January 2012, at 8:14 a.m.
            • Best anchors for strongest backgame?
              sebalotek -- Friday, 13 January 2012, at 8:48 a.m.
      • Best anchors for strongest backgame?
        leemo -- Saturday, 14 January 2012, at 6:19 a.m.
    • Best anchors for strongest backgame?
      kruidenbuiltje -- Friday, 13 January 2012, at 12:13 p.m.
      • Best anchors for strongest backgame?
        sebalotek -- Friday, 13 January 2012, at 12:48 p.m.
  • Best anchors for strongest backgame?
    Stick -- Thursday, 12 January 2012, at 5:33 p.m.
    • Best anchors for strongest backgame?
      ah_clem -- Thursday, 12 January 2012, at 9:38 p.m.
      • Best anchors for strongest backgame?
        neilkaz -- Friday, 13 January 2012, at 12:46 a.m.
  • A concrete example
    Timothy Chow -- Friday, 13 January 2012, at 2:47 p.m.