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32S-53S-33M-64S-63$-51

Posted By: Nack Ballard
Date: Tuesday, 17 January 2012, at 5:32 p.m.

In Response To: What would you do with this 51? **ROLLOUT** (Michael Depreli)

32S-53S-33M-64S-63$-51

Looks like I missed the fun. (I usually scroll past threads that don't seem to be about early game positions. Sometimes I click when RO or ROLLOUT appears in the header, as it did here.)

It is thematic to slot in front of an anchor (though more so when Opp's board is not stronger than one's own). Hence d (down, 13/7) should certainly make it onto the list of strong candidates.

Slotting the 5pt tends to be better than slotting the 7pt (examples of both appear at the above link), but in this case slotting the 5pt is clearly worse. The reason is that after Blue plays d (down, 13/7), ALL of White's aces hit on the 20pt and either cover the 4pt or hit a second checker. By contrast, after Blue plays $ (Slot, 13/8 6/5) it is with fewer than half of her 3s (43 33 32) that White is much better off hitting on the 18pt than playing on her own side of the board.

I expect d to do well with XG, just as it did with GnuBG. I'll do a rollout anyway, though, and post it. Nice position, Michael.

Nack

Messages In This Thread

• What would you do with this 51?
  Michael Depreli -- Monday, 16 January 2012, at 10:03 p.m.
  • What would you do with this 51?
    Timothy Chow -- Monday, 16 January 2012, at 11:01 p.m.
    • Peeked at the bot and...
      Timothy Chow -- Monday, 16 January 2012, at 11:07 p.m.
  • What would you do with this 51?
    Ian Shaw -- Monday, 16 January 2012, at 11:07 p.m.
  • What would you do with this 51?
    Dmitriy Obukhov -- Tuesday, 17 January 2012, at 4:28 a.m.
  • What would you do with this 51? **ROLLOUT**
    Michael Depreli -- Tuesday, 17 January 2012, at 12:10 p.m.
    • What would you do with this 51? **ROLLOUT**
      Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 17 January 2012, at 2:25 p.m.
      • What would you do with this 51? **ROLLOUT**
        Christian Munk-Christensen -- Tuesday, 17 January 2012, at 2:48 p.m.
    • What would you do with this 51? **ROLLOUT**
      Casper van der Tak -- Tuesday, 17 January 2012, at 3:59 p.m.
    • 32S-53S-33M-64S-63$-51
      Nack Ballard -- Tuesday, 17 January 2012, at 5:32 p.m.
      • 32S-53S-33M-64S-63$-51
        Stick -- Tuesday, 17 January 2012, at 6:13 p.m.
        • 32S-53S-33M-64
          Nack Ballard -- Tuesday, 17 January 2012, at 6:56 p.m.
          • 32S-53S-33M-64
            Stick -- Tuesday, 17 January 2012, at 7:57 p.m.
      • 32S-53S-33M-64S-63$-51
        Ben E. -- Tuesday, 17 January 2012, at 8:09 p.m.
      • 32S-53S-33M-64S-63$-51
        Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 17 January 2012, at 8:11 p.m.
        • 32S-53S-33M-64S-63$-51
          Nack Ballard -- Tuesday, 17 January 2012, at 10:31 p.m.
          • 32S-53S-33M-64S-63$-51
            Timothy Chow -- Thursday, 19 January 2012, at 3:49 p.m.
            • 32S-53S-33M-64S-63$-51
              Nack Ballard -- Thursday, 19 January 2012, at 8:23 p.m.
      • 32S-53S-33M-64S-63$-51
        Casper van der Tak -- Tuesday, 17 January 2012, at 8:13 p.m.
      • 32S-53S-33M-64S-63$-51 — Nacbracs
        Taper_Mike -- Tuesday, 17 January 2012, at 9:21 p.m.
    • What would you do with this 51? **ROLLOUT**
      neilkaz -- Tuesday, 17 January 2012, at 5:38 p.m.
      • What would you do with this 51? **ROLLOUT**
        Michael Depreli -- Tuesday, 17 January 2012, at 8:08 p.m.
    • What would you do with this 51? **ROLLOUT**
      Ben E. -- Tuesday, 17 January 2012, at 6:59 p.m.
      • What would you do with this 51? **ROLLOUT**
        Nack Ballard -- Tuesday, 17 January 2012, at 7:37 p.m.