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Instructive Fourth Roll 63

Posted By: svilo
Date: Saturday, 24 March 2012, at 4:49 p.m.

In Response To: Instructive Fourth Roll 63 (Paul Weaver)

Actually blue is behind in the race. He can leap all the way or he can run halfway and play down R and r? Slotting barpoints is giving one's own gun to the enemy.

When we compare R and r: The danger of being hit on the 16pt. is quite diminished by the fact that many fours would be good to her nevertheless (42, 44, 46, 45). Even when hit on the 16 she would do it with the last surplus on the midpoint.

We would love a skirmish as we have the gold point and we are behind. A skirmish means it will be on his territory and it hurts him more.

If we move 1 or 2 of our checkers from mid to 8 or 6 points. The position changes and R becomes gradually the favorite, because we have race, position and THREATS with the surpluses on the 8 and 6. In this case the cube would be so near, that we would not want to give her shots at escaping the cube...

In general, perhaps similar positions would be answered by Magriel (when in doubt) about bold and safe play.

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