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Blundering against an acepoint anchor

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Thursday, 11 October 2012, at 10:43 p.m.

In Response To: Blundering against an acepoint anchor (Michael Nielsen)

These positions always confuse me. White's timing for an ace-point game is fine, so there's not much point in trying to prime her or force her off the anchor. We want to bear in as safely as possible. Towards that end, it's a priority to fill in the gap in our board, but should we fill it in right away with 6/3(3)? Not sure. We could slot it, say with 13/4 6/3, but that seems to give too many shots. White has enough forward structure that she could win going forwards after a hit. We could also play safe with 13/4 5/2, but if we're going to play 5/2 anyway then I'd rather play 6/3(3) than 13/4. Finally we could try clearing the outside points with 8/5(2) 7/4(2), giving White 66 to hit. This doesn't do much to fill in our 3pt but we could get away without ever filling it in.

Does the score matter? I think that we basically just don't want to get hit so I don't think the score matters that much.

Still have no clue but I'm inclined to play 6/3(3). After that I'm not sure whether to give White a 54 with 13/10 or to bury another checker with 5/2. Probably leaving ourselves a spare later is more important, so I'll try 13/10 6/3(3).

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