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Re: match play

Posted By: Stick
Date: Tuesday, 2 January 2007, at 5:48 a.m.

In Response To: match play (Iancho Hristov)

I will be quite honest (and it's no secret) I'm not big on match play. Not that I don't enjoy them, but I would love longer matches, I've never been able to get into 3-5-7 pt. matches where any luckbox who can play decently can beat you. I let it aggrivate me too much. Anyway...

I memorized -5 -5 and in. It's not that much memorization, anything outside of that is similar to money play in most circumstances and common sense will lead you quite a ways. [things like knowing when to double aggressively if you're trailing and there's a sniff of gammon in the air or when you're leading sometimes it may be better to take a roll than give up cube ownership, etc...]

I think if you want to study 'special scores' the best thing to do is either play online [if you play online for money] or against your favorite bot, play DMP games til your heart is content. After that move to the next score that interests you, maybe you trailing -4 -3 or -4 -2 and notice how aggressively you should be using the cube. Just some suggestions, I'm sure others who are better match players will have some ideas.

Stick

Messages In This Thread

• match play
  Iancho Hristov -- Monday, 1 January 2007, at 12:06 p.m.
  • Re: match play
    DC-Ohio -- Monday, 1 January 2007, at 3:25 p.m.
  • Re: match play
    Stick -- Tuesday, 2 January 2007, at 5:48 a.m.
  • Re: match play
    rew -- Tuesday, 2 January 2007, at 7:00 p.m.