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Seeking ideas/rules for a new variation of BG

Posted By: smcrtorchs
Date: Tuesday, 15 January 2013, at 9:50 p.m.

In Response To: Seeking ideas/rules for a new variation of BG (Mr Majestyk)

Any new variant would need some play-testing. It is not clear to me if already from the first moves there is a dominant strategy.

1) Try to form N points before the opponent can enter N*2 checkers. If that succeeds then opponent cannot enter more checkers from the bar. 2) Then the player with the more points can enter all his remaining checkers, can easily prime the opponents checkers and force the opponent to crash in front of his prime. 3) Then he can do many things, but very easily he can also jump his crashed opponent and roll frontwards his prime until he reaches the bear off phase. 4) At the start- middle of the bear off phase the winning side will start having fewer points and then the losing side will be able to enter new checkers in order to save the BG

Of course this strategy might not succeed in every game, but I believe it would happen often enough to force some rule tweaks.

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