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Ed thought about this...
Posted By: Coolrey In Response To: Ed thought about this... (Keene)
Date: Monday, 23 February 2015, at 4:55 p.m.
I sat waiting for Ed to calculate this position out, and I knew it was just Ed's way. As I had little to do while waiting I noted that he had 17 minutes on his clock when he started and below 10 minutes left when he got done.
Near the end I said for the sake of audio that it would be best for me if he took all this time, and then chose not to redouble, which he did. Then he looked at the next position a variant of 3 rolls v 3 rolls for a moment before correctly deciding not to rewhip. Then he instantly doubled me to 8 in the two roll position which was, surprisingly enough, still wrong.
We chatted amicably after and I gave him my big picture view of such situations:
You will get a mild warm and fuzzy feeling if you redouble and win the match in positions like this... But you will be projectile vomiting if you do it and the guy gets lucky and steals the match from you..
So, the question is this: Do the ends justify the means?
For me, I hate the projectile vomiting a LOT, so I usually don't double.
Secondarily, I want to send a strong message to my opponent that he is NOT going to get lucky and steal a match from me in ONE game... If he gets lucky he will still be losing and we will continue from there. Psychologically this makes me more comfortable OTB, and possibly can have a negative effect on my opponent, I think. But of course that is just me, and other players have different ideas about these things!
Meanwhile you have to know your customers, and those mentioning that his redouble was good against a human because they might pass... Were not being realistic here. You should give someone capable of passing a chance to pass and lose equity, but I am not now and was not then one of those guys... So you can discount that strategy entirely until you are playing an unknown quantity, tyvm.
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