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another position from Vegas--still don't have a good reason for the right play

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Friday, 27 November 2015, at 5:22 p.m.

In Response To: another position from Vegas--still don't have a good reason for the right play (Casper Van der Tak)

Casper wrote:

Getting ready to clear the 5 and 6 is the safest in terms of not getting hit. I think so much has been proven by bot calculations (Woolsey, long ago?)

Woolsey's article is here. Even if all you care about is not getting hit, getting ready to clear the 5 and 6 isn't necessarily optimal. See for example Problem 2 in Woolsey's article. One also has to judge the spare distributions.

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• another position from Vegas
  Phil Simborg -- Thursday, 26 November 2015, at 6:42 p.m.
  • another position from Vegas
    John Gamalielson -- Thursday, 26 November 2015, at 7:01 p.m.
    • another position from Vegas--still don't have a good reason for the right play
      Phil Simborg -- Friday, 27 November 2015, at 2:24 p.m.
      • another position from Vegas--still don't have a good reason for the right play
        Timothy Chow -- Friday, 27 November 2015, at 3:06 p.m.
        • another position from Vegas--still don't have a good reason for the right play
          Casper Van der Tak -- Friday, 27 November 2015, at 3:26 p.m.
          • another position from Vegas--still don't have a good reason for the right play
            Timothy Chow -- Friday, 27 November 2015, at 5:22 p.m.
            • another position from Vegas--still don't have a good reason for the right play
              Casper Van der Tak -- Friday, 27 November 2015, at 6:08 p.m.
        • White with closed board, RO
          Nack Ballard -- Friday, 27 November 2015, at 5:36 p.m.
      • another position from Vegas--still don't have a good reason for the right play
        Stick -- Friday, 27 November 2015, at 4:51 p.m.
      • another position from Vegas--still don't have a good reason for the right play
        neilkaz -- Saturday, 28 November 2015, at 12:37 a.m.
  • another position from Vegas
    Timothy Chow -- Thursday, 26 November 2015, at 11:13 p.m.
    • another position from Vegas
      Casper Van der Tak -- Friday, 27 November 2015, at 8:11 a.m.
  • another position from Vegas
    neilkaz -- Friday, 27 November 2015, at 1:13 a.m.
  • another position from Vegas
    Mick Z -- Friday, 27 November 2015, at 5:32 a.m.
  • another position from Vegas
    Sean Garber -- Friday, 27 November 2015, at 12:26 p.m.
  • another position from Vegas
    Chuck Bower -- Friday, 27 November 2015, at 4:53 p.m.
  • Bot Info and Variants
    Nack Ballard -- Friday, 27 November 2015, at 7:02 p.m.