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One of my favorite motifs: Attack or prime?

Posted By: ah_clem
Date: Wednesday, 5 October 2016, at 12:39 a.m.

In Response To: One of my favorite motifs: Attack or prime? (Timothy Chow)

One of my rules of thumb is to always consider hitting two. It's not always right, but it's always worth a good look.

Here, it distracts white from raining checkers on top of blue's runner's head. Is that enough?

Blue has eleven in the zone and a double hit means that white probably can't point on his runner and blue will have a good shot at the blot on the nine most of the time. And then there are the four dancing rolls, and the 20 rolls that leave white with one checker on the bar.

OTOH, eleven rolls send a checker back, and then there's the problem of the buried checker on the ace. And the solid four prime with two stuck behind it looks very strong.

My gut is to make the permanent asset of the bar point. I'll go with that.

13/7 8/7

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