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Blue on roll, cube action? | |||||
My rule is when my opponent has three or more checkers on the deuce point it's time to double. It may be early sometimes, but how to win with such a structure is always a challenge. It is also worth considering the strength of a player who gets into such poor positions.
Nice comments, though I have a bone to pick with the last sentence. I think the correlation is less than people imagine. (I refer to the notion of walking up to a board and judging the strength of one or both players purely on the score and/or position reached, not to the quality of play that one might have observed up to that point.)
The way I heard it, XGR++ was making its debut in a tournament, even dressed up in a funny sombrero. It was playing White in the position below and rolled 65:
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White to play 65 | |||||
After White played 17/6 above, Blue made his 5pt with 44, White rolled 66 and played 13/7(2) 8/2(2), and Blue made his 4pt with 11, reaching the position below:
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White to play 61 | |||||
Above, White rolled 61 and played 17/10 (what else?), Blue rolled 21, hitting with 16/15* 16/14, White rolled 61 and played bar/24 8/2, Blue rolled 41 and played 14/9. Finally, White rolled 63, playing 8/2 6/3 (what else?), reaching Tim's cube-action position diagrammed at the top of this post.
...-656-44P-66O-11P- 61D-21r-61C-419- 63A-C
Nack