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Interesting recube @ -3-8

Posted By: Stick
Date: Thursday, 4 January 2018, at 9:33 p.m.

In Response To: Interesting recube @ -3-8 (Carlo Melzi)

I would double even a much weaker player since (1) he will probably pass anyway and (2) if he takes, he will probably make mistakes after hitting

As UBK mentioned, this is such a simple position the mistakes after hitting won't amount to much.

How do you know who not to double? You will know once you do this in your life and you still aren't happy after they make the *wrong* decision. What I mean is this...

I had a position once playing a much weaker opponent at a very lopsided score similar to this one where I could recube and put the match on the line for both of us once my opponent recubed. I didn't want to double and give this person any hope of winning the match so I waited, and waited until I was sure it was a pass. Then, I doubled. The opponent took. I immediately felt like shit!

Yes, even though I waited and it was technically in the pass zone at the point I did double (I checked later to make sure of course) I still wasn't happy when the opponent took. You should be happy when the opponent takes a pass but given the skill differential and how much match the opponent would have to crawl back from given the score deficit I was still kicking myself.

The thing is, especially playing someone like myself, an opponent who is clearly weaker, 3 PR difference or more, will look at these hopeless situations as just that, hopeless. They drop and they're down 1a 8a C?! They don't want to try to grind back from that. To crawl their way back into the match. To get outplayed by you and rely on the dice to get lucky game after game after game after game.

If you turn the cube in such situations it is their glimmer of hope. They now have a chance to win this match right here and now and they'll take it. Even if they think they shouldn't they still will because it's the only doable route they see to winning the match.

So how do you know who you want to redouble and who you don't? It's easy for me now, I ask that feeling in my gut how he'd really feel if I doubled and the opponent took even if I think/know it's a pass. If my gut starts to vomit as it did that day in my example above, I hold.

Stick

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