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Great shootin', Tex

Posted By: Casper Van der Tak
Date: Monday, 25 March 2019, at 8:46 p.m.

In Response To: Great shootin', Tex (Ian Terry)

Nice problem.

I see three main contenders: 24/22 13/12*/11*, 24/22 5/4(2) and 13/12*/11* 5/4*(2). Between the first 2, the first must be stronger because it gains more time to escape, because it eliminates all White's outfield checkers, and because the 4 point is better blocked. The relevance of the last two reasons is that if White enters quickly, he will more often crack. Look at 44 and 11 vs 55 and 11. Going for the switch is that White will have fewer numbers that will immediately anchor, but that consideration is not huge.

The third play, the hoover play, is counter-intuitive to me because it does not anchor at the edge of the 5-prime. I would not make the play because I cannot clearly see the game plan (for the other two escape, for this one the game plan appears more hybrid between priming and escaping), but could well imagine that it is strong and would often get Blue back behind a 5-prime.

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