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Hitting too risky?

Posted By: Jim Stutz
Date: Monday, 29 April 2024, at 6:01 p.m.

In Response To: Position of the Day 04-10-24 - Hit/No Hit? (rambiz)

If Blue hits with the ace, even if White is lucky enough to hit back from the bar she will still have four checkers stuck behind Blue's formidable, well-timed front structure. Tough for White to counter-prime, or prosecute a credible blitz attack on her side of the board, with no 5 point and only eleven checkers immediately available on offense. Sure, there is still some turnaround risk after a hit by Blue, but White's counter-attack will be necessarily hamstrung by the increasingly urgent need to escape a 4-prime barricade with her four stuck checkers. Blue's potential reward for bold play here is more gammons, given 4 opponent checkers back vs. 3. Seems to be worth the risk in this position.

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