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Position of the Day 04-03-26 - Cubey Doobie Doo

Posted By: Chuck Bower
Date: Monday, 6 April 2026, at 4:53 p.m.

In Response To: Position of the Day 04-03-26 - Cubey Doobie Doo (Stick)

It's easy to see ML's, but does White have a Take? With perfect closeout bearoff structure (spares on 4-,5-, and 6-pts) White will win about 5% (~1% more if she had more checkers on the acepoint). Note that Blue doesn't always reach the perfect bearoff structure when accomplishing a closeout. There are some freak gammon wins for White as well, which lowers the takepoint from ~22% to maybe ~20-21%. So when there isn't a closeout, if White can win about 1 out of 6 games, possibly closer to 1 in 7 then this is a Take.

Knowing when to recube as White is very important here, but XG (during a rollout) should be good at that. I think I'm going to make this my weekly "play from position" problem to hopefully learn more about that. In the meantime:

R+T

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