A couple things to keep in mind for plays that might involve 23(2). I think it's a hard play for us humans to make in general. Often when we scooch up like that we butt right into the opponent's 8pt. It also in our eyes makes escaping harder as there's no lover's leap to completely free a checker.
- It freezes the opponent's builders on the 8pt if the 8pt is stripped (as with our position at hand) Now not only can those builders not be used to make inner board points without leaving a shot but they can't be used to make the bar point either. That is noteworthy in a lot of positions.
- It is a better anchor. Any way you slice it generally the 23pt anchor will lose fewer gammons than the 24pt anchor.
Or why for the third best move, spreading the checkers like 11/10, 6/5 is not a good idea
Perhaps it is a combination of things like leaving the [63] shot and that that builder, to be used, needs to be used with a six and our sixes are kind of needed on the other side of the board? If we are lucky enough to jettison a back checker now we have an extra reachable blot floating around.
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| XGID=-b---BF-D--Ab-a--b-ccb--B-:1:-1:1:11:0:0:3:0:10 | |||||
| Blue to play 11 | |||||