Ok guys. Someone unveiled the trap.
The idea was twofold :
Part 1 : to illustrate on a psychological side, how players at all levels are focussed on either strategical or tactical moves or both, but are globally blind. It is true that, usually, tactical moves don’t involve the total of checkers in play, but only a partial amount locally, when strategical moves highlight interaction of the checkers distribution on the whole board.
I guess it happened quite a few to the readers to start and complete a game in a tournament (not in a chouette) with only 14 checkers. I have never heard of a game played with 16 checkers but if someone knows a story.
Part 2 : Back to the fake position. If we assume that this position is in between these two,
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Obviously, the additional spare on the 8pt put Blue in Double territory, but does the 4th spare (in the fake position) on the 13pt add some value to the Blue equity ?
No doubt, if Blue can start a blitz, but unclear in the case of an exchange of hits are turning bad for Blue.
As to the take, it seems still a take, maybe less confortable.