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Old experts did better on this one
Posted By: Marty Storer In Response To: Old experts did better on this one (Chuck Bower)
Date: Wednesday, 3 September 2008, at 10:07 p.m.
Re the next set of problems: I recall Robertie weighing in, 1980s, perhaps in the very magazine, to what was probably not an opening reply (roll was 62) but may have been. (Actually the problem 62 roll very likely came in some position occurring after an early 5-point slot, with opponent somehow having a builder on the 9 point, so the choice would have been to cover the 5 point or hit on the 16.) Robertie said "Only a hopeless player would consider the hit," by which I seem to remember he meant 24/16*. Someone with a German-sounding surname wanted to hit, but most if not all other experts, possibly including Goulding, did not?
My memory, despite Chuck's opinion that it's elephantine--even I evaluated it that way as recently as five or six years ago--is really going west.
Or is it east? I have a problem, have had it ever since I was a lad, that I call East-West Dyslexia: I have to think a minute in order to figure out which direction is east and which is west, and whether I should get on the highway going east or going west. It's not at all full-blown dyslexia--doesn't happen on my commonly traversed driving rote-routes, and it doesn't always take me as much as a minute to figure out what's going on--but it's a curious thing, inconsistent with the rest of my mental performance or non-performance, and I can't explain it. Is there a doctor in the house?
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