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Sunday Afternoon w/Georges Seurat
Posted By: Rich Munitz In Response To: Sunday Afternoon w/Georges Seurat (Stick)
Date: Sunday, 4 January 2009, at 9:04 p.m.
I've learned long ago how takable a cube is being behind a 6-prime when you have good counter-priming potential. I often feel these positions are either not good enough to double, or a pass.
Here however, blue's counter-priming potential is seriously weakened by his spare on his 4 point. Furthermore, white has 4 really nasty shots at the 11 point and a 4-3 to anchor on the 5 is pretty much fatal. Anything that successfully escapes a checker without blue making the 5 point a market loser. So blue is compromised, loses some gammons and there are big market losers for sure. So double seems clear. Does blue win enough to take? I am constantly flustered by the difficulty of extracting checkers like this while trying to hold a prime. And I really enjoy how much my opponents squirm when they just can't get the job done and the cube goes back in their face at just the right moment. I'm taking this.
My sense is that it would not take much to turn this position into a no-double. Take that defective checker from the 4 point and move it back to the 11 point, putting it back where it wants to be and eliminating the disaster hit numbers and I'd bet white can't double this yet.
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