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Common Errors?

Posted By: Jason Lee
Date: Monday, 5 October 2009, at 4:32 a.m.

In Response To: Common Errors? (Rich Munitz)

I'm sure I'll eventually think of many others, but one that immediately pops into mind is in the bearoff.

Here's one that's easily applied in the bearoff. If you roll an ace, and you have a checker on the one point, it is ALWAYS correct to just bear that checker off. I see a lot of people do shuffling plays or cute gap-filling plays or desperation "stack 'em up to hope for a big double" plays.

One way to think about it is that wastage consists of bearing checkers off "farther" than they should go -- optimal bearoff puts checkers onto the "zero" point. The only way a checker on the ace point can NOT be borne off with wastage is to bear it off with an ace.

JLee

Messages In This Thread

• Common Errors?
  Bill Riles -- Monday, 5 October 2009, at 2:57 a.m.
  • Common Errors?
    Timothy Chow -- Monday, 5 October 2009, at 3:28 a.m.
    • Common Errors?
      Bill Riles -- Monday, 5 October 2009, at 4:19 a.m.
      • Common Errors?
        Rich Munitz -- Monday, 5 October 2009, at 4:36 a.m.
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      Chuck Bower -- Tuesday, 6 October 2009, at 11:58 p.m.
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    jm -- Monday, 5 October 2009, at 4:02 a.m.
  • Common Errors?
    Rich Munitz -- Monday, 5 October 2009, at 4:18 a.m.
    • Common Errors?
      Jason Lee -- Monday, 5 October 2009, at 4:32 a.m.
      • Common Errors?
        Bill Riles -- Monday, 5 October 2009, at 4:42 a.m.
      • Common Errors?
        Rich Munitz -- Monday, 5 October 2009, at 4:57 a.m.
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          Matt Cohn-Geier -- Monday, 5 October 2009, at 5:07 a.m.
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            Rich Munitz -- Monday, 5 October 2009, at 5:27 a.m.
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              Matt Cohn-Geier -- Monday, 5 October 2009, at 6:02 a.m.
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                Stick -- Monday, 5 October 2009, at 6:25 p.m.
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        Bob Koca -- Monday, 5 October 2009, at 6:23 a.m.
        • Common Errors?
          Jason Lee -- Monday, 5 October 2009, at 1:12 p.m.
          • Common Errors?
            Chuck Bower -- Monday, 5 October 2009, at 5:01 p.m.
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    Phil Simborg -- Monday, 5 October 2009, at 3:16 p.m.
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      Bill Riles -- Monday, 5 October 2009, at 3:23 p.m.
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    dlevy -- Monday, 5 October 2009, at 4:58 p.m.
    • Common Errors?
      Rich Munitz -- Monday, 5 October 2009, at 7:15 p.m.
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    John O'Hagan -- Monday, 5 October 2009, at 11:46 p.m.